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Is it possible that she is afraid? This is the age when children usually start to be afraid of things, and especially of darkness. Ours did too, although it was not so problematic as your case. So try to discover the underlying reason. If it is fear, first of all, if her room is too dark, you should install a night light. This helps to gradually make her ...

A lot of parents hate giving up that extra hour in the evenings, but the best way to get your son to wake up an hour later is to put him to bed an hour later. 15 month-olds just plain don't need as much sleep as 5 month-olds. The great and terrible thing about parenting is that as soon as you get one part down, it changes. Other than that, we generally ...

Our son was the same. Have you tried using a night light? We started with one that was rather bright, but not so bad that it would ruin his sleep. Then after a while we moved to a smaller one, in the corner of his room. The whole process took weeks, and included rewards for nights spent with only the night light.

In this circumstance I am a fan of the idea of a "sleep reminder," which I first read on an internet bulletin board. A sleep reminder is something that will stop your baby from playing and indicate that it is nighttime. A sleep reminder has two related goals: Get your child to stop playing and sleep. Continue to promote independent sleep, if that is a ...

You could give the little one a wind-up torch, to have nearby when he wakes up in the night. If you charge it before he goes to sleep, he can use it when he wakes up. A torch has the specific job of dispelling the darkness - rather different to toys which just light up when turned on. This distinction might have some psychological value.

Most babies have growth spurts at 7-10 days, 2-3 weeks, 4-6 weeks, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 9 months approximately. I don't think it's comfort feeding since, when you put her down without feeding her, she wakes up again a few minutes later. I'd be more inclined to believe that she's either gearing up for or in the middle of a growth spurt and ...

Make sure there's no reason for him to wake up. The temperature is suitable, and he's tucked in well. His blanket and/or sleeping sack covers him and isn't tangled around him. The room is totally dark, except perhaps a small nightlight. Your home is as quiet as you can reasonably make it. Perhaps add ambient sounds? Our toddler also had a period of ...

Our youngest wanted a light so we got a teddy bear that glows gently for ten minutes before fading out and turning itself off. This was bright enough to keep her happy - she could cuddle it close, dim enough that it didn't disturb her sister, who was in the same room, and didn't require us to come and turn it off. If she wakes in the night, a quick ...

To add to the above excellent answer. About middle of the night wake ups: Go to her and have her try to verbalize why she woke up. This is the time when nightmares start. Also try to think what was introduced to her that day that could, in a child's mind, become a nightmare. Then come up with a solution to her problem. For example, my 4-year-old woke ...

If he is crying anyway cry it out seems to be the way to go. When he awakens, check his diaper, if he is cold, etc but don't look at him, don't come right out and snuggle or rock him and don't make eye contact and don't say anything. You have checked and he is okay so let him go back to sleep on his own. The other thing I would check is sleep tremors. He ...

Lots of GREAT advice here....just wanted to add: What we do with our 3 year old son, based on what we read in an article, when he has a nightmare: we tell him, "It's over now," as opposed to "it was only a bad dream." Saying it was only a dream creates a barrier between the two of you -- the child isn't old enough to fully understand that you can take the ...

Most of the work you will need to do for this is during the day. Lots of tummy time - at least as often as he eats in the day. When he is on his tummy hold a toy in front of him and bring it around in his periferal vision until his head tilts so far back that it flips his body over on his back. This will help him learn how to flip and get used to the feeling ...

Somewhat counter intuitively, I seriously recommend you look at his daytime sleep. The kids at that age need a solid - up to 2h - daytime nap. If they don't get that, it can really impact their night time. This was our experience - twice. It takes a bit to wrap your head round, I admit! I'm not suggesting this is an authoritative guide but has some food ...

There are a variety of clocks available for toddlers which signal to them when it is okay to get out of bed. The idea is similar to what Morah Hochman suggested, but is built into the clock. Many of the clocks also provide ambient sounds and other sleep aides besides indicating that it's okay to get out of bed. A friend of mine used the Okay to Wake clock ...

Have you got an established bedtime routine? My daughter was difficult until she learned key phrases "8 o clock" - "bedtime" - and "sleep sleep milk milk" or "bed bed". Sometimes if she is ill, or overexcited there may be protest, but normally she will walk to her bedside herself. Myself or mummy tuck her in, give her the tous (saying there names), and she ...

Why Short Naps Happen Inability to Handle Partial Wakings Your child is waking up after reaching the light sleep portion of a sleep cycle. If your 4 month old learns to fall asleep independently through some form of sleep training - the level of crying sleep training needs to involve can be up to your family - then it may solve this problem. The drive to ...

As long as this pattern persists for a week or so then it is most likely the 3 month growth spurt. Continue to feed on demand until you are sure it's a problem. However if it continues to persist then she is probably beginning to reverse cycle. This can happen because her primary caregiver has recently returned to work (common around this age) or because ...

It's possible that this is just a sleep regression - you yourself mentioned the "eight month crisis" (sometimes known as the 9 month sleep regression, but the timing varies by kid) which is a common time for bad sleep. With these "the only way out is through;" it's quite possible that no matter what you do the wakings will continue until the underlying ...

At that age, napping is normal. It takes a bit longer for longer cycles to start to embed themselves. At this age you just need to work around your baby's sleep/nap cycles. Not fun for the parents, but that's just part of the time investment in having babies. Don't try and push her naps into consolidated longer sleeps - her stomach is very small, so once ...

It seems to me the baby is not aware that it's sleep time. Using some kind of a ritual or routine every night before going to sleep and a ritual or routine for waking up in the morning should help. For example: Using music - How about playing relaxing tunes at night while dimming the lights and rocking the baby ... every night routinely... And playing happy ...

We are in the middle of a similar situation with our three-year-old, where she is scared of the dark and it's impacting going to sleep. Two things seem to be working: (1) Since she's mentioned being scared of monsters hiding in the dark, we let a cat (we have quite a few ;> ) in her room to 'check things out.' Turns out that monsters don't come into ...

Whenever my son just suddenly wake up on a certain hour of the night/early morning, i normally move him/sort of wake him an hour before the waking time. lets say you say he wakes up 5 in the morning, ill wake up 4ish to just move him. that way i somehow disrupt the waking habit. i do this and adjust the time until i can get it back to the normal waking ...

I don't know whether there are any formal techniques but there are lots of methods that might (or might not) work. I don't think you can get an active toddler to "get it" right away; you might need to go through several methods in sequence to achieve increasing levels of calmness. The goal would always be to make your child understand that she is safe and ...

I wouldn't worry about which way he is sleeping, if he gets into that possition on his own it is safe for him to sleep that way. As far as what to do, he is not crying because he is having trouble falling asleep, he is crying because he is stuck so by all means go and flip him over. (I am a big beleiver in crying yourself to sleep, but in this case...) Be ...

Current guidelines recommend putting your baby to sleep on his back, but it's okay if he flips over on his own. I personally haven't been completely comfortable until my children could reliably flip over again to their back on their own. However, if he's not comfortable on his tummy, an hour and a half is way too long to let a baby cry for "training ...