Questions tagged [sleep-training]
When and how to assist your children with proper sleep habits.
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How to approach of a child suffering from a potential sleep disorder?
My son is 17 months old with a regular routine in a nuclear family.
0700 awake
0745 in nursery
Full day of nursery
1730 pick up from nursery
1800 relaxing time with mum and dad
1830 bath time
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How do I help my 4 month old nap longer?
My daughter is 4 1/2 months old and she only naps for 30-45 minutes at a time. She wakes up happy, but she is tired again after a little over an hour.
I know some babies are naturally short nappers. ...
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Help With Sleep Training
Our son is about to turn 3 months but he is yet to sleep on his own (as in we put him to sleep, put him down on the crib then he sleeps for few hours). He only sleeps when he is carried during the day,...
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Do we NEED to help a baby learn how to self-sooth? And how long can it take?
Before our girls were born, I told my husband that I didn't want to go through "crying it out" because I knew I wouldn't be comfortable with it. At the time he agreed with me.
However, after close to ...
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Having difficulty putting 6 month old to sleep at night
Context/background: My 6 month old usually wakes around 7.30 to 8am in the morning. He then has a morning feed and plays till around 9 to 9.30 before his morning bath, and then has a short morning nap ...
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1 Year Old Wakes Up Screaming Multiple Times A Night
My niece just turned 1 year old and she still does not sleep through the night. She wakes up numerous times (about every 1.5 - 2 hours) throughout the night and proceeds to scream very loudly until ...
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Are there techniques for sleep training that actually teach a child how to sleep?
I finally found some time to read the books my mother borrowed for me about sleep training. I was sorely disappointed: neither book mentioned anything about actually teaching the child how to fall ...
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Toddler going to sleep very late
I am having some trouble with getting my daughter to sleep at a decent time each evening. She shows signs that she's tired around 7-8pm, so I take her to bed, give her some milk, read a story etc. ...
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How do you get your kid to lay in the crib?
My son refuses to lay down in the crib and drink from his bottle before going to sleep.
He gets back up, and I put him back down; but he never gives up. How do we get him to sleep in the crib and ...
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How can we get our son to stop sleeping in our bed?
My son is 2 years old and he sleeps with us in our bed. We have tried every possible way of getting him to leave our bed at night, and I'm getting nervous about him growing out of it. My wife and I no ...
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Toddler requires Mom or Dad to stay in the room to fall asleep
My toddler refuses to go to sleep without my wife or myself sitting or lying next to his bed.
Background - My son is about 2.5 years old. His birthday is in October. He has been sleeping in a toddler ...
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Preparing quality bedtime stories
When I was a child I enjoyed my mom's bedtime stories so much, and even now I can still remember some of them. Now it's my turn to pass such a wonderful experience down to my daughter. However I am ...
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How do dealing with infant flipping over during sleep training?
We are sleep training our 4 month old. Its working great except that now he is flipping over to him belly and then he starts crying.
Should we go in and flip him back? Should we leave him to figure ...
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How to stop our 2-year-old's bedtime tantrums and make her sleep through the night?
Our daughter is approaching 2 and has consistently had issues with bedtime.
At the mention of bedtime, she will regularly start crying (but still follows me upstairs to bed). In general, one of us ...
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How to help a 2 year old go to bed alone
I am writing here because I have tried everything there is. I am 22 weeks pregnant and my 2 yo (he will turn 2 on the 12th of October) weights 17 kg so I cannot handle him easily.
So here it is: he'...
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Is it possible to train a 3-month-old breastfed baby to sleep through the night? And if yes, how?
My wife is breastfeeding our 3-month-old baby. The baby will wake up every 2-3 hours to be fed. So she won't be sleeping through the night.
I wonder whether it is possible to train a 3-month-old ...
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1-month baby crying when on floor
I am a first time father with 1-month old DS. My wife has been exclusively breastfeeding, 20 mins on each breast every two hours. Currently both my wife and the baby are on a medication because they ...
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Sleep Training giggles
We've been working on the Sleep Lady Shuffle with our 15-month old. We're on night three which means we're still next to the crib.
We put our son down almost asleep. He's calm and relaxed. As soon as ...
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When to transition to letting the baby fall asleep on its own? Is my baby ready for sleep training?
Our daughter is 2 months old. As of right now, we have a pretty well working routine of putting the baby to sleep. Bath, lights out, long feeding, then falling asleep on our hands, then falling asleep ...
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What to do when all nothing else works to put baby to sleep
Our daughter is 4 months old, and over the past month she's been giving us hell with every single nap, and her night sleep is getting worse and worse.
With every day that passes, it seems that every ...
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How to help a toddler go to sleep on their own?
Our toddler is 2 and half, and has just started to become difficult at bedtimes.
We have always given her milk and held her until she goes to sleep. Once she goes off, she usually sleeps very well. ...
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Toddler never sleeps through the night
My toddler boy is 2.5yrs old.
He never sleeps throughout the night.
He has a steady bed-time pattern:
9:00pm : Dinner (with Cartoons)
9:30pm : Shower w/ Mom
9:45pm: Simple Play
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Sleep-Training my toddler
I started the Dana Obelman sleep training program and am a bit stuck - the training involves sitting in a chair and every 3?days moving the chair closer to the door until you are finally out of the ...
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How to make toddler stay in his own bed at night
We have a 2 and a half year old who has started sleeping in a bed a few months ago instead of a cot. Over the past few weeks we're experiencing some issues and we're out of ideas.
The night always ...
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