Questions tagged [sleep-training]
When and how to assist your children with proper sleep habits.
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Seeking advice, guidance and tips for behavioral improvement
I have two daughters of age 4 and 2. I still doing breastfeeding to both of them by hoping better developed child. First you can comment on about it. The one main thing about I like to ask about is ...
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Not having continuous sleep in the night
My daughter is 19 months old and does not sleep continuously at night. She wakes up twice or thrice and sits down, sometimes asking for milk. Sometimes she wakes up around 4 AM - 4:30 AM and does not ...
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5-month old daughter's sleep pattern problems
I have a 5-month old daughter who started out as a great sleeper. By 2-3 weeks old, she would sleep 5 hours, wake, eat, sleep about 4 hours, wake, eat, sleep. We had the day/night thing figured out ...
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Crying during bed-time routine?
First time parents. We are sleep training our four month old daughter using CIO (full extinction), out of necessity as both of us need to work during the day. We started about 2 weeks ago, and so far ...
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How to fix 21 month sleep regression
First, common reasons for sleep regression for kids 18-24 months:
Night terrors
Separation Anxiety
Molars coming in
Disrupted sleeping pattern (vacation/out of house)
Developmental milestones
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21mo escaping crib and sleep regression
So my little dude has been having a bit of trouble going to bed for about a week. Instead of just plopping down and nodding off when we place him in the crib, he would whimper and whinny for a few ...
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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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How to influence son's sleep cycle
My son is 9 years old. Normal in all respects healthwise and active.
The challenge is that once or twice a week he wakes at 5:30 AM (occasionally as early as 4:30) and will wake me up and wants me ...
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Child's sleep schedule vs Parents'
I'm trying to learn the do's and dont's of parenting for when my baby comes along, by watching other parents. I'm able to learn a lesson or form a theory on most things except this one area:
The baby ...
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1-year old has trouble sleeping at night
I have a 1-year old son that has a lot of trouble sleeping at night. From the day he was born until about 10 months old he had to be rocked to sleep. At 10 months old we sleep trained him using Ferber ...
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How to make 4-month-old fall asleep during the day and nap longer?
I am looking for some practical tips as to how to get my four month old to fall asleep, and once asleep, how to get him to nap longer.
When I try to put him down, it seems as if he is looking for ...
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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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5 year old. Still needs us to fall asleep
We never successfully got our child to fall asleep on their own. We would always have to be in the room. Now she's five and still needs us in the room. We need to either hold her hand or run her back. ...
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Seven month baby won't sleep or nap for short period
My little one, has been very much disturbing lately as i work from home and my mrs is house wife. We recently shifted to our own place and bought my baby a lot of toys (although he had many before), ...
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How to train infants to sleep in bed and in parent’s arms
From 1st month of my baby, we practised him to sleep using cradle - now he is 4 months old.
Even if he is tired and sleepy, he refuses to sleep in bed (co-sleeping) and needs only cradle. We’re ...
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How to teach 7 month old twins naps after lunch?
We have twin girls, 7 month of corrected age (premies). Both get tired and cranky after lunch.
We have read that kids need regular schedules and that we should teach them to take a nap in their bed ...
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Baby kicks and wakes himself
This is a strange one for us, especially me. My 3 1/2 month old has disturbed sleep, as he kicks and moves his hands while becoming stiff, and wakes himself up.
We tried wrapping him up but he is ...
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Is the sleep training over after they sleep for half an hour?
We are sleep training our 4 month old twins and my question is when I put them down for a nap and they cry themselves to sleep they then awaken within a half hour, should I continue the sleep training ...
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Sleep training and consistency
Our son is 7 months old, and as he frequently still needs our presence to go to sleep at night, we've decided that it's time for sleep training. The problem isn't that he needs our presence - the ...
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How early should I start learning my baby bedtime routine? [duplicate]
my baby is 2 month old. I want know when I should start "bedtime routine" ?
and also when make him sleep in his room ?
now he sleep next to me, is it correct to take him sleep on his bed or should I ...
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What to do with a child that won't sleep, to the detriment of their day?
There are many questions on here asking about sleepless children but my wife and I are starting to come to our wits-end and none of the advice we've found (here or otherwise) seems to fit our ...
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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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A three week old baby refuses to sleep in his crib
We have a 3 week old sweet baby boy. We got used that for the first few months there is very little order in his feeding/sleep time, but during night time, he wakes up to eat (my wife's breastfeeding ...
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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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Does sleep training make sense for a baby with intermittent sleep difficulty?
We are pretty lucky as far as sleep goes. We have a 6 month old who generally sleeps through the night.
...except that when going down to sleep (unless she's completely wiped out) she cries and we ...
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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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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 to handle baby waking up while sleep training
I've read that at 3 months you can start to try and train your child to sleep through the night. My child starts squirming and making little sounds (not crying) in the middle of the night still. I've ...
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Ferber method advice
My son is 9 months old and we started the Ferber method a few nights ago to hopefully eliminate the # of wake times throughout the night. The first night we started with the 3 min as our first wait ...
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Sleep training while teething
Our son has experienced some sleep training... regression. I don't think that's the right word for it given the circumstances, but here goes.
We started sleep training with him when he was 7 or 8 ...
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Transferring a sleeping infant from my arms to his bed [duplicate]
Sometimes my infant falls asleep in my arms and I need to transfer him to a more permanent position. When I try to lay him down in his crib, he wakes up and cries. Is there a good way to make the ...
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How can I help my one year old transition to sleeping in crib?
My son has slept with me most his life, due to a C-section on my part and a bad belly on his, which made him wheeze from acid reflux. I felt better touching his belly to know he was OK.
Now I can't ...
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Suggestions for 16month old who cries horribly and bangs his head when put down for a nap
My son has never been good at going down for naps. But lately he is getting so bad that he sometimes skips them and I am also afraid he is going to hurt himself as he purposely throws himself at the ...
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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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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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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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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
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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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My 12-month-old baby wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning. What should I do?
My 12-month-old baby wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning.
I tried to feed him a bit more before bedtime and get him to sleep later, but it doesn't work..
What should I do?
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My children like to fall asleep to music, what product will turn itself off after an hour?
My children like to fall asleep to music, have you used a helpful product that will timeout after, say 1 hour?
Otherwise, the music plays all night. I'm not sure if that is bad.
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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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Move into own room at the same time as sleep training?
Our 5 month old currently sleeps in her cot in our bedroom. We've taken one of the sides off, and the cot is right next to the the bed to make it easier for nighttime feeds, which my wife does lying ...
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How to help a 3-year-old, who is resisting bedtime very aggressively, sleep at night?
Me and my husband have a 3-year-old son. He always had a little bit of trouble going to sleep, but in the last 3 or 4 months it has become nightmarish. I do not like who I am when I get to the point ...
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What are good ways to help my son sleep without breastfeeding?
My son is 19 months old but still need a breastfeed to soothe him before go to sleep. What are good ways to help him sleep without breastfeeding? And by the way, how bad this could be if I let him ...
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How can I get an 11-month-old I care for during the day to take a nap?
I care for a 11-month-old baby who has two weeks where they arrive at 5:30am and then 2 weeks they arrive at 1pm.
For the 5:30 shift, the baby should be going to sleep. The mom had said it was ...
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Can I let my 5 month old fall asleep after playing in his crib?
When I put my 5 month old son to sleep, I turn on the white noise player and give him a security blankie with a teddy bear.
He is playing with the teddy bear and / or sucking it and falling asleep ...
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Regression in sleeping for a seven month old - is that normal?
Up until 6 months, we didn't try to train our child to sleep to any particular routine; fed her on demand through the night. At about 6 months we started to cry it out, and after one unpleasant night ...
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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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Toddler started to not fall asleep anymore
Our little girl, who is 21 months old, has been sleeping really well pretty much from the beginning. We established a good routine sleeping through the night, no problem.
Since Christmas however she ...
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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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