my two year old slept in my room for the last couple months but now that we have another baby we want him in his own room. i got thomas the train sheet and he loves his room and his bed but at night i have to sit in his room until he falls asleep however it takes 3 hours for him to fall asleep. i also sit in his room for naps but it only takes him 15 minutes to fall asleep then. we have a bed time routine and he doesnt cry when he gets in bed he just looks around and tosses and turns for ever before he falls asleep. why does it take so long and what can i do to help him fall asleep faster and will i ever just be able to lay him down and leave the room so he can fall asleep on his own if so what are the steps in doing so?
he takes a nap from about 130 until 330 and i try to put him to bed at 8pm but he doesnt fall asleep until 10 or 11. i tryed to cut naps out but he get to cranky at around 5 and fall asleep early then wont go to bed until really late. if i dont sit in a chair in his room until he falls asleep hell will get up and play or cry for me to sit in the room
stay next to him, rub his chest, keep talkin. find a toy to play music with lights. my boy breast feeds with me in "our" bed. this how i get him to seep alone in play pin. i had to put pillows inside for him to lay apon for him to fall asleep.
Both my kids stopped napping at 2. About 5 at night it was difficult because they were tired but if they napped they'd be up until 11. So sometimes I'd try to keep them up so they'd sleep through the night.
How many naps is he taking, how long are they and what time do you put him down for bed? It sounds like he just isn't tired. Maybe shorten his nap-time or get rid of one nap.
my daughter (2) has been taking several hours to fall asleep at night.. it's frustrating..
I just started reading a book called The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley.. it's excellent.. she covers all those topics.. kids not being able to fall asleep on their own, needing to be in parents' bed, etc.
You can get the book at your local library or www.pantley.com
My 2 1/2 year old takes forever to fall asleep, which is hard with an 8 month old in the house.
I assume you have a partner in the house? Can they help you put the 2 year old to sleep? Can you safely leave your 2 year old in his bed? Will he stay put or do you have to be there?
How about putting his bed in your room for a while so that he is in there and you can monitor him......his own bed in his own room may be too much of a transition for him.
My son slept with us until the baby was born and then asked to go into his own bed in our room on his own when the baby came home from the hospital. He sleeps in it most nights although its about 50/50 that he is in bed with us or my hubby is in bed with him by 4am...which seems to be our waking time to look for us.
I think some kiddos just aren't good sleepers. My 2 1/2 year old is a terrible sleeper (so am I ). My husband could sleep through a tornado and my 8 month old has been sleeping through the night from like 5 weeks on and is a sleeping champ!
So, the good news for us and maybe you was that bedtime wasn't an issue. My newborn would nurse and crash out and I'd have time to deal with the older child....there were only a handful of nights in the last 8 months that I needed to deal with two fussy kiddos.
Is your son going to bed too early to be that restless? My 2 1/2 year old suddenly went from going to bed at 730 to going to bed at 9....we tried to push the 730 for a few nights and it was a disaster til we realized that he was switching his bedtime....now we have about 25 minutes of tossing and turning versus an hour and a half.
Good luck!
