22 Month Old Still Does Not Sleep Through the Night PLEASE HELP!!!!

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I was exactly where you are until I found the phrase "sleep training". A quick google will point you to several websites, or also clicking on the underlined blue words in answers. Or searching within Mamapedia.

We used the series of books "Babywise" and highly recommend them. Ferber has a book out, and there are countless others.

You're going to have to be strong and let her whine a little and not rescue her.

Oh, and by your name I'm assuming your another dad? welcome aboard. :)

Of course she does this. If you have been doing the same thing since she can remember why should she expect any different. DO NOT lay down with her. Just place her back in her room. My son went through a phase where he got out of his bed every night and did not want to sleep alone. We tried everything. Finally we told him if he kept geting out of bed we will have to shut the door. Sounds mean but it worked, now he only gets out of bed if he has a bad dream, which isn't often.

Put a baby gate on her door so that she can't get out of her room and come into yours. If she cries at the gate, put her back in bed and tell her "Mommy and Daddy can't sleep in your bed. This is your bed. Mommy and Daddy have to sleep in our bed. You may have to let her cry it out for a few nights. Just keep reminding her that she has to sleep in her own bed and leave the room.

Keep a few extra pacifiers in her bed, so she can find them on her own. My friend even had a little netted paci holder that she kept attached to the bed, or near the bed and her child knew where it was so he could get one himself if he lost one in the night.

Best of luck!

ok , Do the "Nanny" routine.1st night put her to bed , sit or lay on the bed. 2nd night sit on the floor next to the bed, 3rd move a little way away from the bed, continue until you are out of the room then ...... if she wakes up same thing. do not talk to her when you put her to bed just take her to her bed lay her down...and continue ...she will realize she is not getting any attention from you and this will end the wanting to get up for nothing.
good Luck!

Put a baby gate on her door. Explain why. Kids this age are able to understand what you're saying. Bottom line, you just have to teach her to do this differently. She IS able to sleep on her own, and she should be able to get her own pacifier if/when she wakes up, and should be able to soothe herself back to sleep - but she has been trained otherwise up until now. You just have to re-train her. I wouldn't lay down in the room with her anymore. She may cry the first night or two, but she will get with the program soon enough, and you can all get a good night's sleep.

E.,
I saw an episode of supernanny once and these parents had the same problem.She had the parents start off by;one night laying in the bed with the child..then on the floor next to the child (the next night)...further back the next night....and so on.In the follow up they said it worked.I dont mean over n over forever either..LOL..Its supposed to help transition the child into you putting her to bed and being able to walk away.She (supernanny)might have a website,IDK.I saw it though and was amazed.Good Luck though

Usually, at the cusp of any age change (your daughter is approaching 2 years old), a child will have sleep tweaks. And growing pains. Of which this is not only physical things.
They are changing a ton, developmentally/cognitively/and physically.
And at this age as well, their emotions and imaginations are changing too. They are not rocket scientists about it and they don't even have self-management skills nor deductive or inductive reasoning. Their emotions are not even fully developed, nor their impulse control.

2 years old, they change a ton.
They also can begin to have "nightmares" and general "fears".... of the dark or night time. Or it can be teething.

So keeping these things in mind.... you will have to decide what your
"expectations" of her are. And if it is age appropriate or not. And then do whatever "method" you decide, to handle this.

Developmentally kids vary.
My kids: my daughter slept through the night from about 2 years old. My son, from about 3 years old. They did this naturally per their development. We never made sleep or naps, a battle.