Child Won't SLEEP!

My nephew had that problem and they used calming music. They played it real low all night long and it seemed to have work. My sister in law reads him a story and tell him its time to sleep and he is content with the story and the music and has slept through the night it would be worth the try.

hi D.,has she been sleeping alone since she was born? Does she sleep with a teddy bear etc. ? does she sleep in the dark or have to have the light on?Does she know she sleeps restless,or? She might just be a light sleeper i would change the lite etc. Try changes? wb Berni.

Unfortunately she may never be a good sleeper or she may take another year or so to outgrow this. I have a four year old daughter who has never been a sleeper either. She has night terrors and she has also been put on medicines and different bed time routines but none of it worked. Well I am happy to say she is better than she use to be and seems to finally be outgrowing it. Good luck with that and let me know if you find out a secret to that, I would love to know it!

well being a person with really bad sleep habits i know quite a few tricks. make sure she is not getting any caffine (it is in chocolate milk, chocolate and soda). after noon as in 12pm during the day. Make sure she is up and running around and burnning off energy (as a mother of a 4 year old i know she is doing this) and make sure that the lights are off, and there is no music or tv or toys in bed. Not to make you crazy but i have always had sleep problems. If you can trust her in her room by herself just let her cycle through her dance. Dont go running to her everytime you hear her playing, or whatever sometimes kids just want to know you are there. Good luck!

It sounds like your daughter my be having what is called Night Terrors. They are nothing bad, lots of children have them. I don't know a lot about them but my friends dauhter had them when she was young.
As far as sleeping through the night, my twelve year old son has never been a good sleeper. He actually didn't sleep through the night until he was 5~not one single solid night! Now at twelve he still doesn't require much sleep, neither does my husband. As a matter of fact, when my son was six Santa brought him a sleeping bag with a note attached saying he could come in our room to sleep anytime he wanted as long as he got in his sleeping bag on the floor and not in bed with us. To this day he is in our floor many mornings including today! If you are like me and require LOTS of sleep this will be a long road! Thankfully our other two children ages 2 1/2 and 16 years sleep very well!

Hi D. J, All kids go through the not sleeping at night. Some are worse than others. It's my opinion, but I wouldn't give a child something to make them sleep. I know it's difficult, but sometimes you are better off just taking time before you put a child to bed to read a story, or just talk to them and make them feel a bit more relaxed. Sometimes, even though you think cartoons are good for children to watch, some of them can be very violent. Children don't forget things. My grandson is 5 and he told me one night he was having bad dreams and would wake up afraid. So I asked him to tell me about the dreams and turns out it was something he had seen on T.V. in a cartoon that had him afraid. I explained to him that a cartoon wasn't real it was just for fun and it wasn't anything to be scared of. It was sort of like Chuckie on the Rugrats learning how to potty train. He didn't want to go to the bathroom because he was afraid he would flush down the toilet too. When it was explained in the cartoon he was to big to flush down the toilet, he was ok. That's just an example that made a lot of sense to me because I could see why he would be afraid. Try to find out if your daughter has something bothering her or make it into a game, or just fun. When she senses you are more relaxed, she will be more relaxed. I hope this will help you. Good luck!

What is she doing when she wakes up? Is she waking up in the same place she went to sleep. If you move a child once they are asleep then when they enter a semi-concious state (we all do this during the night, we just don't realize it) she will become confused and wake completely up. Same thing if she is going to sleep with a tv and wakes up and it's off. Is something changing after she goes to sleep? If it is too dark when my 4 year old does the semi-consciousness thing, I am guaranteed to hear a good holler in the middle of the night. Also if she is climbing in the bed with you when she wakes up and you are allowing her to stay there then that creates a habit too. If you put her back in her bed with little to no communication, eventually she will stop. I'm not sure if these scenerios apply or not. If they don't but there are any more details you could give, it may help. Let me know how it goes.

My friend had a child who was up all through the night as 2 year old. She mentioned this to her chiropractor and he asked if they had to use suction during delivery, and she had. The Chiropractor made several minor adjustments to the child and she has slept through the night ever since.

My 3 1/2 year old daughter does the same thing. She has always woken me up at least 2 or 3 times a week crying, and when I go in there sometimes she doesn't know that I am there, and is just restless as all get out. It is just night terrors, and she also doesn't needs as much sleep as her siblings. What I do is: if I hear her, I give her a minute or two because sometimes she calms herself down. She also comes in my room and asks to sleep with me in the middle of the night, and I just tell her that she needs to go back to her room. Kids grow out of this! Hang in there.....

Perhaps you should look into having a sleep study done for her. My son had one done at 14 months for sleep apnea and is having another one this Sunday. It's worth a shot. Good luck.