Help with Bedtime - Baton Rouge,LA

If you don't have already have one, buy her a new pretty night light or really dim lamp for the bedroom. This might help her to be able to see everything is still the same as before time to go to sleep and if she wakes up, she'll see she's fine. Maybe a good new snuggle toy would help to feel relaxed too. It's probably just the new environment making her uneasy. Have a visit or two to the daycare before going for a full day so she knows the teacher's face and name and hopefully a friend or two by name.

We are struggling with the same sleeping issues with our 2.5 year old son. A friend recommended that I give him a Pediasure shake about an hour before bedtime, as he seems to be using "hungry" as his excuse. Try it!

Just do like we all have been doing, for years, lay down with her, & if you fall asleep, & end up sleeping that way all night in her bed, that is OK. As in growing up, she will over come the night mares, & you can sleep in your own bed. Now, if you had Twin's & they both cried out in the night, now that may become a problem. Unless you got a Crib big enough for all 3 of you! :0)

I wish I could help you. We are having a lot of the same issues with our 18 mth old son. We, too, just recently moved. My son has never been a great sleeper, so any disturbance in his "routine" throws a huge curve in his sleep patterns. Anyway, I just wanted to give you some support and say that I think its pretty normal. :-)

Hello

I know what you are going through because back at Easter I moved to a new apt. and my little girl had a hard time ajusting to the new one right before that she turned 2.
It took me about 3months before she would start sleeping in her room w/out waking up about every few hrs. So I can say hang in there it will get better and she will get use to her new room it will just take time.

That's a lot for a 2 year old to digest. Be patient with her because she is not sure of her surroundings now and it's coming out that way in her. Not unusual, and she will settle down, she just needs reasurrance from you and daddy.

I have had this sort of thing happen to me. My 3 year old has always slept in the bed with me and my husband up until about 6 months ago. We also live in an apartment and she wakes up and always comes and gets in the bed with us. We live on the top floor. Well my husband wasnt feeling well the other night and he slept in my daughters room and she slept in the bed with me. He said that he thinks he knows why she wakes up the neighbor down below us was being so loud screaming etc that it woke him up out of a dead sleep, he was like no wonder she is scared. He was like it scared me. But i just put in a complaint to our landlord and it has sense stopped and she is sleeping alot better now. Not saying that is the issue but your daughter might be hearing other things go on in other apartments around you and it might startle her up. Hope that mihgt be of some help. Oh and congrats on the baby boy!!!

I also have had problems with my kids doing this. I have found that if you can get a night light and a bed buddy... ie a monster protector... that seems to work. at least it did for me. the night light that I got was one of the globe lamps that Walmart was selling. That way it is not completely dark in her room. You could try that and see if it works.