No Sleep for Mom & Dad

This happened to me and my husband with our first child. As soon as she was in a "big girl bed" she was up and down 6 or more times per night. It was terrible and seemingly lasted forever because we too were exhausted. Our pediatrician told us to lock her in her room, we were never comfortable with that but a pediatric nurse practitioner suggested we put her crib mattress on the floor at the foot of our bed and if she gets up have her lay down on that and gradually move it closer to her bed. The point for us was not letting her get in bed with us. It worked for us and shortly the sleepless nights were over.

Hey,Girl first of all what is she doing all day.what time does she get up in the morning.if she goes to the sitter, are they giving to many naps,are you as weel letting her sleep during the day does she have after school care untill you all get off work. all of this plays a role on her. she has to have a playful and tiring day. as you all do at work. have dinner go to wal-mart walk around let her walk and not in the buggie go to the park after dinner and let her walk go to the mall and walk by the time you get home give her a good warm bath and lotion her down put warm jammies on tuck her in and see don't this work Idare you to try this.I have 4 children 23,18,16,3 been there done that (lol) T., hope that helps.

She is over tired and needs to go to bed earlier it sounds crazy but it should work. Another thing I tell everyone if you don't have it get some white noise going in the room whether it is a fan or water machine or air cleaner just to have white noise always running will change everything. before we did those things we had a baby gate at the door to keep our son in when he woke up during the night when he learned he couldn't get to us he went back to bed and put himself to sleep.

We went through this so we put a night light and a cd player in our four year olds room it helped out alot.

We're going through that with our three year old. She has not slept through the night in almost a year. It's very frustrating. One thing I found out though is that part of why she's waking up is because she needs to go potty. She's having trouble self soothing and when she woke up, she'd come straight to us. Well, we had to just tell her to go potty, she gave us hugs (from the floor, she coudln't get in our bed or she didn't want to leave) and then she has to walk herself back to her room. She cried in the beginning for about 5 minutes (if that) each time she had to go back to bed but she learned to get herself back to sleep. Now it's only once a night (instead of 5 times a night) and some times she'll go potty without even waking us. She still cries from time to time just to let us know she's up, but after she goes potty and gives us loves, she goes to her bed without problem. Good luck!

I can totally relate! I had trouble with our oldest, not sleeping the night. We tried everything, cd's, night light, fan, etc. What worked for her was an aquarium.

We bought a small aquarium with bubbler that made a quiet vibrating motor noise as well as the soft noise of the bubbles in the tank. We placed it on her night stand and left the light on at night. It was enough to help her sleep through household noises and she would zone out watching the fish swim around, which helped her to relax. Part of her bedtime routine was to feed the fish (with supervision) and tell them goodnight. For the first few nights, I'd sit on her bed and we'd watch the fish together. She eventually started watching them herself, and putting herself back to sleep.

Downside: The fish lasted forever and I hated cleaning out the tank.

Good luck for sweet dreams soon!