I have a 6 month old son who is still not sleeping on his own in his crib. My husband and I are still taking turns at night with him. My daughter was easy she slept in her crib the night she was brought home, but my son has been a little spoiled because he had sleep apnea and had to be monitored for the first month. SO my question is how do I get him to sleep through the night by himself? Even with him sleeping with us, he is up and restless through the night.
I want to Thank everybody for your wonderful advice, so for the past week my son Hunter has been sleeping in his crib, we only had one bad night but he also has a cold, but I found that he wanted a pillow to snuggle against and I found a noise machine that I had for my daughter with the 'womb" sounds and so far it has been working! "fingers crossed". So again Thank you for all your help, it makes for a better nights sleep, being pregnant again so early has me mentally and emotionally drained.
you can feed your son soy-gurt, if the dr says its ok, before bed. a full tummy always helps me sleep better, along with my son too.
Hi J.
My name is R.. I currently have children from the ages of 15-10. However my sister is basically a single mom of soon to be 4 boys. Her 3 year old,Dakota, he is still sleeping with mom also. When she attemps to put him to bed he screams to the point where she cant take it. So she gives in and puts him in bed with her. And now it has got to the point where she does not even try.
When he comes here and spends the night, he does ok with me putting him on the couch and he goes right to sleep, when he is here that is where I leave him. I do not put him in bed with me. So I think it is more of a seperation issue with him and his mom. I wonder if that is what is going on with you.
My adive would be to start, I would rock him or whatever it is that he enjoys, until he falls asleep, then I would put him in his bed, At first if he stays asleep it may only be for 30 minutes or an hr, but atleast he is away from you for that time. Then if you continue to do that, each night might be alittle longer each time. To hopefully eventually getting him in his own bed on his on like a big boy!
I have given this advice to my sister, but she is just so tired, she is pregnant with her 4th due any day now, and has 3 other boys ages 3,6,13 and she just has her hands full, by the end of the day she is just pooped. But I hope once the new baby is born, she will be more willing to work on the 3 year old getting to his bed.
Hopefully she doesnt start putting the new baby in her bed lol, then we start all over again!
Ok hun, take care, let me know how things go. Please let me know too if you have tried this technique before and we will think of something else.
Take Care
R.
Try giving him something a little bit more solid to eat before bed. This could help in him feeling a bit sluggish and tired as we do after eating something heavy we sometimes may get tired.
Try feeding him a baby cereal more concentrated in cereal than milk, this could aid in him staying fuller longer. Get him ready for bed as usual or try a different routine that will tire him out right before bed, such as a longer bath time with lavender and/or chamomile; these are said to be soothing even for adults to aid in sleep. Is the room dark to differentiate etween day and night so that he knows the difference. Meaning there are not a lot of lights on when it's his bedtime and are the noise levels very low or too loud for him, not you. I'm asking these things because many factors can be causing him not to sleep at night.
Also try talking to your pediatrician, he or she can offer some advice in helping him to go to sleep and stay asleep through the night.
I had used more home remedies in caring for my daughter in her first year than anything else. They seemed to work too for me, so try visiting a health food store and ask questions. Usually you can get something natural and safe for your baby to use to help in getting some sleep for all of you.
Good Luck to you!
I do don't get much sleep alot of the time, and in most cases my young 3 month old daughter prefers to be rocked in the chair continually, than gong down in her crib to sleep, that makes for plenty arms and hands that have fallen asleep. One of the things I find that helps is making sure the she has a full stomach, is all snuggled in something soft and comfortable and has a dry diaper(usually means changing her before I sit down and feed her for the night) I find that soft lighting helps, and that having soft music in the backround, whether it's baby eistein's lulluby CD or Native American drum and flute music, tends to help. (though again when you have an active baby that still doesn't always work) there have been manny times when I've gone to put her down, she's been sound a sleep, and not 3 minutes later I hear her making noise, go in and she's wide awake and gives me this huge smile as if to say, "okay time to play with me again!" it can be rather frustrating...and sleep depriving. For for the past few days, these ideas have started to work for me a little better. But there are still plenty of times when the only way she will stay asleep is either on me or my husbands chest while WE sleep in bed. being that you're a mother of 2 already you may already know these things, but hopefully it's helped, and maybe it will just take some more time.
good luck,
-also a sleepless mom
The best book I read when my toddler had sleep/nap issues was "Solve your Child's Sleep Problems" by Richard Ferber. It addresses every scenerio and gives you step by step instructions for getting through it. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't involve letting your child cry it out. Check it out from the library and give it a go. It totally helped me!
D.
Wow, this is a hard one. I really depends on what you are comfortable with. I personally, would do a few days of "practice" in his crib for naps. I would just insist that he sleeps there even though it might take some crying. I like to check in on my 7 month old and give her the pacifier and I actually still swaddle her arms to help her sleep. After a few days of that, I would go ahead and put in him his crib at night. He might have to cry a little. I also recommend a book (that's probably at the library) called "The no cry sleep solution." It's a little extreme in some areas (since I think it's ok for a baby to cry a little), but it will give you helpful ideas to get the baby to ultimately sleep through the night. She does some journaling of sleep patterns. I didn't bother with that. I just gleaned from her ideas.
Good luck
I have a two year old and he still doesn't sleep through the night. Either my husband or myself sleep in his bed and if I am tooo tired I let him sleep with us. It's hard because I know how tired you get and how frustrating it can be, I just hope that he will grow out of it.
Does your son fall asleep drinking his bottle???? the doctor used to tell us to make sure we wake him up if he does and make him finish, he slept alot better but not through the whole night.
