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Hi! I’m Dana Obleman, creator of The Sleep Sense Program. If you’d rather read than watch, I’ve transcribed the text of this video below.
Is your child tired and cranky after a nap? If so, they might actually need to stay awake longer!
Kim wrote to me and said:
“Help! I started sleep training my eight-month-old for naps at the end of May and he was sleeping for about 75 minutes each nap. Now in June, he’s only sleeping 30 minutes and wakes up tired and cranky. I’ve tried leaving him in the crib, but I just don’t know how long to leave him. He needs three or four naps a day, too. I’d really like to get this problem solved before I go back to teaching in August.”
I think we could have a couple of things going on with Kim’s baby. She doesn’t say but I’d assume that the sleep training for naps is the same as it is for nights. If not, then that might be causing the problem. She may have to sort the whole thing out by addressing night time as well as nap time.
It’s possible that the baby might need a little more awake time between naps. This can be a tricky one because you don’t want to push them too hard but you do want to push them a little bit.
The average eight-month-old needs about three hours of awake time between naps. If he’s waking for the day at 7 a.m., you need to try and stretch him until about 10 a.m. for his first nap.
Often when babies show those first signs of fatigue, they go down for their nap fairly easily. But what frequently happens is they only sleep for 30 minutes or so. Perhaps they were tired, but not tired enough to take a long nap.
On the flip side, and this is the tricky part, if you push too hard to keep them awake, it could have the same effect when you finally do put them down. If you go too far past their nap “window” so to speak, it might back fire into lots of fussing and crying and still, they only take a 30 minute nap. It can be frustrating for both of you.
Here’s what we need to do: first, try slowly and gently to push their awake time a little bit more each day. If they can only do another 10 or 15 minutes for the first couple of days, that’s a good start. Then gently try to push their awake time another 20 minutes for a couple of days.
By carefully and gradually adding to the awake time over a period of time, they’ll eventually increase it to three hours, and that will most likely increase the nap length as well.
If your baby is still waking up after only a 30 minute nap, there are a couple of different strategies you might consider.
If extending their awake time did not increase the nap time, try just the opposite approach. When they’re waking after a short nap, go to them as soon as you hear them, tuck them back in, give them their toy or “blankey” and tell them “It’s still nappy time” or “It’s still sleepy time.” Rub their head and pat them on the back a couple of times to try to get them back to sleep.
Sometimes if you can catch the baby just as they’re waking up, the 30 minute mark in this instance, you can convince them to go back into another sleep cycle and extend the nap.
If this approach doesn’t work either, that brings us to the second part of Kim’s question, “How long should I wait before I go in?” If a baby is going to go back to sleep after a short nap, it will usually happen within 20 minutes. I’d suggest you wait for 20 minutes before you go to them. If that goes by and they’re still not back to sleep, then get them up. If you’re trying to wait your baby out, you could be waiting a long time and that makes for a difficult day for both of you.
After a cat nap, it can be pretty tough to get a baby to go back to sleep. Just keep trying a combination of stretching out the awake time and quickly going in after a short nap to encourage them to go back to sleep. Again, it can be a tricky thing.
One thing to keep in mind is that the last nap of the day is almost always a short nap anyway. After a good two-hour morning nap, an afternoon nap of an hour or even 45 minutes isn’t that bad and in fact is pretty common. Don’t worry if that happens as long as they’re getting in one really good solid nap, followed by a shorter one. The opposite way is fine too, the short nap in the morning then the long nap in the afternoon.
Hope that helps your baby to sleep well!
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My 9 month old daughter goes to sleep on her own at 7pm bedtime with no problem at all and mostly sleeps through unless she can’t find her dummy. She will only sleep until 5 – 5.30am no matter what I try. She is happy to wait until 6am for her bottle without any fussing so don’t think it is hunger that wakes her. As she is up so early she is still needing 3 naps or bedtime becomes a nightmare. When at home she generally naps 8am – 9am, 12 – 1.30pm and 3.30pm – 4pm. Nursery is different problem as she only sleeps 30-35 minutes. I don’t know what else to do to get her to sleep longer. Should she be on 2 naps like everyone keeps telling me?
Hi I could really use some help my daughter is now one and naps have always been an issue. Sleep in general has always been an issue. To this day she still wakes once most nights. We are also getting short naps and have for months. I can sometimes get an hour or so in the morning but the afternoon is always 30 mins. How can I extend her naps? What is a good awake time between naps for her age? I just can’t seem to get it right
hi dana,
My question is about nap time. my son sleeps in the bed with us and that is fine with me but when he naps he only naps about a hour and a half at 12 noon and then he wants to take another nap at 4 and it messes his night time sleep up really bad. how can i get my sweet son to sleep longer at nap time? please help. thank u
I babysit for my now 7 month old nephew, I started when he was 5 months old and he does not take naps too good. When I first started watching him he would fall asleep with his bottle and when I would go lay him down he would wake right up. His mother told me he took about 30 min. in morn. and about 2 to 3 hrs. in the afternoon, but that did not happen with me. Then I asked her did he take his naps in crib and she said no, she held him the whole time and then I realized he was used to that, but I refuse to hold him during his naps. Now he is 7 mos. old and he still does not take good naps and if he wakes when you put him down and you try to leave him there he just screams and screams and when he does take a nap for a short time usually when he wakes he wakes screaming and the minute he sees me he screams even louder. Also he does this at home too plus he also sleeps in bed every night with mommy because she cannot get him to stay in him crib and he also gets up several times a night and the only way she gets him back to sleep is by nursing him. So I don’t believe there is any way I can fix this and believe me I have tried but unless things change at home and I don’t think things will change for him at my home. Also you cannot just lay him down awake and stay there with him because he will just cry and cry and scream and scream louder and he just doesn’t stop. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this.
Thank you ,
Lorna
Why does my 7 month old daughter, who was taking two 1 1/2 hour naps every day without a fuss, all of the sudden start taking 30 minute naps and fussing like crazy?? What should I do?
Dear Dana,
My daughter Thea is 5 months old and sleeps 11-12 hours at night!! Your program is awesome. She was sleeping 8 hours straight prior to that but that was with a soother and swaddle. Once she could come unswaddled we had problems with her waking up every hour. We used your program and took away all of her sleep aides and within one night she started sleeping the 11-12 hours!!! Thank you!! Now our problem is napping. I try to put her down for two naps a day. They usually only last 40minutes to an hour and a half. I can’t get her to nap longer than that. After her first nap (which is usually only 40minutes) I have to go out to run errands…she ALWAYS falls asleep in the car because obviously the fist nap wasn’t long enough. When she wakes from her 40minute nap I try to get her back down but she screams. How do I get her to take longer naps and how do I get her to not sleep in the car seat??
Hi Dana,
I have been following your Sleep Sense book for several months with my son who is now 14 months old. He has always had difficulty sleeping, and naps are impossible! Finally, when he turned one year, he began sleeping through the night.
My question is about the naps. I have tried every approach to get him to sleep in his crib for day time naps. He is so stubborn, and will not go down without a fight to the bitter end EVERY TIME. He will cry for 30min-1 hr (I will go in every 15 min to lay him down, and tell him it is sleepy time) then finally he will give up and pass out, only to wake up 20-30 min later! I can’t get him back to sleep after waking and he is clearly still tired and fussy. I have used all methods (going right in, timed waiting, patting, etc…) This has been happening for so long with no change, and it feels like I am getting no where with him.
Non-the-less, I am tired and frustrated and can’t stand to hear him cry everyday with no end in sight. Sometimes it is just easier to let him sleep in the car then deal with the impending fight in the crib.
Any ideas????
Thank you!
How many naos should a 4 month old have?
Dear Dana, why is it so hard for my five year old to fall asleep during naptime and bedtim?
Hi Dana,
I read the book and followed the sleepsense program for my daughter. She is now 9.5 months old and sleeps well through the night but has suddenly gone from 3 naps to one. I have been following Gina ford for weaning. So the nap timings suggested by you and her are slightly different based on the meal time. The problem is that my daughter wakes up at 7 am and then has stopped taking another nap at 9 or 945 am.. so i make her sleep at 12 noon after her lunch but she wakes up after 1 hour 20 mins and then I have tried giving her a nap at 4ish but she just doesn’t sleep. By 530 she is extremely sleepy. Somehow I keep her awake and put her to bed at 7 pm. So the last 1 hour is spent fussing. What do you suggest I do? Thanks Ruchi
I am sleep training my 15month old son at night and at naptime. He is doing much better at night now (only after a few days) but naptimes he still screams. How long is too long to let him scream at naptime?
My daughter is only 5 weeks old and I have already been having a lot of problems with sleep during the day. At night she is only waking to feed once and is averaging about 12 hours in total which she has been doing since 2-3 weeks of age. During the day however, she gets only short little 20-30 minute naps and only a few of those and the rest of the time she is awake! We are also dealing with some colic which isn’t helping matters. She will sleep as long as I am holding her but wakes shortly after I put her in her bed – at night she can get herself to sleep in her bed by herself just fine. The issue is that if I just lay her in her bed during the day awake, she will of course start crying and will continue to cry for hours if I let her – it’s not just a little fussy spell while she learns to put herself to sleep. She will literally scream until she starts coughing and choking! Help!
Hi,
I purchased your sleep program in 2007 following the birth of my 1st child (Olivia) my husband and I we’re not successful – however now with my second – 4 month old Davide we have once again pulled out your program and have started sleep training. I’ve become very familiar with Dr. Marc Weissbluth’s work and I am impressed with his work. I notice that you quote him and your program follows his premise. My questions is related to naps. We have used the extinction method with him and responding well both at night and for naps – he still wakes at night once or twice to feed (bottle fed) and that’s not much of a problem. Our is issue is with the nap lenghts; they are short and frequent about 35-50 minutes 3-4 times per day and occassionally one nap will be 1hour 20/30 minutes. How do I consolidate these naps into two longer ones. Dr.Weissbluth notes that post colic babies may develop longer and regular naps later (at 5, 6 months) is this your experince as well? We are trying very hard to help our baby sleep but he will not take long naps (falls asleep on his own – takes 5-10minutes of crying and sometimes none). What do you suggest?
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Hi,
We moved to Canada from UK more than a year ago when my son was 7 months old (he’s now 20 months) for family reasons. For more than a month before coming to Canada he was sleeping perfectly in his own bedroom sometimes waking up once or rarely twice. Then after moving as we had just one room for us in a joint family rented house, my son’s been sleeping in his cot next to our bed and for the whole year he has NEVER slept through the night without waking up. He would be awake standing in his cot looking for me or his dad and wanting to come out and we would bring him to our bed so that he doesn’t cry for long and most of the times he’d go to sleep immediately.
For a period of time he also seemed to have night terrors as he would keep crying for long but with his eyes closed, even if I have held him in my arms and I am talking to him he won’t stop crying nor would open his eyes. Thankfully that has not happened anymore for a couple of months.
Now I am going to move to my new house (still joint family) with more bedrooms so want help in settling my boy to sleep in his own room. Also want to know if he should sleep in his cot or should I get a bed for him with fence?
Your response could save our sleep.
Thank you.
Hi, our 12 month old daughter has always slept well of a night since the day she was born which I’m not complaining about, but she has never slept well through the day. She has always had cat naps for no more than 45 mins. Two weeks ago I thought she was changing to having one two hour nap a day, however she has been having a 45 minute nap in the morning at around 9am and a nap at 5pm until 6pm after her bath. When she wakes up she doesn’t want to eat dinner as shes to upset because shes so tired. Do you have any suggestions as how to get her to sleep better through the day? Also shes a little sticky beak and wants to know everything thats going on and wants to keep standing up in the cot. She is such a good baby and I worry about her not eating her dinner.
she’s so tired
Hi Dana,
I’m contimplating buying your book, I have a 6 month old baby who hasn’t been sleeping well at night and not that well in the day either.
I also have a toddler who is 2/12, and we are out and about alot on his routine but i try to only go out every second day so that my baby has some routine.
With my toddler I used the sleeping like a baby methods by Pinky Mackay until 4 months old then put him on the Tizzie Hall methods which worked really well for him and he started sleeping through the night almost as soon as i had him on the routine without much fuss, however my baby refuses this routine and gets very upset if i leave him for too long my todler only ever protested for about 10 minutes Zach can go on for ages and gets quite distressed as do i. he was also still catnapping on it and waking up through the night 2 to three times sometimes more and seems to be comfort sucking which i don’t understand because he can go to sleep on his own. I have now extended his time awake and instead of watching the clock i watch him which seems to be working better with his morning sleep however he will only still have a short nap in the afternoon and is buggered by night time and falls asleep on the breast. I do sometimes get him into bed at night with me as i don’t get a chance to nap in the day and i’m just too exhausted to keep getting up. Please help i’m so tired and strung out!
Hi Dana,
MY daughter is 3 years old and has never been a good sleeper. I still have to lie with her until she falls asleep. She then wakes up at least 3 times before 12am. It only takes about 2 minutes to get her to sleep again. Then at about 2am she’ll wake up again, at which time it takes about 30min’s to get her back to sleep. She’ll then be nagging for something – be it water, a specific doll, an apple or some hot dogs(!!).
She doesn’t nap during the day, and thus goes to sleep at 6pm. If she does sleep during the day, I leave her until 7pm to go to sleep, but even then it takes an hour plus to get her to fall asleep. She wakes up at about 6am.
During the day she is really tired and cries a lot.
My son is 19 months old and sleeps straight through – from 6pm, to at least 7am. And he takes a good nap between 12pm and 2pm.
I can’t cope much longer with my daughter’s lack of sleep and moodiness as a result thereof.
PLEASE help me.
Hi,
My 5 years old son keeps waking up during the night many times (5-7). He is not hungry ( I feed him once ,around 3am), he just wants his soother( he does not need it to fall asleep). Another thing is that I always have to tight him up in a blanket otherwise he cannot fall asleep…He is tossing and turning , scratching his face, turning on his belly, or catching his feet and basically getting more awake. His naps during the day are max 30 min, usually 15-30 min. Doctor told me that he may not need much sleep ( he could take after me) but I can see during the day that he is trying to fall asleep but he cannot( when he is sleepy and cannot fall asleep he starts being nerves, and cries). As I have never needed much sleep myself, right now all I thing about is my bed. I am exhausted.
Karolina
Hi Dana,
I have been following your blog recently and find it great and helpful.
I have a 5 month old daughter who takes great naps but sleeps poorly at night. Please help me. She takes 2-3 naps of 1/1.5 hrs each day and sleeps at 7pm after a bath and feeding. She wakes up anywhere between 9-10 and then on, wakes up every hour or every two hours. She does not soothe herself and the pacifier also does not help. I need to nurse her to sleep each time though she takes only a little and does not seem hungry. As I have returned to fulltime work, waking every 2 hours is killing me. :( please help me
How soon should i start to apply your methods for sleeping through the night, loosing the pacifier & self soothing as my baby is not yet 7 weeks old?
I look forward to hearing what you think.
Ta
Hi Dana, my daughter is 10 months old, I am nursing her, so i think she is using me as a human pacifier to fall asleep. We have nice bedtime routine at 7.30 pm, but she falls asleep while nursing and she sleeps through the night, which is good. The big problem we have is naps, it takes me forever to put her to sleep, even if she is nursing she is trying to play, she doesn’t want to go to bed, i tried to leave her in a crib, but she is screaming, i tried to calm her down by rubbing her back, didn’t work, i tried to stay in the room with her, didn’t work, i left her alone in the room, didn’t work, so i don’t know what to do anymore. My heart is just breaking when i hear her screaming. Please help me to figure it out how to have a nice nap time. Thank you.
Hi, my 13 week girl was sleeping well during the day and at about 10 weeks started to sleep through the night for about 2 weeks ie; 5 – 8hrs then one day it all changed and she started to sleep 30mins – 45mins and would cry and need to be rocked to sleep. I’m giving her 1hr play time before putting to bed and trying to let her cry herself to sleep which works sometime ie; 20 – 30mins before going to sleep but as right now she’s been crying for over 1hr – help.
My son Isaac is 16 months old. He sleeps great at night but we are having trouble with a day time nap. We have switched to one nap but sometimes it will only be 20-30 minutes and often takes a while before he will fall asleep. We have tried leaving him for up to 10 minutes and he screams a lot. However, he sleeps for up to 2 hours on days he is at day care!! Any suggestions to make our day times easier and him happier with a longer nap?
My 16mth son has a very good bedtime routine and goes to bed quite well most nights, but during the night wakes up crying and sat up in his crib, but once i have lay him back down he goes straight back to sleep but it this can happen 3 times or more. why does he do this and what can i do? Please help!
Hi Dana,
My son is 7 months old and has never napped for more than 15 minutes on his own. However he will nap for a good couple of hours if either me or his father go down with him. Ho can we get him to nap for a couple of hours on his own.
Hi Dana
I have a 6 month old little boy, Logan, and for the past 4 months he has being sleeping only on his tummy. I’ve read everything there is to know about SIDS, so the fact that he does this, terrifies me! I’ve been trying everything to “trick” him to fall asleep on his back, but it only works for about ten minutes and he jumps himself awake and wont go back to bed unless i lay him belly down. I’m very desprate to find a way to put him to bed the correct and safer way….please help.
thanks
**any suggestions would be wonderful!**
Hi Dana,
My 2 year old son has never slept through the night. He goes to bed at 8pm and wakes up between 1 and 3 times per night. He gets up between 5 and 6 but lately has been wanting to get out of bed at 4am! Each time he wakes up he asks for his bottle of milk and cannot fall asleep without it. He naps well (2 hours).
I tried everything and read every book. I let him cry it out for days, I tried sleeping in the same room, co-sleeping, not giving him milk at night, you name it. I have not had more than 3 hours of sleep straight for 2 years now and I am lucky if I get 5 or 6 hours in total. I am so tired, I work full time, have a long commute and a 4 year old daughter also. I am considering seeing a specialist but don’t know who to turn to. Plus, I live in a two-bedroom apartment so when he cries at night, he wakes everybody up, including his sister.
My 2 year old son has never slept through the night. He goes to bed at 8pm and wakes up between 1 and 3 times per night. He gets up between 5 and 6 but lately has been wanting to get out of bed at 4am! Each time he wakes up he asks for his bottle of milk and cannot fall asleep without it. He naps well (2 hours).
I tried everything and read every book. I let him cry it out for days, I tried sleeping in the same room, co-sleeping, not giving him milk at night, you name it. I have not had more than 3 hours of sleep straight for 2 years now and I am lucky if I get 5 or 6 hours in total. I am so tired, I work full time, have a long commute and a 4 year old daughter also. I am considering seeing a specialist but don’t know who to turn to.
My son is 17 mths old, he has a twin sister who is a great sleeper. My boy wakes 6/7 times a night, has to be nursed to sleep. i sleep with him everynight just so i can get enough sleep to function. but i want my life back! and it would be nice to sleep next to my partner again. is my boy to old for u to help? have i left it to long to change his habits, he shares a room with his sister till end of the yr.HELP
I have a 14 month old girl that has been waking up between 5 a.m. and 5:30 for the past few weeks now. I try to get her to sleep longer but she won’t. She is also not napping very well. I am putting her down for 1 nap because that is all she gets at daycare so I am trying to keep her routine similar. I work 4 days a week out of the home and have a 3 year old girl as well. So i really can not let the 14 month cry because it wakes up the 3 year old. I put them both to bed between 7:45 and 8p.m. and she goes down fine on her own, but like I said she wakes up way too early!!! Please help me figure out what I can do. Thanks
Hi Dana
Our daughter is ten months old and we have been working on trying to get her to sleep through the night. We have followed your tips for a bedtime routine and have to say that for the most part she is now sleeping through the night. There is the odd night that she still wakes and can settle anywhere from 1 min to 30 minutes from the time of waking. Now we find that her naps are more of a challenge depending if she ngiht wakes or not… sometimes she wants 2 naps and other days she fights her nap. We need help with trying to get her in a better naptime routine!!!! Any suggestions??? Also, at naps and nighttime we leave her soother in the bed but never give it to her directly as a sleep aid. Sometimes she uses it and other times she doesn’t, how do we start weaning her off the soother???
hi dana, aurelia will go down perfectly at 7.30pm after bath, story and half awake. she settles herself and will sleep till 11.30. from then she wakes crying, banging around in her sleep as if an invisible hand is throwing her around the cot. she wakes up every 2 or 3 hours. i have left her to cry for up to an hour but cannot leave her longer. i tried giving her water and i am now back to giving her milk. i work full time too and am exhausted. what should i do. i love your blog by the way.
thank, aisha
Hi, my 15 month old daughter was a good sleeper. She goes to bed easily at 7.30pm until 6.30am. But lately she wakes up in the middle of the night (up to 3 times/night) screaming and standing up in her crib. Even when I pick her up, it takes some time to calm her down. And when she seems to be calmed down, as soon as I put her back in her crib she starts crying again and screaming (but usually stops after a few minutes). I have noted that when I put some teething gel on her gum, she stops crying but it has been going on for 2 weeks now and I don’t think she’s teething anymore….The only other thing that tends to calm her is tv! As a result she stays awake from 10 mins to 1.5 hour during the night – and that does not stop her from waking up as early as 5am (not everyday though)! She goes to day care every day and I know she has naps of 40 mins to 65 mins twice a day. During the week-end her napping sessions can last up to 2 hours each! Do you think her sleeping problems are due to a lack of sleep during the day?
Please help! My husband and I both work full time and the sleep deprivation starts is really starting to have an impact on our professional and personal life!!!
My son is just over 11 months old. He has about 2 1 hour sleeps during the day if im lucky and is awake atleast 3 times a night just and wants to sleep with me. He is still breast fed and im currently trying to get him off but this is proving a problem too. I have tried everything and he will not take milk or formula and because he is falling asleep in my arms feeding this is how he wants to go to sleep all the time. I have tried to let him cry himself to sleep but ends up just screaming and sobbing til i pick him up. I think he is waking up cause he is hungry and i dont think my milk is felling him up anymore. I dont know wht else to do. Please help.
MY TWO YEAR OLD WONT SLEEP THROUGH
My 22 month old son has always been a happy, smiling child. I have never had too much problem with him sleeping during day time naps. He has also mostly alway been able to put himself to sleep on his own. At the moment he wakes at 6:30 or 7 am has his nap at 12pm for at least two hours and then is in bed for night at 7 or 7:30pm. BUT,,,,,he wakes at night mainly screaming for a bottle, mostly its once but now its increasing to twice a night usually around midnight and 5 am. I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING,,,, control crying (he cries and vomits), control comforting (he just jumps up and down in his bed crying) he wont let me pat him or stroke him, I have tried not giving him a bottle (he screams) I have tried water, dummies, putting him in our bed, I have tried warmer room, colder room, more clothes, less clothes, He has probably slept through a handful of times in his life. But as I said he goes to sleep awake by himself every night. I just dont know, I think it is habit but I can’t break it…HELP ME PLEASE!
Hi, my 8 and half month old still not sleeping trough the night. I have to pick him up everytime he wakes up and if I wait to see if he will get back to sleep he gets upset and cry. He just does not sleep if I either nurse him or pick him up. I don’ believe in let him cry out, I have been trying to rub his back and try to make him sleep with out picking him up but so far I have not succed. His naps are ok no problem there. Thank you
My daughter will be 8months on the 12 th of Sept., she still sleeps with me in bed….. she needs to be held tight, real close to my face to her face and I nurse her to sleep and I also give her a oatmeal/rice with some type of fruit mixed in it at nights. I need to for both of our sakes get her to where she doesn’t NEED to be face to face and sleep with me at nights. I will be honest though, she is my only baby I will have.. for I chose to ponly have one shild and so I think since she was born.. i have tried to show her love and comfort the that I lacked through my growing up by my own mom and son’t want my own soon to be 8 month old daughter to ever feel as though i am NOT there for her. I need HELP!!!!!
P.S. I am a first time mother and 32 years old .. doing this all on my own with out any help since I am a stay at hoe mommy and I seriously DON”T have any friends with babies like me to talk to and get advice from…..;……
Wow…i just read all these comments. It really seems like about 80% of us parents deal with excately the same thing. All we can do I guess is try our best and sometimes it works and other times not. My baby (almost 5 months) was in his room for the second time this week, we had bought a monitor so that I could hear if he cries. SO the other night I tured the monitor off at 1am when he was screaming and i went to bed. ( He had just slep then for 3 hours and i knew he wasn’t wet or hungry) Then i set my phones alarm for 3am.(when he normally also wakes up) So at 3am i woke up and put on the alarm to hear if he was awake, i didn’t hear anything so i thought he was still sleeping and i would wake up as soon as he did. So at 6am my husband woke me up (getting ready for work) and told me that Ashtin was crying for a half an hour or so already. Wellll, when i got to his room his little voice was so horse-sounding. And i then realized that the stupid monitor wasn’t working and that’s why i didn’t hear him at all. jeeezzz…. I felt sooo horrible and so sad for him, i can hear it hurts and now the last 2 days everytime he cries i try to get him right away. And now he’s back in our room again cause i don’t want him to keep hurting his throught. Needless to say, i’ll have to do the whole sleep training thing all over again.
** My sotry is so the same as most of the mommys on here…i don’t know why it’s so hard, i felt like crying when i read sone of these comments. I already had my crying moment today…it’s just so hard to hold him for hours, my shoulders, arms, wrists is all messed up i think. I try to make coffee, eat, laundry and do all the other normal things but its very tiring. I don’t even get to real cleaning EVER!! That’s been the most frustrating. Not having a normal life like i use too. But i love my little guy, and couldn’t imaging life with out him, he is so precious!! (there should be a way that we could attach a pic. of our little ones to our comments too. That be neat!)
Anyway…just felt like sharing. You moms are doing a good job, yea, i know you don’t think so, but we can handle it…. there are moms and babies that have it far worse then i do, i just have to remember that. They are a gift, nomatter how difficult it can get.
Put them down if they need to scream a little, go out get some fresh air for a second/ or scream if you need to and then return feeling a little bit better.
Take care mommies and daddys…and take each day on it’s own :)
Nadine
A mommy always in need~
hi dana
my wee 6 in half month girl brooklynn has a body clock of 1am and 4 am every morning i am breastfeeding, is this just a habbit that i can break? dusnt really sleep during day if so in morniing for an hour
I have a 2 1/2 year old who has never slept through the night not to mention he sleeps in our bed. My husband and I are going out of our minds and the stress and lack of sleep is affecting all of us. We broke Maxwell of the bottle at 2yrs. only to use a sippy cup which has basically defeated the purpose because he asks for more juice all night long. Our pediatrician said that some kids just don’t get enough to keep them full at night. This is crazy. We have tried putting him in his bed after he falls asleep and he wakes up screaming until I go get him and bring him back to our bed. I know we give into him so that we can get some sleep because we are sleep deprived zombies most of the time. I feel like such a failure and am so exhaused. Our older son Mason slept through the night on his 2nd birthday and I was hoping for the same with Maxwell with no luck. He will be 3 in December and I just can’t handle this anymore. Please help. thank you.
my son is 4 months going on 5 in a few days, by the time he was 3 months he would sleep throughout the night now he puts himself to sleep but in the middle of the night he wakes up screaming crying nothing seems to soothe him back to sleep. i dont know what to do so he won’t wake up screaming do u have any suggestions? or is this normal, first time mom so i don’t really know if it’s normal for some baby’s to do this.
Thank you for posting! My 6 month old has been a cat-napper since he was born. I tried your advice that day, and it worked perfectly! He’s sleeping so much better now. Thanks a bunch!!
Hi Dana,
My daughter is 10 months old, she takes two naps during the day, she sleeps at 8pm and wakes up between 12 and 1 am screaming, and again at 4am, and every time she wakes up it takes her an hour to go back to sleep. she normally sleeps in her cot all by herself, but during the night when she wakes up i try to rock her back to sleeps ,but she refuses to be held and to be put down in her cot. i am very tired because i dont know how to deal with this problem.
thank you.
my 18 month old daughter used to be such a good sleeper. At bed time she would let both parents walk her to her room, she’d crawl into bed, and just go right to sleep. For the past week or week and a half she will not go to sleep in her room alone, like she used too. She wants one of us to be in her room with her, sitting on the side of her bed, or cuddling her to sleep??? HELP! It seems as if she is either scared or going through some security thing?? Any suggestions on how to get her back to the way she was, falling alseep on her own, would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank You
Hi, my 10 month old son can go to sleep now by himself but i he sleeps on the floor and at the beginning of the night i lie down with him and close my eyes and in afew minutes he lies down beside me and goes to sleep.during the night if he wakes up i repeat the process again and then go to my room.doese this mean that he has learned to go to sleep by himself or not.
p.s. I t has been a week that i do’nt nurse during the night
thanks
Hi Dana,
My son is a great sleeper. We put him to bed around 8 pm and he doesn’t fight us at all. However, many nights around 9:30 or 10, he will wake up crying and sometimes standing in his crib until we go in and calm him down. We would like to understand why this is occurring and what we can do to help. He is two.
Thanks so much,
Julie
Good morning Dana,
I have a 2 1/2 and 5 1/2 year old girls who have been sharing a bedroom for the last 6 months. When my youngest sort of wakes, kicking and crying but eyes closed, it wakes my oldest and then she’s upset and then everyone is awake and the cycle continues. How do I deal with the 2 children in the same room? I don’t have an extra room to separate them and school is just about to start and I got to get the kids some good sleep.
thanks in advance,
sherri
My 15 month old just went to a babysitter after being home with me for the summer. When he was home with me he would go down after lunch and take a two hour nap. He is refusing to sleep for the babysitter and if he finally does go to sleep when he is exhausted, he will only sleep for about 30 minutes. She doesn’t like to hear him cry so she can’t do the cry it out method. (We used you version of the cry it out method and that is how we got him used to sleeping for us at home both at night and for naptime.) Any suggestions?
Hi,
Thanks for all the feedback but even though we are putting Aiden to sleep abit earlier now, he is still waking up about 3-4 times during the night. One thing I have noticed recently is that he will wake and be crawling or sitting on the bed and I am wondering if that qualifies as sleepwalking and then when you pick him up or try to lay him down again, he will scream and scream and nothing seems to stop it. Being at work, the broken sleep at night is really starting to get to me especially as I deal with young people at work. Please help!!
Dana, help me! My son seems to want to nap at the wrong time! He goes to bed at 630pm he used to wake at 7am (it is now between 530 and 630), but then he wants to go back for a nap at 830 – and if he has his way – he would sleep till 1130. He then isnt tired until about 3ish. I need to find an easy solution as i work and he is in family care two days and each grandmother looks after him for a day.
Hi Dana,
I followed your sleep training program at night and my 9 month old daughter does sleep these days without much of our assistance..I leave her in her cot after a good breastfeed in half drowsy state at night and she goes to sleep (by sleeping on her front..is that ok??). The question is she still wakes up after 5 hrs. What do i do then?? Do i offer her water or do i offer her feed?? Currently I take her to my bed as i am too tired and in sleep myself, at that time. But would love to see her sleep in her own cot the whole night. Please help.
Thanks,
Svetla
Hi Dana,
My son Hayden is 14months old, he usually has two sleeps a day but at the moment he is having one sleep which is his morning sleep and Im finding it hard to get him down in the afternoon. The problem is by the afternoon he is so over tired, cranky and having little tantrums, i then find it hard to get him into bed at night…he does go down to bed eventually, but he kicks around and cries alot before he goes down….would you have any suggestions, or why this is happening all of a sudden…? He is going through a growth spurt and he has lots of teeth coming up from the back, would this be part of the reason? Thanks Karen
Argh! My five month old little “prince” is still waking 1-3 times a night. not really hungry just wanting comfort from his mum. I put him to bed at 8.30 hes awake by midnight then every 3 hours after that! He has 3 half hour to an hour naps during the day which i love! but would reeeeeeeeeeeally love some help to make him sleep through the night.
Hi Dana,
my 10 month old daughter is breastfed/or rocked to sleep every night, and during naptimes. I know I’m supposed to have her fall asleep on her own, but whenever I put her down in her crib, she always gets up and walks around the crib, holding her lovey, crying. How do I get her to fall asleep on her own, when she won’t even stay lying down? I haven’t had any luck other than taking her for a walk in her stroller, rocking her or nursing her to sleep. She used to sleep through the night for a few months after being nursed (without any naps during the day at all!) but ever since she started eating solids and learned to crawl, she wakes up every 3 hours or so at night. (she now naps twice a day). I don’t nurse her as often, and she’s a very picky eater, so I’m wondering if she’s still hungry at night and that’s why she keeps getting up. I’d love to teach her how to fall asleep on her own, and to sleep through the night. Please help!
I am still having trouble getting my son (8 months) to sleep later that 5am. He will sleep from 7pm-5am (which is great, but at 5, he is not finished sleeping). After going in (seeing he is still so sleepy), reminding him it is not morning and still sleepy time, leaving him and repeating until the earliest of 6:00, we finally get up. He is ready for his morning nap by 8:00 since he is tired from his 5:00am wake up. Any other tips about getting him to get passed the 5:00 hurdle? SHould I let him cry it out at that time of the morning? or would that make things worse? If only we could make it til 6.
Hey Dana,
I love your tips; they continue to help me. (They especially help me convince my husband and family that I am not crazy for wanting the kids to be able to sleep on their own, without us as a crutch…) I have a 28 month old and 5 month old son. I forward your messages and info to all my mommy friends too. (If any of them spent money, you can send my commission to my paypal accout…ha just kidding.) Some are too stubborn to take your simple advice which is really common sense when you think about it. Though I think it often takes someone else telling you what you should do, when you are sleep deprived and manipulated by your own (often crying) child. Needless to say, I am writing because I was wondering if you wanted to borrow some sunscreen?
;o)
Ashley
Elementary Art Teacher
Hi Dana
I am still having trouble with my 18 month old daughter sleeping through the night and I have another baby on the way. It seems to go in cycles. She will start waking at four am for about a week, then it will move to three am and then about 12 am and after she is awake once I am up all night. And then at the end of the cycle she will sleep through to 6 am in the morning but that only ever last one night. I am getting quite tired with my pregnancy and would love to get her out of these cycles.
We have had a bed time routine since she was 6 months old, and I usually sit in the room until she falls asleep but I don’t talk to her and I am quite a distance from her cot.
Would love some suggestions.
Hi,
My 11 mth old has started to crawl a little while ago and is sitting up in bed through the night and can’t work out how to lie down again – so I have to get up and lie him down – by which stage he has completely woken up and is very hard to get back to sleep – sometimes I even have to feed him! He has never been a great sleeper, this has just added another element/hurdle and I am at my wits end with it!!! Should I just let him cry and hope he will fall asleep by himself?
Also my son is a very light sleeper and unfortunately, as a result my partner and I tiptoe around while he is asleep, so he is now accustomed to sleeping with light music and no other noise. He wakes so easily, even if one of us coughs – this is very straining on our relationship. How can we live our lives normally and still keep him asleep? We do have music on in his room to drown out most noises – but he will still wake.
Many, many thanks,
Kate.
Hi Dana
My 7 month old daughter has just started to sleep through the night,but the only problem is, she wakes up at 5am and won’t go back to sleep. I end up giving her a bottle and she stays awake for an hour then goes back to sleep at 6am for about 2hours. How can i get her to sleep longer so she isn’t so tired in the mornings?
Hi I forgot one question
If bed time is 7:30/8:00 how late in the day should i let him nap?
Hi I have A few Questions about my 3 month old son that I hope you might be able to answer.
1. How many hours should he sleep through 24 hours?
2. How many naps should he be taking?
3. How much time between naps should he be up?
4. Should i ever wake him from his naps?
5. I’m always scard that by him napping through the day that he wont sleep through the night or that he may wake up more through the night do you think that might happen?
Thank you so much your website has helped me out so much
Jamie
Hi,
My 3.5mth old daughter has always been a good sleeper at night (7hrs at 2.5weeks and 10-12hrs from 5 weeks). And, she’s always easy to get to bed at night – feed burp and put into bed awake. But, she has also always been resistent to taking daytime naps (I can spend 1-2hrs trying to get her down for a sleep). She’s never grumpy for it and will go down if she is really really tired – but it’s not unusual for her to be awake and alert for several hours. What she does do is catch brief naps after feeding – though she’ll not go down in her cot. I’m not sure it is something to be concerned about – maybe she just prefers to sleep at night, but it does worry me.
Hi Dana. my son jayden takes a few naps during the day and well he sleeps a good hour, sometimes just 20mins! well my big issue i have is he is still waking up in the middle of the night for more feedings! i feed hiim a good amount before lights out so that hes nice and full. what else could it be?
My 7 month old has never been a great sleeper, but we’ve usually managed to find solutions for each problem, often using your advice. However I cannot find any advice for his latest sleep issue anywhere.
He has started waking 3 or 4 times in the night and whining, then crying. However he has his eyes closed all the time. It often takes 2 hours to soothe him back to sleep as he will nod off but then start crying hysterically again after 1o min or so. However his eyes are closed the whole time – could he be dreaming? This goes on all night and finally about 6am we ‘wake’ him properly to stop the crying. As soon as he is properly awake (eyes open) he is all smiles. Please help as I can’t find any info on this anywhere. Thanks.
Mydaughter is 1 year old and still does not got through the night. We have not long go back from a long holiday but she had to share a bed with me and my partner, which i think has caused this problem,i have tried to put her back in her cot but she wakes up crying every hour or so. I am getting very tired and fed up now and i’m not sure what else i can do or if she will ever go through the night again?!
My daughter is 17months old, and were now having trouble getting her to sleep. We use to be able to put her down in her cot for and afternoon sleep and at bedtime, and she would quite happly play then drift of to sleep, but for the last week when put in her cot, as soon as we leave the room, she crys or screams… sometime she gets herself in such a state it takes a while to calm her down…..what can I do so shes happy again? thank you
ok my son will go to sleep around 8 9′oclock..stay asleep for a good 2 hrs 3 hrs on a good night…then wake up screaming his brains out and he will repeat this sleeping pattern for the remaing of the night ugh it scares me and drives me insane…because i work full time m-f but my sleep habits are all off bc his are im loosing my mind! i put him in bed with me to sleep, feed him, sing to him and nothing! all i get is ringing ears 3am…please help : (
Hello Dana
I follow your blog regularly and I must say I have used many tips and they are fantastic. My little boy is just over 3. He goes to bed at 8.30 p.m and wakes up at 7.30 a.m which I am ok with. However there are two problems:-
1. since he has been a baby he wakes up frequently and wants a drink. He does drink quite a lot during the day as well. Consequence I wake up a lot as well as his bed is in our room.
2. He makes conversations in his sleep and even cries and seems to have tantrums. Is this normal. He does not wake up but is subconscious but does create lots of noise.
I wonder if you can help.
thnks
HI DANA I PUT JORDEN TO BED AROUND 7 730PM HE SLEEPS FOR A 3 4 HOURS EVERYNIGHT HE WAKES UP AT THE SAME TIME BETWEEN 1 AND 2AM AND WONT GO BACK TO SLEEP IN HIS OWN CRIB THE ONLY WAY HELL STAY ASLEEP IS IF I PUT HIM IN MY BED WITH ME IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO…….
My daughter is 10 weeks old today. At night she goes down to sleep between 7 and 8 and sleeps for about 5-6 hours. She then wakes up for a bottle and won’t go back to sleep for any longer than an hour. Am I expecting to much for a 10 week old to go back to sleep for another extended period of time?
My daughter is now 5 months and goes to sleep by 5:30pm wakes at 7:30 goes off by 9:30 and back up by 12 goes off by 2:30 and sleeps till 5 am still staying up in the night for 2 hrs before going back to sleep.Its killing me!!! When she wakes at 12 the light is off and i change her and feed her but she wants to play at that time. She is also teething.
My baby girl is 6 months old and still sleeps like a newborn at night I breastfeed and thats what she wants to do in the middle of the night any tips?? Thanks
My 10 month old is a horrible napper. She sleeps soundly at night from about 8-9pm to 7-8 am, but when she wakes up for the day, that’s it. She will ususally get fussy around 1 pm or so, I’ll rock her to sleep and right when I go to lay her down, she’ll sit up in bed and start screaming. Occassionally, she will take a cat nap in her carseat or stroller during the day, but for 30 minutes tops. The other issue is that recently, when she refuses any nap, she will get very tired and crabby around 5pm. I have tried to put her down for the night at that time, but inevitably she always wakes up after an hour or so and is up until 11pm! By the time she’s finally in bed for the night, I’m so tired that I can’t get anything done or relax.
My son turned 2 on August 13. He has always slept really well, be it naps or nite sleeping. A few months ago, he started not wanting to go to bed until 10 or 11 at night IF he took a nap, so we stopped doing afternoon naps, but about that same time he started waking up between 12 and 3 am and will not go back to sleep unless I am holding him or put him in my bed. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Thanks so much,
Jamie Young
My 15 month old does not sleep peacefully her hands or feet are always jurking and this I think causes her to wake up frequently and not get a good nights sleep. HELP!
my son is 7 months old and he goes to sleep around 10pm-10:30 and wakes up anywhere between 4?:am-7am
my goal is to have him go to bed around 8-9 pm and have him wake up about 8am any suggestions?
I used to give her a bottle in my arms and she would fall asleep and then i would put her down in her bed and she would about 50% of the time sleep through the night and the other half she would wake up once through the night. The only way to get her back to sleep was to give her a bottle. Just after she turned one she started to give me trouble going to sleep in my arms so I would lie down in my bed with her to put her to sleep and then put her in her crib, but I didnt want her to get use to going to sleep in my our bed so I converted her crib into a day bed. Then for a few weeks I would read her the 2 same stories and say our prayers beside her bed and then just rub her back and comfort her until she fell asleep in her own bed. She became very silly when I was trying to get her to sleep after the books were finished so I decided that if she was going to cry with me in her room with her I would follow the same routine of the books and then when the reading was done I would leave the room. She cried 15 minutes the first night and then it would just be 30 seconds and she would go to sleep by herself. Now she is 18 months and cries when you even say the word sleep or bed. I cannot even get her to go in her room during the day. She cries when we go in there after her bath, and if she is asleep and I put her down in her bed she wakes up screaming and i cannot get her back to sleep. She sleeps in our bed with us and wakes up as soon as we wake. SHe use to sleep very good, you could move her out of your arms, stroller, car seat or anything and she wouldnt wake but now she wakes very easy. I do home daycare and cannot lie down with her to have a nap so she falls asleep in her highchair after she eats, and before if she did that I could put her in her bed but now she wakes up right away. I work with children and help other parents with advice on thier children but I feel like I have no control over my child. Please help me I am soooooo tired of her sleep habits.
Anya goes to sleep at 8pm without any difficulty, she takes a 1 1/2hr nap mid day, but almost every night she wakes up crying at 3am. She has an hour “quiet time” before bedtime. Any suggestions?
Vance is 9 months old and still wakes up every 4 hours to eat…HELP…Goes to bed for the night at 7 then wakes at 10 then at 1 then at 5:30am and needs a bottle EVERY single time. He will scream if he wakes up and needs a diaper change etc and I do not feed him…? What should I do”?
I have a 27 mo. old who has been trained on Sleepsense since she was 5 mo., and what heavenly bliss it has been! Recently, however, she has begun protesting bedtime and naptime, so that the routine is a dreaded ordeal. She sleeps in her crib from about 8:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and naps at 1:30 for about 2 or 2.5 hrs. We have had the same bedtime routine for a long time – sometimes a bath, into jammies, a couple stories, kiss everyone goodnight, and off to bed. But now she screams and cries so that we have to coax her through it, and she cries going to sleep for 5-15 min. This has been going on for a couple months. Is there anything I can do?
Thanks for all your help, and I cannot recommend your program enough,
Cathy
Xander is not eating enough at dinner, so after his serving of Milk before bed is not filling him enough to sleep through the night. He sleeps through on occasion, but it is getting really fustrating. Please help!!!
Athena
Aidan goes down fairly easy around 7:00 to 7:30 for the nite, however, around midnite almost everynite, maybe sometimes later, he becomes restless and cries, when I do go in to pat his back or comfort him, I notice that he always has his eyes shut, but is restless, like kicking his legs and like he can’t settle down and get comfortable. He does have the acid reflux some, but I don’t think bad, he is on medication from his pediatrician for this. Not sure what to think of his restlessness, it takes about an hour to get him settled back down.
Hi Dana
I hope you can help.
My 6 month old son was, until about 6 weeks ago, sleeping at night from about 7.30pm to 3am, waking then for a feed and going back to sleep until 6-7am. However, since then, he has been waking every night about 4 hours after I put him down to sleep, having a feed, going back to sleep but waking again another 3-4 hours later for another feed! Oftentimes, he is wide awake at both of these times, despite keeping the room dark and quiet, and I can’t get him to sleep for an hour or so. I am returning to work soon and do not know how I will cope if his sleep pattern remains like this. Please help!
Yours
Sue
My 23 month old daughter has always been a fantastic sleeper, she’d basically tell us when shes wanting to go to bed every night at 7 o’clock. But the past month has been a nightmare! She’s started hating night time! shes screams so much that she makes herself sick over and over again. I’ve tried routines and baths before bed, changing her naps during the day and also making sure she doesnt have much to eat before bedtime. Sometimes it takes me up to 4 hours to finally get her to sleep, and thats only because shes that exhausted! Please help me! Thankyou.
Hi Dana,
My almost 8 mos old has been rolling onto his stomach during the night and during his naps which wakes him up. He doesn’t know how to roll back to his stomach and starts crying because he’s “stuck”. When I go to his room to turn him over, he cries even harder because he sees me (or my husband) and wants to be picked up. Last night he cried for 30 minutes before he fell back to sleep. Should I let him learn to sleep on his stomach at this age. I’m concerned about SIDS or how do i prevent him from rolling onto his stomach until he learns to roll back onto his back on his own.
Thanx
My daughter goes to sleep fine in her crib at bedtime, but in a couple of hours she gets up & wants to come in our bed or get up & stay up. How or what is the best way to stop her from doing this? I try to stay but she just screams & cries.
How can I change Jovanny Eliel’s routine of waking up at 3/4 am and stays awake for a period of 2 hrs or so?
Jovanny Eliel is 3 months at the time and he seems to wake up at or about 3/4 a.m. and stays awake for 2 hrs or so. How can I change this routine? He usually goes to sleep around 9ish give or take and wakes every 2 or so for his feeding(s).
Hi Dana,
My daughter Deanna (who is now 10 months old) keeps waking up in the middle of the night just to be held back to sleep. As soon as I pick her up…she falls right to sleep and as soon as I put her in her crib, she wakes up. I know that my parents who watch her 3 times a week usually put her to sleep in there arms before they put her in the crib (and they don’t seem to care what I have to say about it cause it’s easier for them). So I do the same thing too. Is this what is happening? Does she always want to be held now to sleep? What can I do? I’m sleeping while I drive – very dangerous. I need to get more sleep at night – and so does she.
Thank you,
Josephine
Hello,
I have a 22 month old daughter “Alexis” that goes to daycare from 10am-5pm. She used to take a nap each day for an hour, now that she is not in a crib at daycare (she is on a mat) she never naps in the daytime anymore, she is very distracted with all the other kids. This causes her to be very cranky by 5pm. What can we do?
My son is 5 months old and a great sleeper at night, but does not take good naps. He only naps about 30 minuets here or there during the day. What can I do to help him take better naps?
Dear Dana.
We now have your book and I have started to read it.
Yasmin has a twin brother Luke and so I would be very grateful if you would advise a bedtime routine (as mentioned in your email “The secret trick to getting your child to sleep”) including the both of them. Also, I was wondering as they wake up anytime between (*5)-6am. Does that mean that we should be putting them to bed earlier? ie at 6.30pm instead of 7.30pm? (equalling their “roughly speaking” 12 hour sleep) – (ie are our twins 6am wakers, something they will always be as they mostly wake at this time and not the 7am time?).
ps I am reading your book as is ie not just reading the chapters that I think apply to me .. and therefore haven’t got to the twin section yet.
Best regards
Bei
*just read about the 5am waking last night which you advise to treat as night time.
My daughter turned 5 months on the 20th, she was taken at 34 weeks due to placenta previa and preterm labor, she is still not sleeping through the night, she still wakes up every 3-4 hours to eat, most of my friends that have babies are getting a full nights sleep since their baby was 3-4 months old, what can I do to get her to sleep through the night?
Baby does not sleep well, ever. Is awake most of the day (not collicky-just awake and not entirely happy) and at night sleeps well from 9 to 1a.m. Then is fed and never really settles back down. I am exhausted but don’t know what else to do. I swaddle him at night, which works for the first half of the night. The rest of the night he squeaks and wiggles and groans and never relaxes. He has circles under his eyes. (8 wks old) HELP
Hi Dana,
I’ve been reading your blog lately and it has been very helpful.
My 9 month old is starting to crawl and trying to walk.
He’s so excited about it he wakes up at least 6 times a night trying to practice it.
Unfortunately he’s too tired and ends up crying until either my husband or I come to the rescue.
We both work so needless to say we’re exhausted. What can we do to make this an easier transition for him?
Also we’re leaving for Europe for 2 weeks soon to visit family and we fear that he’ll get even more anxious.
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much,
Clarissa