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.
This week’s question comes from Toni and she writes:
“I have twin boys who share a room but not the same crib. They are six months old and they wake up two to four times a night. I just do not know what to do. I feel like I cannot let them cry because one is going to wake up the other one.”
That is a great question, Toni, and it’s an issue for many people who have twins or even just siblings that share a room or even siblings that are in separate rooms. The worry is always if you let one cry, then the other one is going to wake up and then everyone is awake. My answer to that is that while that might happen, it also might be what needs to happen in order to get both the boys sleeping right through the night.
But first you want to back up and have a look at how the boys go to sleep at bedtime. You want to make sure that there is a routine in place and that whatever your routine is, it should be in the same order every night and sleeping should not have started anywhere in the routine.
You never want to nurse or rock to sleep; the routine should just be steps that lead up to going to bed. Once they are in their cribs, then the falling asleep takes place. If you have got them both in the same room, you could do the stay in the room method for twins where you are present and you are being supportive; saying some key phrases and doing a little bit of comforting with touch to allow them to figure out the way to get themselves to sleep. Once they have mastered those skills at bedtime, those skills will start transferring to the rest of the night.
It is going to take a little bit of work for them to figure out what these skills are and the only way to get there is to go through it. Do the best you can, without interfering with the learning of sleep strategies. You do not want to rush in there every time one starts crying for fear that it is going to wake up the other because then you are just sort of perpetuating this idea that the baby needs you to do something in order for him to go back to sleep. It is challenging with two children but by six months of age, there is really no reason why they can not be sleeping through the night or pretty close to it.
I would get started right away Toni, so that the boys learn the skills they need for being great sleepers!
Thanks for your question… and sleep well!
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I have twin girls who are 3 years and 5 months and a two year old son. All of the children sleep in their own rooms. I have recently moved all of the children into beds with their favorite sheets and covers. One of the twins, Rachel, wakes up almost every night and will not go back to sleep until I either sleep with her, or take her into my bed. I am afraid that she will wake the others, and invariably give in to her demands. Would it be a good idea to put the girls in the same room? When we have tried it for nap time, they usually talk and giggle and don’t get to sleep. I think that Rachel is frightened, although there is a light on in the hallway. I don’t use the word as I don’t want to make her think of that. What do I do?
I have 4 month old twins – 1 sleeps 13 hours and the other 8-10 (sa he doesn’t settle himself back as well) which I’m really pleased with but they are in seperate rooms. We really wanted them to be in the same room but they do not seem to sleep as well. We end up with 4-6 hours sleep sessions rather than the long ones. If I put them back together when they are older will they not disturb as easily or should I just bite the bullet and put them back together now and deal with their waking… will they eventually learn to ignore the other one. We have a bed time routine of the same room, in the dark, bottle (no bath as they dont like them at present) we put them in their baskets and leave the room to allow them to settle themselves … we had been rocking them but we stopped that a few weeks ago and it only took them a couple of nights to catch on .. thanks for that advise ! – hope you can help with this dilema
I am the mom of 10mth old twins who were born 6 wks premature. They are used to falling asleep with a 4-5 oz bottle (in which I’m trying to break but I’m not very successful at it right now).
I have established the routine that after daycare (which they are there appx 6 hours per day), they come home and have 30-45 minutes playtime. During their playtime, I’m preparing their dinner. I feed them, in their high chairs. After dinner, I let them stay in high chair for about 15 minutes then I let them on their floor mat so they may play. I let them play for about an hour or so. Afterward, I give each one a bath…one at a time. I then give them their last bottle of the night as they’re going to bed.
I use to give a bottle in middle of night. I’ve since stopped. The older of the twins sleeps appx 7-8 hours straight. The younger of the twins is now waking up after 4-5 hours sleep and crying/fussing. Even if I give him a bottle after pulling him out of the bed, he does not want to go back to sleep…it takes him 1-2hours to go back to sleep.
They take 1-2 naps at day care. They eat lunch at daycare that I’ve provided and on occassion if I have an early day at work, they will eat their breakfast that I provide at daycare.
I’m really trying to put this schedule together but I have no idea what’s making my one son wake up every 4-5 hours in middle of night when he didn’t use to.
I fear he will wake his brother up too.
What can I do to correct this?
I have triplets that are 14 months old and one doesnt sleep through the night and the others wake up at 5am for milk. If I left my son cry it out he becomes so upset he chokes on his salvia etc. How can i get them all to sleep through the night. i am at my wits end as i need sleep.
Hi Dana my baby Scott is a month and a half old ( he was four weeks early ) and he want sleep in his cot!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
ann
My son goes to daycare 5 days a week. Recently he is having problem of napping at daycare, but he is naps twice when he is with me. Of course, I have to nurse him to sleep. How should I deal with this?
How can a get my 1 year old to take longer naps during the day. She is still using her swing for her morning and mid day naps. How can i get her sleeping in her crib for her naps. She sleeps in her crib when i put her down and she usually is down at 7:30pm till 6am (no waking up at night)
Our daughter slept through the night with no problems by about 4 weeks of age this lasted until she was nearly 5 months old. At that point we moved to another country and noticed that she stopped sleeping through the night and her sleep pattern changed. Our baby is now 6 months old and we continue to have difficulties getting her to bed before 8:30 or 9:00 we start her routine early in the evening (she only see small signs used to go to sleep at 7:30 or 8:00) and though we can tell she is tired and ready to sleep, she fights it for an hour or two even after a bath, a massage and a good solid nursing session.
Her naps are fine, usually a morning nap at 10:30 for 30 minutes to one hour followed by a 2 hour afternoon nap from about 2:00-4:00. Occasionally she will take a nap in between the morning nap and afternoon nap and then take a shorter afternoon nap. I do notice that she sometimes is awakens as she is settling in for her nap and then is unable to fall asleep. There is only a one hour time difference between our new home and our old time zone, so we doubt the changes in sleep are due to time differences. Its been 1.5 months and she is still not back to her normal pattern (and we are now exhausted). Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for any thoughts on the matter.
Pamela
Hi, Dana!
Im a mother of 2 kids. Boy 2 y.o & daughter 8 months.
My son (27 months) till now had never ever slept through night :-(
His sleep time 9:00PM
He wakes up every 3 or 4 hours (till 17 months used to be every 2 hours), asks a bottle of milk, or he wants me to hold him, or he wants to come to my bed..or he wants to watch TV..
sometimes he doesn’t want anything BUT he won’t sleep until I come to his room & promise him bottle of milk..otherwise he will cry, shout, scream..very very nervously..shaking..:-(..
I tried every formula with with him
before bed walking with him in a park..taking him to teh park he to get tired..feeding him, so he won’t get hungry in night..bathing every day before bed
or left him crying for an hour or more in night…
..screaming..things were getting more worse..
but every time when he wakes up & cries for me..he is getting so nervous so I cant let him to carry on that way :-(
I know Im the worse mother in world becoz I DIDNT TEACH HIM IN TIME TO SLEEP THROUGH NIGHT & he is struggling now :-(
he is not getting his sleep..getting shacked ..nervous, aggressive…frustrated
Im not getting my sleep, & whole day Im like overdrunk..doing all my chores as a robot
my son our 1st child..& we always were afraid to disturb neighbors ..& i was picking up him from bed asap as he opens his mouth :-(
he even used to sleep with us in same bed..
recently i moved his crib to another room, but he won’t get his proper sleep through night as toddler at his age suppose to
every 3-4 hours calling for me :-( doesn’t matter I sleep in his room or not..
i hope u will choice my question too to help me ..
Im very upset, i dont know how to help him..i dont know how to put things in my home to the right track
thank you very much, Dana
My 2.5 year old always was in the best sleep patterns, and we worked hard to get her there. Now she wakes up not too long after she falls asleep on her own in her toddler bed. For two weeks I would go in and cover her back up after she would cry loudly over and over. Then after two weeks she started running into our room, and over and over I would take her back for three nights in a row. It got so loud and out of control that my husband who gets up at 4 am everyday for work was getting very irritated. He became very unsupportive and started letting her in our bed, which we always said we’d never do. Now he and she sleep fine, but I am becoming embittered b/c I feel that she has won this battle. Grantid, now I don’t have to deal with her screaming fits, trying to keep her in her room, and his getting upset and startling me does not happen, but I know this cannot go on forever, and it’s not healthy. Please give me some ideas of what to do to get her to go back to her bed without the huge fits that my husband cannot seem to handle because his sleep is near gone then. Keep in mind we went through it for two weeks and then three nights that were even worse after that. Thanks so much for your time that you take to read these!
Hi
My son is 4 months old. I’m breastfeeding him exclusively. At night he’s waking on average of twice a night and the crying is quite intense even after only a minute. I pick him up within a few minutes, feed him, change him and he happily goes back to sleep (90% of the time). I’m wondering how (if appropriate) I can extend his sleep or have him self settle without feeding/picking up at this age? Thanks Renee (Australia)
Kenny will be 1 on the 28th of this month and she is still not sleeping in her own bed and it is really starting to bother me. I hate to hear her cry because I feel as if I am neglecting her. What else can I do? One day she cried for 45 minutes. I can not stand it so I would put her back in my bed.
Hi Dana,
I have a 2 year old, who has always been a relatively good sleeper. She went into her bed at around 20 months as she was starting to climb out of her cot. For the first month or so in her bed, we were able to tuck her in, say goodnight, and walk out of the room, and she would settle easily.
She now asks us to stay with her to fall asleep, and won’t settle herself if we don’t. We have moved from inside her room, to just outside the room, with the door slightly open, but she is still heavily reliant on our presence.
She generally wakes at least once a night, where again we need to remain outside her room for her to go to sleep. We have a very good night time routine for her each and every night.
How can we get her to a point where she feels comfortable to settle herself without our presence?
Hi, I make a mistake to move my 12 months baby to her first bed, but she is waking up and walking to my room 2 to 3 times during the night, some times I finish sleeping with her. Should I move her to her cot again?
My son, Andrew, will be turning 1 on August 18th. He takes 2 naps during the day (if I’m lucky) and I try to get him to bed early. The problem is keeping asleep in his crib. He tends to toss and turn in his crib and sometimes wakes up crying wanting to sleep in our bed. I try not to give in but it’s the only way we’ll get any sleep. Any suggestions?
One more thing. Once she is down she naps from 40 min to 1-2 hours. Then at night she generally sleeps 9-10 hours. When she sleeps she sleeps well it is just getting her there.
Hi Dana,
I have a 7 month old daughter. She is a good little girl and very happy. But, she still uses us to help her fall asleep. I have tried putting her down in her crib to fall asleep on her own and she just won’t. If she is beside me or my husband in our bed she will. After she is asleep we then transfer her to her crib. Sometimes she falls asleep with a bottle or us just walking her around or being rocked. If I leave her in her crib she cries bloody murder and has even banged her head against the headboard. Can you help me?
Hi,
My son is 17 months old now. he wont sleep until 10 pm.
he wakes up at 6.30 am. does not get up in the night.
but, he needs to lie down next to us to sleep.
He cant got to sleep on his own. If we are not around, then
he walks out of his place. He got his jaws hurt and was bleeding twice
when we tried to put him in his cot. So, we are worried about leaving him there..
Please suggest how to make him sleep 7-7
Hi Dana,
I have a 15 month old daughter, Jadyn, she is sleeping fairly well during the night she will usually put herself back to sleep. My question is regarding getting her to sleep. I used to nurse her and she would fall asleep and now I give her a bottle she doesn’t fall aslep drinking the bottle however she just lays her head on my shoulder and goes to sleep. I have tried laying her down when she is very drowsy but still awake and she pops right up and will either cry or want to play. I am also the only one to ever put her to sleep except maybe 2 or 3 other various nights since she has been born. How do I get her to allow my husband to give her the bottle and put her down? Also how do I get her to fall asleep on her own?
my son is 8 months old and does not sleep through the night. he wakes about every 3 hours or so. what can i do to get him to sleep through the night. he goes to sleep on his own with no problem at all.
I also have one more question which I forgot to ask in my last comment. During the day when Sean is awake he constently wants to be held. If I put him done for more that 5-10 mins he starts screaming. I can’t stand listening to it for very long if I try to ignore it (hoping he’ll stop but he never does) so I (or someone else) always ends up picking him up and then he’s happy as can be. It’s frustrating because if I’m the only one home, I cannot get anything done around the house or even take a shower for that matter because he’ll cry.
What can I do to stop this?
Thanks again.
Hi Dana,
My son, Sean, is almost 4 months old. (He is my first child) He’s never had a sleep routine. From the day I brought him home from the hospital I could not get him to sleep unless someone was holding him or he had a bottle. Sometimes I’ve gotten to the point were I would take him for a ride in the car or a walk in his stroller (depending on the time of day) to get him to sleep because he would not stop screaming his little head off. I know that is not a good idea because now he only depends on me more to get him back to sleep when he wakes at night. He goes to sleep every night between 8 and 9 (but only if he has a bottle) and there is no knowing when he will wake up. He wakes up usually 3 times a night and sometimes stays awake for a few hours. He will only fall back to sleep if someone holds/rocks him or if he has a bottle. Also during the day he does not take naps very well. If I can get him to take a nap he usually only takes 1 a day and will only sleep for 30 mins to an hour.
What can I do to get him to calm himself (and not depend on me) to get him to sleep through the night?
And also what can I do to get him to take more naps during the day? Or if he sticks to his 1 nap a day how can I get him to take a longer one?
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much!
signed, VERY SLEEPY NEW MOTHER! :)
Hi Dana,
We have two children, 1 at 6 and one at 2 and a half.
Sarsha our eldest has only started sleeping through in the last 12 month & hamish our 2 year old is not.
Our ploblem is that he goes to sleep ok but continues to get out of his cot and jump into our bed.
My wife & I have endured this broken sleeping for 6 years now and have had enough.
Its affecting our every day lives now and were not able to function as normal because we are soooooo tired.
Can you help us?
Hi Dana,
I also have 9 month old twins, Atlas and Ariana. I have them sleeping in separate rooms for fear of them waking each other up. But I would like to get them back in the same room. What is the best way to do this? Ariana sleeps well and sometimes can put her self back to sleep when wakes up and doesn’t need feeding until morning, but Atlas has a mid-night bottle and wakes up around 4 times a night. They both use soothers. Should I just keep them apart?
Hello, I’m a mother of 3 children…ages 14, 11 and youngest who just turned 1..
Well Adrienne has not been sleeping good at all!! I emailed you awhile back. At 5 months old, I took her off the soother…
Adrienne has not slept for 7 & 8 hrs straight. Her longest without waking up, maybe 5 hrs.
Lately she’s been going to bed at 1-2am. Waking up about 3 to 4 times during the night for a drink…(bottle) I’ve also given her water and she’ll drink it all. If I choose not to give her a bottle, she’ll cry for a long period of time.
Sometimes she might go to bed around 9:30pm to 10.00pm, but just to wake up at 1-2am and stay up for hours afterwards..
I’m frustrated, tired, and never had this hard of a time with my other kids.
She’s also late cutting teeth aswell…
Sleep? What’s that? ha….ha
Hi Dana
I recentlypurchased your progam for my 6 week old. She went onto a routine a few days after she came back from the hospital and i bathed, massaged, fed and sang to her each time before bed. She has always settled well at night and soothes herself to sleep. Her naptime were a disaster though, she catnapped and would only sleep in a lit room. I let her do this for 5 weeks and recently since using your program have started a nap time routine and then darkening her room and putting her down to nap. She fussed and cried a lot but on day 3 she did her first morning nap without fussing. Fell alseep within a few min and has been sleeping for almost an hour now without waking inbetween sleep cycles as she did before. My concern is as she is still so young, will she start confusing day and night, she has never done so as she used to nap in lit room. Lastnight she fussed for the first time when I put her down for sleep and she cried and took an hour to fall asleep, this has never happened before. I am a bit worried she might start sleeping well during the day and then start fussing and crying at night. Do you recommend her sleeping in her moses basket in a darkened room at this age? She learns quickly and loves routines and has taken to napping pretty quickly.
My 5 month old daughter wakes in the middle of the night and WILL NOT get herself back to sleep. We try going in every 5 minutes, increasing the amount of time between visits, letting her cry it out…nothing works…and yes, we are consistent. She just keeps crying, for over an hour. She is not hungry, not poopy, she just fights sleep. We try not to give her the paci but even if we get desperate and give it to her, it typically doesn’t do anything other than quiet her for a few minutes, if that. She had no problem going to sleep at bedtime around 8:30PM, awake. She sleeps until at least 2-3AM then the crying begins. What do you do for a restless baby??
We have a 12 month old who has just started sleeping through the night but wakes most nights at 5am. We resettle him, which usually doesn’t take very long, but then he is awake at approx 6am or 6.30am. Is there anything we can do to make him sleep right through to at least 7am? He goes to bed at 7pm.
Another issue we are having is that he has 2 hrs sleep in the morning (starting at 9.30 to 10am, depending on his out of bed time but very rarely goes to sleep in the afternoon. We put him in his cot for the afternoon sleep at approx 2.30 to 3.pm (depending when he wakes up from his morning sleep) and he generally cries for the whole hour we are in the room. What can we do to make the afternoon sleeps less stressful for all involved?
My 12 month old will go to sleep on his own if I lie next to him (on a mattress on the floor – he won’t do this in his cot). When he wakes between sleep cycles he cries for me. This means frequent (up to 12 times a night) wakings, less if I sleep with him (which I often do out of a desire for sleep). He used to be an all night nurser but I night weaned to see if it would help but I think I may have replaced one sleep association with another. Do I need to start moving away as he falls asleep, so he is okay with being alone when he wakes?
my 6 month old daughter has been sleeping from bout 8:30 til 7:30 from when she was younger then bout 3 months but now all of a sudden she will not sleep in her cot everytime i put her down she cries i have tried many things but have no luck i have to hold her all night how can i make her sleep in her cot instead of my arms and for her to put herself to sleep??please help
Hi my 41/2 month old baby rolls over onto his tummy in the early hours of the morning. He then gets himself all tangled up with the cot. He then wakes up screaming because he can not move. He is a bit of a busy boy like his parents. Thanking you in advance
Hi,
My question is in regards to naps. Is it normal that my 15 month twin babies nap in the morning (aprox 2 hrs) or should I change the routine for them to nap in the afternoon instead?… I’ve noticed that by 7 they are very tired and I still have to bath them and give them their bottle.
my 9 month old daughter can put herself to sleep it when she wakes up i can easily put her back to sleep, but she still wakes up every 4 hours. why does she wake up?
hi dana thank you for everthing
my baby she is 8 moanth now she wakes up 12:30am she talke palay 2hoar every night.
her schedul is 7pm I need some rest please
help me thank you.
My 9 month-old baby is taking two 1-2 hour naps per/day and is typically able to fall asleep on her own within just a few minutes with little to usually no crying. However, at night, even with a structured and consistent routine, she cries for almost an hour or more as soon as she is put into the crib before she can fall asleep. What can we do to avoid the hour or more of crying and allow her to fall asleep easily like she does for her morning and noon time naps? Thank you!
I have an almost two year old who still won’t sleep though the night. She wakes up anywhere between once and three times a night and will not go back to sleep without a bottle. She shares a room with two other siblings, and her room is connected to ours. I’m afraid if I let her cry, she will not only wake up the other kids, but my husband as well (which isn’t exactly good because he has to be up early for work). I feel like my hands are tied and I am EXHAUSTED from not having a full night’s rest in two years. How can I get her to go back to sleep on her own without needing a bottle?? Thanks so much!!
i have a 1year old that just started to sleep throught the night but he always wakes up around 5 am screaming. sometimes he does not goes back to slept and then by 8 am he is very tired. what should i do.
thanks, this book help me so much with my first child but with my second because he was always sick i felt guilty to let him cry.
I want to get my 8 month old daughter to start putting herself to sleep but I have had no luck. I put her in her bed when she is tired and her normal routine has been followed but even if I stay right there she will scream (she is normally not a screamer). Quite often if she wakes at night she is able to put herself back to sleep but not when she is first going to sleep. She was sleeping excellent at 6 months from 7pm to 6:30am then she got sick and having teething pain and now she has no schedule of when she will wake up. I need some rest please help.
Hi, my baby wakes up at night screaming and then she will put herself back to sleep or sometimes she will continue to cry. Is this just a habit. She will usually ask for her bottle or sippy cup?
hi dana, its safiya,
im a single working mom, and yaqeen now refuses to sleep on his own. and i live alone with him. he is 10 months now, and still waking up 4 times every night!!!!!!!!!
hello,
My 15 month boy wakes up about 5am which is just too early in my opinion! How can I get him to sleep longer?
Thanks
Caylen is now 12 weeks and after sleeping from 8pm to 5/6am constantly for 3 weeks, hes now started waking up at 2/3am for a feed and then at 5/6am for another feed.we recently visited family and he went back to sleeping til 6am again and as soon as we are back home hes waking again.he also only naps for 30 min at a time only 3/4 times a day. any help?
My daughter Cydney responsed really well to your program, the only problem we have is when she is teething and when this happens she is up all night and will not go back to sleep without a bottle or being in bed with us. What do we do?????
My 2.1 year old only goes to sleep at 9pm/threrafter, we’ve tried so many different ways to change this – in fact, storytime only works her up as she gets so excited about the story!?ANd then she wakes quite a few times in the night and comes through to our bedroom – i take her back, there is no crying or perfprming, but its a great disturbance every night…what should we do?
My son is 1 month and he wakes every 2 hours and sometimes he dont go back to bed till hour 1/2 later.How can i help him go back to bed?
i have a 2yr old who refuses to sleep in his own bed in his own room by himself. i have tried the sitting beside the bed ignoring him and the putting him back every time he gets up tactic…it dosent work for me!!! he’ll cry and cry till he vomits and has tantrums that seem to last forever through the night!! i try not to rock him but just cuddle him till hr drops off which can sometimes take hours…
Hi, my daughter Carly is 3 months old. We bought your program when she was only a few weeks old. She picked up on it pretty quick and did really well for a while. She even weaned herself off of night feeds! About a week ago, she began waking up multiple times during the night. I wait for 10 minutes before responding and if she is awake, I change her diaper and feed her. She gets put back in her crib awake. Do you know why she has suddenly started waking up so many times and how can I fix it? Thank you.
I stopped breastfeeding my son at 18 months. He would fall asleep by nursing and I would take him to his bed and would wake up only once. For me to stop the breastfeeding completely, my husband took over the sleeping process. He walks him to sleep. The only problem is that he wakes up ten times during the night crying and wanting my husband to walk around with him. He is also teething pretty bad. But i’m not sure if this is part of the problem or not. What can we do different?
I put my 3 month old down for the night at about 8pm but most of the time I fight with him for about 2 to 3 hours before he finally fulls asleep. For naps during the day I put him down as soon as I see signs that he his tired and he’ll just fuss sometimes to the point that he doesn’t even nap.
Hi my two year old has started waking up at around 1 in the morning and climbing into out bed, she has been doing this for some time now and was wondering how I could try and stop this from happening. She goes to sleep in her own bed fine but always ends up in our bed
My wife and I are first-time parents. My son, little Joel (l.j.) has not been in an appropriate sleeping enviroment almost from birth almost eleven months ago. We just had no idea what we were doing. (still dont, but I’m getting better :). My question is regarding l.j. and his tendency to vomit when he is upset. We now know a bit more regarding a proper sleeping enviroment and are in process of implementing better patterns. But now that l.j. has this pattern of sleeping for a few hours at night, then waking and wanting to be fed or somebody to play with him, when we try to be firm and resolute, He begins to cry and will work himself into a frenzy until he vomits. How do we move past this?
also even when i rock him he throws himself back cries the whole fighting bit what am i doing wrong or is he just fighting the whole sleep thing
my baby boy is turning four months old he has been fighting his sleep so bad. It seems he has been doing this since day one, so i’ve started rocking him even for naps. I know i shouldn’t, i know i should be letting him soothe himself but i don’t know what else to do i try to lay him in the crib to let him fall asleep himself but he cries and cries his little face turns red and it turns into more like a scream what should i do?!
what is the perfect age to start having baby sleep by themselves. what, other words, is the easiest time to have a baby sleep on his own?
My 13 month old daughter won’t take a nap in her crib, and she never has. What can I do to make sure she takes regular naps and in her crib? She goes to sleep at night just fine, without any soothers, and sleeps thru the night but will not nap.
At what age can a baby put herself to sleep? My daughter is almost 6 weeks old and “needs” me to hold her until she falls asleep, then I put her down. Most of the time she will stay asleep but sometimes wakes a few minutes after she is put down. How do I break this habit or stop it from becoming a habit?
My son Sam just turned 1 year old. Every night is a guessing game on how he will go to sleep an for how long. Some nights I can put him in bed awake and he doesn’t make a peep and puts him self to sleep other nights he screams for an hour but will not put himself to sleep. Also some nights he will sleep through the night and some he wakes up at least once. I used the same routine everynight so why the inconsistency.
I have a 7 week old who is not in a regular sleep pattern. She wakes one night every 3 hours to nurse and then the next night after 5 hours. How do I help her get into a regular sleep pattern to sleep through the night. My older son was sleeping consistently 7 or more hours a night by the time he was 7 weeks.
My son Jayden is 8 months old and he doesn’t take long naps at all during the day unless he is being held. Also at night time he still wakes up once every night and eats his bottles then goes back to sleep for say maybe 4 hours usually waking up around 7:30. How do I teach him to soothe himself to sleep without the bottle, or anyone holding him and stay asleep?
Hi,
I have a 2.2 yr old who slept from 7 to 7 until last month. All of a sudden she refuses to go to sleep until 9ish, and wakes every morning at 5. We put her into a bed to see if it helps, but no luck. We now have a gate on her door, but she just stands there and screams for up to 45 minutes when we go to her (that was an arbitrary time limit I set for myself because I cannot take much more). I am so frustrated. Please help!
How do you get a three year old to stop coming in parents bedroom at night when they wake up. I take him back to his bedroom and stay in there until he falls asleep.