What's Your "Sleep Goal?"

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What does "a good night's sleep" look like for you?

Imagine for a moment that a genie has appeared, and promised to instantly solve your child's sleep problems... What would you wish for?

Share your answers in the "Comments" section below. On Wednesday, January 18th, I'll be randomly choosing 5 people who've left a comment to win a FREE copy of "The Sleep Sense Program!"

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  1. My sleep goal is to help my 9 month old to link her sleep cycles. She is really frustrated at not getting enough sleep in the day which in turn gives her bad nights. So its a vicious cycle , been so since day 1. Am a tired mommy who feels so badly for her little girl.
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  2. I would ask that I could put my baby down to sleep on her own and that she would go to sleep on her own with out the crying, rocking, trying to put her down and her waking up clinging to me and screaming resulting in starting from square one again. I would ask that she stays asleep for atleast 6 hours but 12 would be wonderful. I would also ask that she naps atleast twice in the day for 2 hours per nap and without the same fight I have at night. To put her to bed and relax knowing she's happy and going to sleep consistently would be amazing!
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  3. I wish that the start of sleeping was well ,because my child sleep very bad takes 2 hours to sleep.but time of sleeping 8 hours is enough for me
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  4. A good night sleep....hmmmm. It's been a little over 2 years since i've had one of those. I guess any night where I get 4 consecutive hours of sleep is good. My daughter (a little over 2 years) has never been a good sleeper. Instead of getting better, it's getting worse. It's an hour struggle to get her to bed (between 8 and 9 pm) and then she only sleeps in hour intervals. Usually by 4 or 5 am she falls into a better sleep for a few hours but I am a single mom and we have to get up for work/daycare at 6:30. She has never used a soother. Been off the bottle since she was 1 year. Even when i am so tired and give in and let her sleep with me, it does not stop the "waking up every hour" I have tried many many herbal remedies (but those are often just to calm them down initially, has nothing to do with getting a good night's sleep) and have even tried a chiropractor who says her body is not "in line". After several treatments, I still see no improvement. She is very cranky lately as her sleep patern has gotten worse and of course I am tired and cranky also. I have to go to work everyday. As I stated, I am a single mom and the only financial support my daughter has. I'm lucky my boss is understanding. Any suggestions?
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  5. Right now a "good night sleep" is me getting 2-3 hours inbetween my daughters wake ups. She goes down at 6:30pm, awake. Sleeps for about 4-6 hours and then wakes every 3 hours until she's up for the day. Usually 4:30a-5:30a. I'm dealing with post-partum and the lack of sleep is wrecking my relationship with my husband.
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  6. I have got into bad habits with my 9 month old. Controlled cried him at 6 months but started teething at 7 months so totally gave up and now he won't even go say or night sleep without me. Since finding out in pregnant again I'm in need of some help getting my 9 month old to sleep on his own without letting him control cry as that has scared me and can't do it again. Help !!
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  7. Ha! I literally laughed out loud when I read your comment and asked myself. I good nights rest for me is 2 consecutive hours of not sleeping on the floor next to our son in our room. My 9.5 month old refuses to sleep alone. He had bad acid reflux and slept in a map nanny next to our bed at night since he was a month old. Prior to that the only time he slept was on our chest, while we sat on the couch all night. And it's always been me he had wanted or slept on. He freaks out, literally has a melt down and will go for an hour with it until we can't take anymore. .... I desperately need sleep. I'm a type 1 diabetic of 25 years. This is messing up my health. I'm a stay at home mom and my husband says I can take naps during the day... It's not a big deal to me he thinks. But I can't during the day. Housework and other major responsibilities still fall on me. It all has to get done yet. Our pediatrician says he is in full separation anxiety phase now and good luck getting anything to work. .... Help
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  8. My 20 weeks old baby who is co-sleeping with me won't sleep at all and she really can stay up for at least 3 hrs if she doesn't get pushed in the pram over a bump or be fed on the side on my bed. Some of the time she is over over fed because she is up for hours but doesn't want to go in the pram and can't fall asleep in bed. My sleep goal is not to have to feed her 100 times a day and her to go to sleep in her cot/crib for once and resettle herself when she wakes up.
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  9. A good nights sleep would mean I don't have to get up at all to get Alex back to sleep before 7am. I haven't had a good nights sleep in 7 months and it shows! :) if I could close my eyes at 11 and open them again at 7 I would be in heaven!
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  10. well i have a 4 and 2 year old both still on the bottle both still in my bed. was just reading your email and was wondering how you may be able to help me its not just them i like sleeping with my girls because i can hear them breathing all night all.
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  11. My daughter is Sleeping alot better during the night now, at 1 stage she was waking up about 5 times a night for a bottle. I went a brought her a zippy cup and make her warm milo before beed. she hasnt been too good of a sleeper pretty much from the time she was born.. It has been a very hard 3 years with the amount of sleepless nights i have had. But if there was 1 thing i wished from that Geni Lamp it would be for my little girl to be able to go to bed all by herself and sleep right thru the night, with a little sleepin every now and then:>. Man i would love that!
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  12. My 4 month old sleeps in our bed and we are about to start the sleep program - should we keep her cot in our room (as it is currently set up there according to guidelines which say babies should be in your room until 6 months) or should we put her in her own room?
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  14. A good nights sleep for us would be to put our children (4 year old girl, 7.5 month old boy) to bed and have them both stay there asleep all night long and I get to sleep at least 7 hours. Mostly that is already happening for our 4 year old. My son will go to sleep on his own, in his own crib. I don't nurse him down, pat him, rock him or even stay with him while he falls asleep. However, he is usually waking up 3 or 4 times between 8pm and 7am (that is his usual block of sleep). He doesn't stay awake long, and sometimes I can pat him back to sleep but often I have to nurse him and he falls asleep at my breast and I put him to bed. The last several days he has been teething, but this is not a new behavior.
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  15. A good night's sleep for us would mean putting our 8 month old son to bed sleepy but awake and happy at 6:30 and having him sleep 12 hours straight, just like my daughter used to do! I understand we all wake up periodically through the night so another wish would be for him to soothe himself back to sleep or at least be content with a back rub, song or even a little rocking. I guess in short, I would love to stop being the pacifier for him ALL NIGHT LONG, sometimes non stop for hours at a time! I am exhausted and in need of some help! AND SLEEP!
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  16. My husband and I are just beginning sleep training with our son. What do we do if our baby has a long doctor's appointment and will end up napping in the car? Do you transfer the baby into the crib upon arrival or do you allow the baby to sleep in the car seat? Is it reccomended to allow a baby to have a nap on a car ride during the beginning stages of sleep training?
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  18. My goal is to get my 8.5 month old to sleep 12 hours straight without a feed. My biggest fear is that she's quite small (15 lbs) and I'm worried she isn't eating enough (she breastfeeds 6 times a day with 3 solid meals a day). Right now I put her down between 7:30 to 8 pm and I dream feed her at 10 and she wakes at 5 for her first feed (sometimes earlier) then goes back down til 7-8. My biggest issue is when to wean her off the dream feed and the 5 am feed.
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  19. I wish my 17 month old son would wake at predictable times -- preferably only once or twice a night, and go back to sleep easily after he wakes, within five to 15 minutes -- instead he wakes anywhere from 10 a.m. to 1 am, but takes an HOUR AND A HALF to get back to sleep -- that is the part I find agonizing, not the waking. He is waking up as I write!!!!.....
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  20. For my baby to be able to get himself to sleep without my help (rocking, nursing) - as well as not needing my help to go back to sleep. Wakes at least 2 times per night.
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  22. From the age of 5 weeks my son was sleeping 12 hours a night, going to sleep unaided. At approx 22 months old he woke up screaming, crying and literally shaking as though he had a nightmare and pretty much ever since it has got worse with him sleeping through the night. He settles down in his own bed, but will come into our bed every night. Some nights this will range from anything from 2 hours to 9 hours before he ventures into our bed. We have constantly tried putting him back into his own bed but within 10 minutes he will be back in again to the point we are sometimes so exhauseted that we will wake and find him in our bed not knowing when he came in. I have tried just about everything that people, "experts" and books have suggested yet nothing seems to work. If I try the controlled crying method he gets so loud that he wakes his 3 brothers and has even woken the neighbours.
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  23. I would love to see my little fella sleep right through the night instead of making a trip into my room every nite..he do go bed every nite at a good time but every night he ends up coming into my room during the night usually before 4am he dont come in from wanting anything he only comes in and sneaks into my bed to sleep...sometimes I dont even know he is there till i wake i morning ....
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  24. I would love to see my toddler go to bed peacefully without any battles and crying episodes,then sleep through the night with no trips to my room at 2:30 and 5:30 am. Will this ever be possible?
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  25. Hi, My older daughter is 3 years old. Since about October last year, after we came back from a family holidays she is less settled in her night sleep. We need to leave a light on in the hall and open door to her room. When it is about 3-4 am she gets up, comes to our bedroom as she says she wants a cuddle. We put her back in her bed but we again have to live the light on. My goal would be for my daughter Zuzanna to stop waking up only because the light was switched of when we went to bed and for her to have full night sleep, uninterrupted. Thanks, Aga
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  26. I wish my little guy would stop waking up at 4 am to play or nurse. I'm trying to ween him and it's hard to say no at 4am when I don't want to get up and get a bottle. I'd like him to sleep through the night and get at least 8 hours. He's 29 months now.
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  27. id like my litte girl of nine months to settle to sleep in her cot of a evening she still has reflux and is on gaviscon as u no they get rather uncomfy so leaving her to cry it out isnt for me but where we have layed on the sofa with her head on my chest so she all suggled up has left her needing me all the time and when shes asleep and i put her in cot she screams for me it would be nice if she sleept for alest 6-7 hrs so i could get some rest im not so bothered if she wakes and gets in bed during the night because i no as she gets older i can do rewards to engourge to stay in bed and id rather do it slow so she remains happy
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  28. I wish for my LO (14 months) to sleep by himself in his crib. He was a preemie and reflux early in life so slept mainly in a car seat, and then tried to move to crib but he will have none of that. He cries uncontrolably for long periods of time until I cave and go to get him. Then he sleeps on my chest on the couch until morning. When I try to place him in the crib after he is already asleep, he wakes as soon as I put him in the crib. At witts end!
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  29. I wish for my 2yr. old to fall asleep without the boob! And to sleep all night in his crib without waking! When I was exhausted and needed sleep I decided to take him into bed with me, and he's been there ever since! He will NOT take a pacifier! So, to keep the peace and not let him "cry it out" I have been putting him to sleep nursing pretty much his whole life. He now starts out in his crib and when he wakes(anywhere from an hour and a half to 3 hours), I take him into bed with me because I'm so tired from a long day. At this point I don't know what to do that won't be completely traumatic for all of us. I wish this could happen so much easier than I am imagining it will be.
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  32. Although my 10 month old baby sleeps between 11 to 12 hours through the night, I would like to be able to get him to nap for 1 hours straight during the the day/
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  33. I would like Natalia to sleep from 7 or 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. I know she can do it because she did for about a two week period in the past. After the holidays with the family visits and schedule disruptions, she is waking up every hour or two. An additional concern is that she is a twin, so if she wakes up we have to pay attention immediately or she'll wake up her brother. In addition, given that she is 6 months, we would like her to have two 11/2 naps a day at least. Those are our sleep goals
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  34. I wish I could put my little boy (three months shy of 3 years old) down at 7:30 or 8 pm & he would sleep completely through the night until 7 am. (Since he is in a big boy bed now, he gets up sometimes 4 or 5 times within an early morning hour, like between 2 & 3 am, then he gets up for good at 5am on these days) This morning he slept in till 4:30am & did not wake up in the middle of the night. Two nights in a row this week he slept all night long till 6am. I always think this is it, he's not gonna get up any more in the middle of the night, then siiiieeeek!
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  35. I would love for my daughter to go to sleep shortly after being put into the crib. She is 27 months old and she sings and plays for about an hour after being put into the crib (even when she is exhausted).
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  37. My ten month old eats solids during the day but at night she likes to fall asleep on my breast, she has some teeth and sometime bite really hard, I want her to start falling asleep on her own after bath and dinner. On many occasions I left her in her cot after she fell asleep drinking from the breast, she lasted ten minutes then woke up screaming, I go and pick her up and she burps and then pushes her way to my breast again, so I feed her again and the cycle carries on...until she finally is fast asleep. By this time I am exhausted from 7.30 to 9.30 and I haven't had dinner or spent time with my husband. She then wakes again at 1 am then again 4 or 5 and the same cycle goes on. I am so tired and feel I can't do this anymore, I really really need help! In the day she only sleeps if I push her in the pram and that can take between 15 mins to 30 mins just pushing until she sleeps...my back aches when pushing the pram and I just don't know what to do. I am so exhausted and tired everything feels like a blur...if I had the chance I would sleep a whole week without waking up! Please help
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  38. A good night sleep to me is a nice peaceful sleep for my 3 children all at the same time 10 or 9 hours uninterupted sleep. I have not had a good night sleep since my first child was born just over 4 yrs ago. I get up numerous times during the night but normally to my 2yr old that has only slept right thru a handful of times in his lifetime. He wakes more than my 6mth old does.
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  39. I would like lucas to sleep ten hours with a couple of naps he is 5 months old. I started to let him cry yesterday so we will see if he starts to get enough sleep. Currently he has only beenget 1-3 hours at a time at any given time day or night. I agree with amanda getting up only once would be a blessing
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  40. i have a nine month old daughter and have not had a whole nights sleep since she has been born(im so tired). im getting up 4-5 times a night with her, she just cant seem to get herself back to sleep. i dont care if i get the whole night sleep or not, but to just get up once would be wonderful.
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  41. I would love to put my 9 month old down at 8:30pm and have her sleep uninterrupted until 8:30am. That may be too fanciful, but I'm a tired mum with a busy lass that does not nap well.
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  42. My daughter is almost 4. In the house we lived before we bought that one we live in now, she was sleeping in her crib. She was only 1 1/2 when we moved here. Since we got here, I can count how many nights she has slept in her own bed. I keep her room clean, with the colors that she likes (pink/ purple), and everything girls at her age likes. She fall asleep on her bed, but every night at 3:30 am, she wakes up crying and comes to my bed. Daddy and I now both work, and has to get up early, so we just let her sleep the rest of the night with us. And she toss and turn so much that sometimes, we can't rest for the rest of the night.I wish she would just sleep in her bed all night long. Not necessarily 12 hours, but at from 9, 10 pm to 7 am, it would be wonderful!!!
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  43. A good night sleep would be my daughter going to sleep in her own crib by herself. I don't mind getting up at least once at night. Dare to dream I do.
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  44. A good nights sleep for my son is going to bed at 9pm and waking up between 7-8 am. And this is without waking up in the middle of the night! When he does this, he wakes up rested and happy and still wants to take a nap late morning and then again early evening. Any less sleep and he is cranky and screams through a nap. He follows this schedule maybe 2 nights a week and the next day is bliss for us all. However, I cant get him to do it every night. I can't get him to follow a routine!
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  46. A good night sleep for our little familly would be 10 hours consistantly. No waking up to feed as my little boy 6mo does not self sooth and going to sleep does not happen without breastfeeding... As a result normally by 4am our little boy is in our bed because I am just too sleepy to keep getting up after that. We are trying things to help him sleep, but im sure a coppy of your book by our bed side would make life a little easier.
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  47. To have my 1 year old sleep through the night without needing my boob to fall asleep. We share a room (due to space restrictions) and when she wakes up she looks straight at me and screams until I get her and breastfeed her. There has been too many nights when the last part of the night is spent on the couch with her because she can't settle down even after getting breastfed. I would love to be able to sleep through the night in my own bed!
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    • We share a room with our 9 month old as well. I just bought a tri-fold room divider and it made a great improvement. Now our daughter can't see if I'm awake and if I'm quiet enough in the early morning hours, she cries for a brief period and than turns back to sleep 20 more minutes or so. Sort of a "baby" snooze.
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  48. I want my 14 month old to sleep at least 8 hours. He sleeps about 5 to 6 hours before he wakes for his feeding. I would think by 14 months he should be able to go 8 hours without needing a feed. My older child was 11 months when he started sleeping right through the night.
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  49. My 3 year old will only fall asleep if we stay in his room. Even after the 20 minutes ( how long it takes him) we stay with him every night he is up at 3 am like clock work crawling into out bed to finish out his nights sleep. My husband refuses to use the crying out method so I am at a loss. I have tried the just walking him in laying him down and leaving every time he gets up, however, the three times, three days in a row, I tried that method it took us 3'hours before he finally gave up and fell to sleep( this was each night ). We were all three exhausted. My goal is that we all three get a restful night sleep and that my son learns that he can fall asleep on his own. SOS SOS. SOS
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  50. To have my daughter sleep throught the night!! She is 10 months old and still wakes up atleast 3 times if not more. She is a breastfed baby and when she wakes up she is use to "eating" back to sleep. Right when she gets the boob in her mouth she is out, but then wakes up again when she can't put herself back to sleep. I would love for her to atleast sleep a 6 hour stretch and grow from there! I am one tired mama! :)
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  52. I would love my twins to go to sleep independently and to sleep soundly for about ten hours, re settling themselves if they wake
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  53. - go to sleep in her cot while I sing for her - sleep from 7-8PM till 6-7AM with one or maximum two wakeup. I don't mind to soothe her to sleep again once every ight. -
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  54. I would like to be able to put my baby into his crib and have him be able to fall asleep on his own without help from me to do so. I would like him to sleep alone in his crib for a solid 7-8 hrs, and if he wakes, be able to soothe himself back to sleep. I don't think that's too much to ask! :)
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  56. Most people who have children say they got the least amount of sleep during the first year when they still had an infant. My daughter is 23 months old and I would do anything to have her sleeping like she did that first year! She would sleep at least 5-6 hours straight before waking and if she did wake she was usually back to sleep after a bottle or a little bit of rocking her. Now that she is a toddler things have completely changed. It's so difficult to get her to even fall asleep. We've tried putting her in her crib and letting her cry but checking on her every few minutes but it just doesn't work. She screams and cries like someone is murdering her. Most of the time she gets so upset she ends up vomiting! I just can't handle that so I've given in and now I'll hold her and rock her and lay with her until she falls asleep before placing her in her crib. But this has become a long process sometimes taking up to two hours or more a night. And by the time she does fall asleep it's usually pretty late between 10pm or sometimes even midnight! Once in her crib I'm lucky if she sleeps 3-4 hours before she's up again and then it takes another hour to get her back to sleep. It's gotten even worse the last few weeks though because now she's sleeping in the bed with her dad and me because honestly... it's just easier. But I know this can't keep going on. So my "Sleep Goal" is to get my daughter on some type of schedule where she can fall asleep on her own, in her own bed, and at a reasonable time. And also for her to sleep at least 5 hours before waking again. Fingers crossed!
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  57. IDEALLY I FEEL THAT 10-12 HRS IS ENOUGH, (EACH CHILD IS DIFFERENT), HOWEVER IF I COULD COME UP WITH A BETTER, QUICKER ROUTINE TO PUT HIM DOWN AT NIGHT, THAT WOULD BE IDEAL THANK YOU
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  58. Since my husband and I split up when my daughter was just 9 months old her sleeping has been ad hoc. Some nights she would sleep through in her cot other nights only cuddles with mummy would settle her . Now for the past 3 months ( she's 24 months now ) she has had to share my room as I have had family staying with me. She mastered climbing out of her cot and subsequently will only sleep in my bed . I work full time and to be honest am too exhausted to argue. My own fault I hear u say! I know it is . All I want is for when she gets back in her own room next week is to be able to put her to bed and know she is secure and feels safe enough to sleep with out me . She has a good night time routine and I'm going to take some time off work ao I can help her settle again . But just to have her settled is my wish x
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  59. Please help. I have ordered another sleep solution and it has not fully worked. My awesome 20 month old will not go to sleep without being held or rocked and after he falls asleep when I go to put him down he wakes up. I start the plan and then he either gets sick or he is starting to not want to take a nap during the day etc... neither one of us are getting the sleep we need. Please help!!!!!!
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  60. My 3 yo son had a great sleep time routine ie from 8pm we went to his room, he chose his book and i read it on the rocking chair then I turned the light off to sing 2 French lullabies and put him in his cot and wished him good night. I could go out of his room without him to call me once I had a step out of his room. He usually slept till 6.30-7am. 4 months ago his dad moved overseas, before joining him my son and i stayed 3 months by ourselves in our home country. From the second night his dad was gone my son wanted me to stay next to him and asked me to hold his hand. If he woke up in the middle of the night and realized I was not next to him he screamed and called for me. Since a month we have been reunited with his dad, my son still wants me to stay next to him for falling asleep. He woke up 3 times a night on a average and asked for me. We tried once to let him fall asleep by himself but it ended up screaming and sleep terrors. As a result, my dream night wish would be to put him back in his normal routine ie read him a story, wish him goodnite and see him again only after 8-9 hours sleep.
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  61. We have 2 children, ages 2 and 8 months. My goal for the 2 year old would be for him to sleep from about 7:30 or 8:00 until 7:00. For the eight month old, she still normally wakes up for a bottle, even though we're trying to wean her off of it. For her, 7:00 to 7:00, with a half hour in the middle for her mid-night bottle. Within the next few months, my goal for her would be the same as the 2 year old.
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  63. Hi there my ultimate goal was to have my little girl sleep from 7pm to 7am. With the help from your book I have a little girl who does exactly that!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH DANA. An amazing book with lots of tips and pointers in it. Iim so glad I found out about the book when I was pregnant. Thanks again Alana
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  64. Hi, my baby is 6 months old. He slept for five hour stretch until 3 months; however, after 4 months he was sleeping for only 3 to 4 hour stretch. He was not even sleeping in the crib, so I have to sleep him with me, but even then he woke up after 2 or 3 hours. I also use cry it out method, which I would say was successful to some extent, I mean he was at least sleeping in his crib. After five months, I have started my baby solids and a major change has come in his sleep. Now he took 6 or 7 hour stretch of sleep and woke only one time at night. He sleeps almost 10 to 11 hours at night and taking good naps in day as well which was my moderate goal for his sleep. Although, I still want to increase his sleep stretch 8 to 9 hours. In short, my objective to tell that many people and books recommend to not start solids until 6 months. But I think if a child is healthy and waking more frequently at night then starting solids is a good solution.
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  65. I have a 3 year old that sleeps with me and has since birth. I have to be in the bed with him for naps and bedtime and rub his back. If I get him to sleep at night and then get up to get some house work done, he will only stay asleep for about an hour without me by his side. If I try to get up early in the morning, he will be up within 3o minutes. I would love for him to get into his own bed and fall asleep on his own. I haven't had a good night's sleep in over 3 years now because he sleeps snuggled up against me and we end up on the edge of the bed. I am sure he would sleep better as well if he could sleep without me. A good 10 hour night would be nice for him to have.
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  67. A good night's sleep begins with our newborn going down without a fuzz, without crying. She only sleeps 9 hours a day now...no matter what we try. So having her begin her sleep early means I can go to sleep around 1030-11 and no be focused on trying to get a 2 month old to sleep. We have her in a bassinet in our room and she is loud when sleeping so a perfect night's sleep would have her in her bassinet in her own room. I wouldn't say a perfect night sleep involves any set number of hours but I'd love to have it be how it was pre baby. If I wanted 6 hours uninterrupted I got it. If I wanted 8, I got it. I'd really just like to wake up and feel rested and ready for the day rather than dreading getting out of bed.
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  68. Originally once my daughter was born, a good nights sleep was for myself and my husband to sleep longer than 3-4 hours. Now my daughter is 20 months old and she has been sleeping through the night since she was 4 months. I always will want my goal to be for her to get the proper amount of sleep SHE needs. I have learned to function on just a few hours but as long as she is happy and healthy that is all I care about. Now that we all sleep peacefully through the night it's nice for us all to get the proper amount of sleep. We still have the occasional nights where she will wake up but it's very rare. She not only sleeps well at night but she takes great naps!
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  70. My 7 month old daughter has been sleeping well through the night (in her own crib). She will generally sleep 11 - 12 hours straight. Naps, on the other hand, are not her thing! She will go down for a nap without a fight, but will wake 30 - 40 minutes later and will NOT be put back down. She wakes from her afternoon nap around 2:30pm, and is a complete grump by the time dinner time rolls around. I would love for her to take two decent naps during the day, so that her last couple hours of awake time are somewhat pleasant!
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  71. My ultimate goal would be that the first thing that my 3 year old daughter hears from her parents in the morning is positive praise rather than negativity from over-tired and frustrated parents who have tried everything over 3 years to have unbroken sleep.
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  72. For my son to sleep beyond 4am! He wakes at 4 seemingly no matter what time we put him down, and no matter how much sleep he's had in the day. He used to do a fixed 9 hours, but now there's something special about 4am. He's then whiney & unhappy all day as he's tired but refuses to go back to sleep (will scream if you even take him near his cot. You have to go for a drive, which usually starts with screaming too, just to get a nap out of him)! I have slept in his room & there are no external factors waking him. I just can't figure it out!? I'm 7 months pregnant, so for him to be able to start sleeping atleast 10/11/12 hours a night before the next one comes would be ideal!!
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  73. my sleep goal is 10 hr unbroken sleep for one week ,,, sooo she can rest and me tooo,,,cristina have 5 years and she wake up a lot like 2 - 3 times at night soooo is difficult to me to go back to sleep ,,,, im really tier
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  74. My sleep goal for my almost 4 year old would be 12 hours each night. My sleep goal for my newborn would be 5-6 hour stretches (formula fed).
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  75. Jordyn is 3 and 1/2 months old. She is currently getting anywhere between 8 to 11 hours of sleep a night. She goes to bed around 9 pm and will wake up anywhere inbetween 6 or 9 am. I believe that she is getting a "good sleep" however, I would like to her to be able to fall asleep on her own. Currently we have been holding and rocking her to sleep and then transporting her to her crib. (Luckily, we haven't had any issues with this) but I am affarid that as she get's older it could become an issues.
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  76. I would wish for my 17 month old to sleep in her own bed without waking up in the middle of the night to come to my bed. I have had a really hard time weaning her from the breast, and an even harder time weaning her from my bed. My son is almost three so, really, I have not had a full night sleep in almost three years!!!! I am exhausted and frustrated.
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  77. Well Dona my son is 21 months he goes to sleep around 9 or 8 pm. We leave in a small apartment so our rooms are mashed together. My son goes to sleep, but when we get up early in the morning, he always appears on our bed. He usually wakes up crying around 5am but latly he just wakes up next to my husband and I. Most of the time next to my husband because he is the nearest to his bed but (sometimes even in the middle). So my sleep goal/wish would be for my 21 month old baby to sleep all night with out waking up. From 8 or 9 to 8am and when he gets up to stay in his bed. Well maybe I should of mention that we change his bed from a crib to a toddlers bed. Thanks Dana, you have a wonderful day!
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  78. I would love for Matthew to sleep a whole night right through instead of waking up between 2.30am-4.30am to get into our bed, as this also wakens me & his dad & i cant get back to sleep, Matthew still shares our room as his older sister is in the other room, i am constantly tired as i work full time also.
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  79. My sleep goal would be for my 6 year old to sleep throughout the night (11-12 hours)! He wakes up several times throughout the night, and then is up for good around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. This is with a bedtime of about 7:30 pm.
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  80. My sleep goal for my 20 month old son is for him to stay asleep/put himself back to sleep after he falls asleep for the night. 8 PM - 7 Am is VERY acceptable. Without a middle of the night feed. My 6 year old daughter also wakes up pretty often, so between these two, I havent had very rare and few nights of unbroken sleep.
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  81. My goal is for Alexander to sleep through from 10pm to 7am without disturbing me (Grandma who shares his room two nights a week) or his Mum and Dad who both work full-time and more in their roles in the military. They also have two other children (6y) and (3y) so their schedule is packed.
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  83. I have a almost 3 year old and 5 year old and find at least a few nights a week to be interrupted by one or both of them. My goal would be to have uninterrupted sleep on most nights. This working mom of two is tired :0)
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  86. To have a night of unbroken sleep. May daughter is nearly 3 and wake 2 or 3 times a night but is so tired and goes straight back off. I don't think she even knows why she wakes and is so tired.
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  87. goodnight sleep would love for my toddler of 2years and preschooler of 6 years to go to bed at 8pm, satieted, happy and without fuss and up at 8 & 6.30am consecutively happy and contented without night wakings, night coughing, nightmare wakening and bed sharing bouts.
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  88. We would love our 6 mth old to sleep 8 - 9 hours at night straight through. 10 til 6 would be great. We put him down at 7 at the moment. He wakes at 10, 2 and 6.
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  90. Goal is that baby sleeps for atleast 4 hr stretches and wakes up to feed twice only. Right now he wakes up every 1 hr or so and needs to be put back to sleep. He feeds twice or thrice at night. He is 6.5 mo old.
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  91. My wish would be for adam to sleep through, we just need a bit of peace and quite as we have a 7months old baby girl that is sleeping much better than Adam who is just under 3. Plus he wakes up really early sometimes, which makes it even worse.
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  92. My sleep goal would be for our baby to be able to go to sleep without fighting us every inch of the way. Once asleep, she stays that way til morning, it's just getting her there that's the trouble!
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  93. My sleep goal would be for our baby to be able to go to sleep without fighting us every inch of the way. Once asleep, she stays that way til morning, it's just getting her there that's the trouble!
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  94. My wish would be for my son to fall asleep at a decent hour, 9 or 10, with out a fight. It doesn't matter what I try he is constantly staying up until some nights 12 or even 1.
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  96. My wish would be to get my son to sleep in his own room with the security of not having mommy or daddy around for hours before falling asleep.
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  97. Hi Dana, My ultimate sleep goal is my 9 month old son Liam and I both getting all the sleep we need. Him sleeping through for his 12 hours unless he's sick and even then me only giving cuddles and reassurance rather than feeding. Me getting to sleep most nights uninterrupted. And if course my gorgeous boy being happy to drift off to sleep all by himself :o)
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  98. Hi Dana, my goal would be for me not have to rock my 1 year old little girl to sleep and for her to have atleast 8 hours solid sleep without waking in the night and having some bottle.
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  99. Hi Dana My sleep goal is to get my 7 week old daughter so sleep longer than 2 hours at a time so that when she is rested properly she enjoys being awake, instead of lots of crying. eventually to get her to sleep through the night so she enjoys her challenges ahead of her the next day. A rested babby is a happy one
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  100. Hi Dana, My sleep goal is for my 3 year old son to sleep at least 10-11 continuous hours during the night. 12 hours would be absolutely amazing! He often wakes up early (4:30 am) and sometimes in the middle of the night due to night terrors. I have him stay in bed for 2 hours in the morning, but he doesn't go back to sleep. I'd also love for him to put himself to sleep instead of me having to lie down with him until he falls asleep. He used to sleep quickly, but now it's dragging on for 45 min. or more. It's been a long three years and it is so exhausting. If he can learn to sleep well, we can all get our much needed and dreamed of rest. We dream of a good night's sleep every night, but can't seem to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  101. For my Oliver to sleep through every night and not have night terrors I hate seeing him distressed and scared like he does! I don't mind the odd sleepless night but if he could have a good nights sleep he would behave a bit better instead of being crabby and tired come tea time! I'm sure his behaviour is affected by sleepless nights! It's like a time bomb when he goes to bed cause after an hour he wakes screaming and confused I would give anything for him to sleep through every night, I've been told it could continue til he is seven and the thought of that is awful!!!
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  102. The sleep goal I have set for my 7 month old, and would give my left pinky for would be first of all for him to fall asleep without the need of me rocking him, holding him for half an hour+, then breastfeeding him laying down in MY bed until he stays asleep. Then having him stay asleep for more than 2 hours until he needs me to feed him again until he falls back asleep, and waking up 2 to 3 times between 2am and 6 am. At least he sleeps from then until 8am, right? Wrong. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in over 7 months. And I love my son more than anything, and love sleeping with him cuddled to me, but I am ready to be able to toss around without worrying about waking him up. Please help me get him into his own bed, sound asleep for his sake and mine. He is always so tired during the day because he doesn't get good sleep at night.
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  104. I I I. I would love to have my 9 month old sleep for 12 hours straight. He goes to sleep at 730pm but wakes most nights once for a bottle. Our 25 month old has always been a good sleeper & will sleep for 12 hours then play in his crib for an hour in the morning before waking us to go get him. I am currently 5 months pregnant & would love to sleep throught the night before this new baby comes.
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  107. I hope to get my 19 month old son to sleep from 7.30 til 7.00am again. This all stopped once he discovered he could climb out of his cot. We changed his cot into a bed to avoid injury and now he sleeps from utter exhaustion from about 2am til 6.30am!
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  109. My dream would be that my 10 month old would not wake up for a feed/resettle after I put him down for his night time sleep until the morning.
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  110. Hey my name is Tierra and I a 6 week old baby girl named Kha'Nauri. My wish for sleeping is to get baby fed and asleep by a certain time every night and for to sleep throughout the night. Now I try to have her in bed by 8:00pm but she still wakes atleast twice a night. Sometimes when she wakes it's like it's her play time in she stays woke for atleast an hour. My goal throughout the night is to keep her sleep for atleast 6 hours.
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  111. At this point I would be thrilled if Caleb (5months) would sleep 6-7 hours like he used to. If he were to actually sleep through the night (10-12 hrs) well I definitely would not complain. Right now he wakes every 1-2 hours. I don't nurse him everytime he wakes, but it can sometimes take up 1/2 hour to get him back to sleep. If I try to put him to bed awake he will fuss and cry for hours if I were to let him. Instead, after an hour I finally give in and pick him up, at which point he falls asleep almost instantly in my arms. Naps are almost non-existant. He will usually go down for a one hour nap about an hour and half after getting up in the morning, but after that, forget it. I'm in desperate need of help, before I go crazy from lack of sleep!
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  112. My wish would be that my 2 and half year old would sleep until 7 am instead of 4:30 am! I am up with my 2 month old throughout the night and not ready to start my day at 4:30 with an overly tired 2 and half year old. Genie...PLEASE HELP!
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  113. My sleep goal is to have my 7.5 month old sleep through the night with one nursing session. Maybe 7pm to 3am, nurse and sleep til 6:30 or 7. Right now she is waking 3-7 times nightly for 10-30 minutes each, and though I often do not have to go to her and usually only nursing around 3am, i am awake and exhausted!!
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  114. I would like Mayela to sleep through the night at least 10 hours. Now she goes to sleep fine at about 7:30pm but wakes at 1am for a feeding( which I do not think she really needs) goes right back to sleep until about 5:30 - 6:00am. She is the awake for about 1 1/2 hours and goes back to sleep for about 1-2 hours. Mayela is 10 1/2 months old now and I am so tired I do not know which way is up. So Genie please, pleae, please help me out.
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  115. I haven't delivered yet, but talking to my sister, my ultimate goal would be to have my daughter sleeping 10-12 hours as soon as possible. Especially given I have epilepsy brought on by fatigue!
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  116. i want my child of 2year old to start sleeping alone in her own bed.At least 10 hrs sleep everynight.A good night sleep means my child sleeping after a goodnight storytime and waking up in the morning without any disturb.
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  117. My ultimate sleep goal for my baby would be 11-12 hours but I don't mind if theres one night waking on occasion up until she's 1 year, as long as my girl is waking up happy & well rested in the morning, rather than waking still tired grumpy & clingy like she sometimes can do.
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  118. My ultimate goal for my baby boy would be to have him sleep all night through for at least 10 - 12 hours. At present he is up every two hours from 8.30 pm - 4.30 am and then hourly from 4.30 am until 7.30 am. If I can get him to at least 10 hours straight, that would be heaven.
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  119. Our sleep goal would be for our 4 and 3 year old to sleep 10 hours per night. Currently they each sleep 8 hours per night (and yes....we are very grateful!) and nap for 1 1/2 hours at 1:30pm every day.
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  120. I would wish for my child to be able to go to sleep on his own and sleep atleast six hours straight so that my husband and I can spend more time together and function at work better.
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  121. Hi Dana, My son is 6 months old and my sleep wish would be for him to stop falling a sleep while breastfeeding and sleep 10-12 hours at night. He is awake every 3-4 hours at the moment....
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  123. I would love for my 2 year old daughter to be able to lie in her own bed and have the ability to put her self to sleep and then sleep for about 8 -10 hours straight without waking in the middle of the night. I wish bedtime was more enjoyable for all involved and we could all sleep through the night.
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  124. My sleep goal is to ensure that my 4 month, Maximus Daniel Bower, has sufficient rest to be the child that I know he is. Happy, funny, intelligent and determined. With little sleep due to night waking and short cat naps in the day, little Maxi screams, cries and is desperate for me to help him rest. It's not fair on him that I have failed to teach him to sleep properly, so all I want is for little Maxi to be able to be fully rested and developing happily.
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  126. My daughter is now 11 months old and goes to sleep on her own and sleeps really well at night but very inconsistently naps. We put her down twice a day (after a 3 and a half to 4 hour stretch) and she usually falls asleep right away but often wakes up after only 35 minutes! Other times she sleeps for an hour. My sleep goal would be to have her sleep better at nap time, not just these little cat naps. Thanks :)
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  127. For my 2.5 year old to self soothe and for her to sleep 9-10 hours a night in her own bed instead of climbing into ours at 2am
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  128. I would love my 3month old to sleep from 8pm till at least 6am everyday.. That is so not happening, he wakes at 4am. :(
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  129. I have 4 children. 9,4,2 and 6 mth old. I am looking to get help to have my 6 mth old sleep her night or at least 4-5 hours in a row. She is up every 2 hours and sometimes is waking the others. I'm trying everything with her. Nothing seems to be working!!!
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  130. My sleep goal for my 7 month old would be to get him to sleep for a 6-8 hour period instead of waking every hour or two.
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  132. I would like to see my 2 yr old be able to self soothe herself to sleep at bedtime and when she wakes us throughout the early hous of the morning, 2, 3, 4 am. It woud be great if she could get a solid 10 to 12 hours of sleep.....then the rest of us could as well.
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  133. My sleep goal is 9 hours uninterrupted! I want my 4 children, ages 3-11 to go to sleep without protest. I would like to wake up at 7:30 am feeling refreshed and ready to start the day!
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  134. Hi there Dana. We have 2 daughters; Elizabeth who is 21 months, and Jessie who is 8 months. Jessie is usually up at 7 - 7:30 am, napping at 10:30-11am - 12:30-1pm, and sometimes at about 3:30 - 4:30-5 pm, then to bed at 7:30-8pm. Jessie is still sometimes awaking at night, for a midnight snack I'd say 2-3 times a week. Elizabeth wakes up at about 8:30-9 am, naps at 1:30-2pm to 3:30-4pm, & then is asleep by 8:30-9 pm. We have a small home so the girls will be sharing a bedroom. Our Jessie is still in our room - in her own bed. I'm not sure how to go about adapting them to sharing a room? Who's sleep pattern do I adjust? Or?
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  135. My sleep goal for my kids would be that once they have gone to bed (7.30 -8pm following a bedtime routine and without fussing too much) that they sleep through the night until a reasonable hour no earlier than 6.30am. They should feel safe and secure going to bed and night time wakeups should be few and far between for reasonable reasons like teething or nightmares and not simply 'missing me'. That would be brilliant!
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  136. At this point with my 3.5 month old I would take ANY of the below... -Sleeping for more than 3 hour stretches at night -Taking naps that last for more than 15-30 minutes -Not fighting sleep at nap-times or bedtime (even after consistent bedtime routine) -Some sort of schedule (although we wake up consistently at 9am everyday, that is the only consistent part of the schedule) ...I am one tired mom...
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  137. My wish would be for Amy (1) to be settled throughout the night without a bottle of milk needed till morning, to give me and her the rest we both need :)
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  139. I've got a 15 month old who has struggled with ear infections and just recently got tubes. When he gets a cold it also settles heavily in his chest and so he needs to do breathing treatments and take an oral steroid. I'm hoping now that he has the tubes, the ear infections will stop along with the breathing difficulties that accompany his colds. He was a great sleeper in the beginning. But for the last 3 months it's just come undone. With all that is going on I don't feel comfortable letting him cry it out. He is now waking up several times a night. Sometimes I can get him back to sleep with some milk. Other times he's up for 2 to 3+ hours at a time. Most of the time all I want is sleep. So I've even tried letting him sleep in my arms, which thankfully he doesn't really like. The other big issue is that he ischemic currently in our (his parents) room, as there isn't enough room in either siblings room. So, when he does wake up, there I (mom) am laying right there next to him. I love him more than words can say and as he is my third child I vowed not to make the same mistakes with him that I did my first two. It was working at first and then he has just been chronicly sick. So, now we've got all these horrible habits that I have no idea how to break. My goal is to sleep again.
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  140. I have 2 kids (aged 2 and 4) and my dream sleep goal would be for them to get 10-11 hrs a night of sleep. Reality is 9 usually. :)
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  141. My goal would be for me not needing to read stories and then lie down in bed with 2 girls until they fall asleep (ages 6 and 3). And, to have 3-year old not walk to my bedroom anywhere between 2-6 am and wake me up in the process. Both girls seem attached to me b/c we co-slept for almost 1-1/2 years with each. I need to get a regular sleep schedule for ALL of us, esp. Momma Bear.
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  145. For my 2 and half years old girl, I hope she feel comfortable with her bed, so she doesn't need to get up in mid-night and climb up parent bed
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  146. My goal is for my 18 month old to sleep through the night without waking. (even 8 hours would be great) Right now she has set routine (and has her whole life) but now she is waking 3 times a night. I tried changing her diet, sleep time, naps, but she still is waking. I am not a cry until you pass out type of mom, and so I get up read books, sing socks, rock and sometimes when I am desperate nurse her back to sleep. (she only nurses one time a day at night right before bed) I am sure there are things I could do to support her and allow her to be better rested but at this point I dont know what they are! I have had this problem her entire life, but she goes through stages, now its more than when she was a new born! Eikes.
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  147. I wish that my lil bubba Charles could sleep just 4 hours strait without waking up and be able to go back to sleep without me having to feed, cuddle or rock him. I know that he would be such a happier bubba if he could sleep a little longer he sleeps no more then an hour and half for the entire day and then walked 5-6 times a night. I can see how tired he is all the time but he just keeps fighting it.
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  148. I would wish that bedtime went smoothly every single night, that getting my 3yo and 18 month old to bed every night didnt take a war over about 2 hours, the both of them battling to the bitter end!
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  149. Our ideal goal for sleeping at our house would be to have our 3 and a half year old sleep 12 hours, going to bed with out coming out of bed a dozen times before he goes to sleep and not waking up until 7am (not 5am!) them he might stop all the crazy tantrums (coming from lack of sleep!!!)
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  150. I would love to know how to get my baby to sleep without nursing or rocking her and then to sleep 12 hours. She's recently started sleeping 6-9 hours depending on the night. I'd like to be able to put her down around 7 and have some time to accomplish something or have some time with my husband and then be able to get a good night's rest and then started on my day the following morning before she wakes up.
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  151. My wish....for the opportunity to put my 6 year old to bed for the first time in 4 months instead of spending an hour feeding and rocking my 4 month old. To sleep more than 2 hours at a time throughout the night. To rest in the knowledge that I have taught my baby the life skill of learning to fall asleep on his own. To have a glimpse of hope that this will all get better and the confidence to know HOW to help my child get to sleep, stay asleep, and not have to rely on me as a sleep crutch. My wish is for help, knowledge, confidence, and a light at the end of the tunnel.
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  152. I would like my DS (20mths) to sleep through the night and settling off to sleep in own bed without tears and would like DD (8mths) to sleep well through night let's say 6-7 hrs. That would currently be my idea of bliss..
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  153. My goal would be for my nine month old boy to sleep twelve hours without waking. At the moment he is being breast feed to sleep or crying himself to sleep we have deffenantly got a huge improvement from what we were getting him waking up every two hours.
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  154. 11-12 hours would be great but , my one year old currently does 10-11, but waking after 7 would be ideal. 6 just seems too early.
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  155. Morgan is 14 months old An ideal nights sleep would be Morgan to sleep between 6 & 7pm and sleeping around 12 hours in his cot. It's ok everyone focusing on babies going to sleep by them selves then sleeping through the night. But when other problems need to be addressed too. Morgan is suffering with painful trapped wind ( gas ) in the day this is no problem. At night until all the wind is cleared he cannot get to sleep and it will make him wake up around 4am when he will cry out in pain. I massage his stomach for 5minutes about 10 minutes later he will pass wind and hopefully fall back to sleep
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  156. Our sleep goal is for our 11-month old to sleep for 6-8 hours before waking shortly for a feeding. He's a peckish eater during the day, so we don't always get enough calories into him during the day, so he does get hungry at night.
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  157. My son is around 9months now, and wakes up every 2-3 hrs gap.. every time have to do patting to put him on sleep.. I give him last feed at 10.30pm and another feed at midnite at around 2.30am.... he hardly sleeps on his own, every time we have to put him to the sleep.. I would love if he sleeps full nite on his own without any feed/help.. I wish and prey for a sound sleep for my littleone and myself...
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  158. My ideal goal for my 5 year old would to have him fall asleep on his own around 8pm every night without calling me every 15 min with a new excuse. After spending the whole day cooking, cleaning and caring for the family, I'm ready to sit down and read a book or watch a movie, but for me, that's where the problems begin.
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  159. I'd love it if my LO would sleep 6 hour uninterupted stretches, I don't mind doing a night time feed (actually enjoy the quiet time for closeness) but would really 6 hours of quiet sleep between the feeds, and 7 hours would just be heavenly!
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  161. My wish would be for my son to skip one of his two feedings at night time, he is currently waking twice and once would be perfect. He goes to bed on his own also goes back to sleep after both feedings, I just feel one feedings is plenty.
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  162. I have a 3 1/2 month old daughter and i am nursing. I would love to have 5 hours. I can't seem to get her to sleep past 3.5 hrs at a time and thats a good evening! She sleeps sometimes with her paci and sometimes she doesn't want it and settles just fine. I cannot figure her out.
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  163. Up until two months ago Evie slept for 12 hrs without waking. Now she wakes and wont settle again in her cot. I would love my sleep genie to grant Evie peaceful, rested nights where she is content in her own cot in her room. I don't want her to be afraid of bedtime, her cot or sleeping by herself. I knew I was lucky when she slept 12 hrs but I feel I'll never reach that goal again for a long time! I think the sandman's gone on strike!!!
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  164. I'd love for our 2yo to go off to sleep happily without us sitting with him and then sleep until 6:30 (or longer if he wanted!)
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  166. I would love for my 3 weeks from 3 years old daughter to go to bed with no more than 2 before sleep visits and sleet through the night in her own bed until 7 or after. We put her to bed 8ish nightly, expect for special occasions and visitors which is not usual. She normally wakes up after several hours and comes to our bed. I'm 6 1/2 mo pregnant and we're moving out of state in a few weeks, so am just dealing until things settle down. But this is our routine for now.
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  167. my goal is for my son which is 18 months old to fall asleep by himself in his own bed around 8 o'clock every night. currently he goes to bed around 10 and sleeps with my husband and I. every once in awhile we get him to sleep on the couch then move him into his own bed, which he will sleep there all night but this happens once a month maybe.
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  168. At this point, I would be happy if my daughter would sleep for 5 hours without waking. She is 5 months old and wakes up all night long. The longest she will sleep is 45 minutes to 1 hour. I have 2 older boys and they were both very good sleepers, so this is a new problem for me. I am not comfortable letting her just "cry it out" in the middle of the night. Sometimes she goes right back to sleep if I put the pacifier in her mouth, but other times I have to feed and rock her.
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    • I can feel what you are going through my boy was Like that up to the age of 9 months which he is now we have just turned a corner where he is waking once or twice a night and is not screaming like he was. I put it down to putting him down to bed awake as I use to beast fees him to sleep. If is so hard I know but it does get better keep you're head up good luck.
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  170. As my son has only slept through 5 nights in 11 months i would be happy with any sleep. However i believe a good sleep is 12hrs continually. I think he is better in the day when he has had a good sleep at night. My son at present is 11months in a week and goes to bed at 7pm and will sleep till about 7am however will wake up sometimes 10+ times a night. He will then cuddle into my shoulder and after 10 minutes i can put him down. He has had a terrible time with teething but has never slept good for me. spending the first 7weeks only sleeping on me until i gave up breastfeeding!!!
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  171. My ideal is putting both my kids to bed at 7 (ish) and have them fall asleep and sleep through til morning, again 7ish. They both currently do this (2.5 year old and 4 month old) but I do expect some night wakings occasionally due to bad dreams or teething etc. As long as these are exceptions and not the norm, i'm happy. We have had to work at a routine and stick to it to achieve this as I believe good sleeping is a skill kids need to be taught like anything else.
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  172. My ultimate goal would be for my 2 year old daughter to fall asleep in her own room, in her own bed, and on her own. She currently sleeps in my room, in my bed, and with me. But she sleeps all night for at least 10 hours.
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  173. I would like for my son to fall asleep on his own, without rocking, in his own bed and sleep for at least eight hours at a stretch without having to be helped back to sleep by me. Right now he is sleeping in my bed with me and is waking up every two and half three hours crying. I have to get up and rock him back to sleep then put him back down crossing my fingers that he will stay. He is 17 months old, by the way, and has never slept through the night. He has never slept for more than six hours at a time and that was while being medicated after surgery! HELP!
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  174. My goal for my babygirl is for her to be able to go to sleep on her own, earlier, and I or her father to lay her down and she would be fine with that. it would be nice if any of our family members could put her down but i think its important for her parents to be able to do that first hehehe. The sleeping earlier would be nice around 9pm - 8am not 1am-2am - 1030am. And the reason i say both of us to be able to put her down is because her father isnt able to put her down and he gets upset about that and gives up easily. Oh and she falls asleep while feeding on me and stays on there for around two hrs and i cant really get her off because she starts looking for my breast again plz help us. we want our babygirl to have great sleep and not get any anxiety or tramatization. (i think thats how its spelled lol).
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  175. My wish would be that my 2 1/2 year old would sleep in his own bed all night w/o coming into mine or crying until we come in to his room and that my 8 month old continues to be a pretty good sleeper most nights.
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  176. My sleep goal would be to have both of my boys (2yr 10mon and 8 mon) be able to fall asleep on their own and stay asleep though out the night. I would love to have 10-12 hours of sleep for both of them, but realistically at least my 2 year old, my 8 month old I would love 6+ hours. Currently I am up every 2 hours with one or the other because they wake up and cannot put themselves back to sleep, and we have to lay with our 2 yr old until he falls asleep and cuddle our 8 month old to sleep then put him in his crib.
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  177. Ideal sleap for my son would be 6 or 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep in his crib, where he falls asleep with little intervention from his parents.
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  178. Because I have foster children, I tend to deal with a variety of ages, stages, and behaviors. So how to get them to go down without fuss, even with a routine and stay down for close to 12 hours. How do you know they are really not in distress when they cry for you so you don't have to go running. At what age do they start gaining their own sleep mechanisms? My goal is to know it all ... :)
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  179. My goal is for my infant to fall asleep on his own, and stay asleep for atleast 5 hours, if he happens to sleep for more I would be ecstatic but I would be satisfied with 5 straight solid hours- regardless of if he is sleeping in his crib or our bed (although the crib would be nice).
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  181. My childs sleep wish would come in stages: Stage 1: On a regular basis wake up only once a night and go back to sleep with a little comforting Stage 2: sleep in bed in own room, half way through the night come back to our bed. Stage 3: sleep in own bed through the whole night. We are currently trying to achieve stage 1 Consistently. Thank you Tammi
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  182. My ideal sleep for my child would be for her to sleep thru the night, 10-12 hours. I would ideally like her to get up maybe 2 times but be able for me to go in and comfort her back to sleep and for her to be able to go back to sleep within 10 minutes. Right now it takes an hour to put her to sleep once she wakes up making her getting up 2 times a night seem like a lot! Hope this feedback is helpful.
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  183. I want my 2yr old son to sleep in his own bed from 9pm-8am he deos but he needs me to be laying right next to him nd I would like himto take a a nap after his lunch for about 3-4 hrs help
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  184. To get my 25 month old drifting off to sleep alone (after the bedtime routine), at 7:30, and without needing us back before 7am.
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  185. My sleep goal is for my lo to sleep for 5/6 hours without a break every night! At the moment he wakes up every 2/3 hours crying and then can't get back to sleep... Very tired working single mum!
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  186. My wish is to get my 10 month old son to sleep in his crib all night long, and to keep my 2 1/2 year in his bed every night.Most nights he seem to make his way to sleep with Daddy.Yes that means I have FOUR people inculding myself in our bed!!! I would Love not to have to breast feed my 10 month old to sleep everytime he wakes. But it just never seems to be the right time to fight the battle. I would like to go to bed at 900 everynight knowing the my kids have gone to bed 730 for the 10 month old and 800 for the 2 1/2 year old. That would give my 10 month old about 11 hours and my 2 1/2 year old about 10 1/2 hours of sleep. But just as important it would give me and my husband our bed back and our sleep back!! That is what I would ask for if I Imagined a genie appearing and promising to make my sleep wishes come true!!
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  187. A good nights sleep would be our 21 month old sleeping in her own crib or bed 10 to 12 hours beginning at 7:30 pm. At this point she still does not go to sleep without nursing. And now that she sleeps in our bed she has ready access all night and nurses constantly. She naps late in thte afternoon and goes to bed much too late. We need help Sleep Genie!
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  188. My first wish would be ..... to turn my one wish into three !! 1, for my 5 year old daughter to fall asleep in her bed alone without me sneaking out of her room ! 2, to sleep all night ! 3,To stay in her bed all night .Sleepless nights now for 5 years help !!!!
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  189. I would love it if my 7 month old son would sleep for more than 4 hours at a time! He wakes up at least 3 times a night and needs to be rocked or fed to fall asleep again. Magic Genie, help our family get some sleep!
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  191. I wish my 6 month old could learn to put himself to sleep without the breast & without crying for long lengths of time & stay asleep till morning without me having to get up to help him fall back asleep with the breast. I also wish there was some way to put him to bed earlier without his 3 year old brother waking him back up. I am working & up most of the night with the baby. I just need some sleep.
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  192. My idea of good sleep is going to bed between 6 and 8. Sleeping for 11 or 12 hours only waking for one feeding at most.(I have a 6 month old) My daughter goes to bed between 6 and 7. Sleeps 11 hours but gets up twice to eat.
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  193. The problem for me is not getting my child to sleep but getting him to stay asleep in his own bed! I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure how to get him on a schedule for currently there is no consistency; every day is different besides the fact that wake-up time comes by 5:30AM, doesn't seem to matter how long he naps during the day or what time he goes to bed. I am thinking an average nap during the day should occur shortly after lunch and should last for an hour, maybe an hour and a half max! But how can you control that if you are not the one taking care of your child during the day?!?! My care provider has at times allowed my son to nap for 3 hours!!! I figure if I get it straightened out at home he will adjust his nap time accordingly.....HELP!!! My ultimate goal would be for him to sleep for at least 10 hours in his OWN bed from say 8pm till 6pm would be great!!! I would love to see if your program could help :)
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  194. We would love for our toddler to sleep in his own bed for 10 hours, with no interruption. We really need this to happen before the next baby comes along. Thanks so much!
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  195. My sleep goal is to have my daughter sleep more than 2 hrs at a time with out waking up!! So me and her mother can actually get some sleep!!
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  196. I have the sense I'm doing everything good with my twins. Naps, routine, early bedtime. I have super happy energetic babies on my hands. But Im a exausted mom in a marriage crises. That's why: I have to rock million times my babies to preserve the nap. And my husband too. And more time if they wake up after 45 min. They share a room and wake up each other all the time. 95% I get the hours of nap what make a better nigth but I don't have back or arms anymore. They are 9 months now and inconsist in any sense at nigth. Some nigth they sleep from 7 to 6h30. In others they wake up 10 times!!Never at the same time. My dream: consistence because with 2 babies so different I and my husband end up waking up alot any nigth. And debating a lot.
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  197. Dear Magic Genie, We would like our 3yr old to sleep in her own bed all night. She will go to sleep in her own bed but then wakes up at different times everynight and comes into our bed and will not settle back in her own bed. If she has a nap in the day then she isn't tired at bed time so we try not to let her have a nap. Please help us as we have forgotten what its like to get a good nights sleep.
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  198. If wishes came true...my friday evening would look like - baby bear in bed at 8. mama and papa bear enjoy a candle-lit dinner and late night movie in the home theatre. enjoy a long warm bath and sleep like a baby (which baby does this saying talk about). currently its more like dinner time for baby, bath time for baby, story time for baby, bed time for baby....somewhere in between dinner for mam and papa...and before we can sleep Up time for baby...and the sleeping, waking up, in-our-bed continue...till morning. Need help with my 17 month old...and need sleep
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  199. I would LOVE my 27 month old to sleep in his own room....in his own crib or bed! Ideally, I would prefer this to happen without the soothing of a pacifier....which is another obstacle I need to tackle!
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  200. My sleep goal #1 was to help my son settle to bed and learn how to self soothe. Sleep goal #2 is for my son to sleep through the night ... ideally from 7-7 however am happy to feed him before I go to bed around 1030 and then have him sleep through until morning. Final goal and probably our most challenging is to improve naps... I would love 2 longer naps / d rather then our 3 at times short and sweet naps.
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  201. My biggest wish is that my daughter could fall asleep for naps and at night with out fighting it fussing/crying). She can be so inconsistent. One night she fusses for 5 minutes and goes to sleep and the next night we are working at it for over an hour. We never know what helps/works and what doesn't because of this inconsistency. There is so much information out there that we never know if what we are doing is the right thing or not. Also, that she would sleep through the night again. A bad cold set us back and we can't seem to get her to sleep through the night again. We feel defeated and desperate. Thank you from Mr. and Mrs. Very Sleepy
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  202. Predictability! If I knew each night he was going to do the same thing (preferably 9-11 hours straight in his crib), I would feel so much better!
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  203. Dear Magic Genie, I have some sleep wishes that I would like to come true ASAP. They are as follows: At 700pm my ten month old starts to rub his eyes and looks at me dream like. I bring him to his room and offer his cuddly blanket which he takes very thankfuly and snuggles quietly into bed and isnt heard from until 630am. Also, my 2 year old, who is sleeping with me because her night wakings wake her 10 month old brother who shares a room with her. Which of course puts my dear husband on the couch. I would like for my 2 year old beautiful daughter to sleep in her bed, all the while making not a peep, from 8pm to 630am. This giving her all of her beauty sleep. My 10 year old daughter is a perfect sleeper I only ask that she may wake a little more pleasant. Thank you Great Sleep Genie, Krista
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  204. My 'sleep goal' is for my 9 month old son to sleep at least 6 hours at a time and be able to sleep the whole night in his own crib with out spending half the night in my bed. ... After reading some other posts below, I see I'm not the only one having so much trouble with getting my lil' one to sleep on his own, in his own crib, for a decent amount of time. I'm happy I'm not only one finding this a hard one to over come. I thought I was the only one having troubles!
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  206. My sleep goal would be to have my 2.5 year old not have to be nursed to sleep first off, secondly to sleep by himself - I have transitioned "us" to his room and his bed instead of "us" in my kingsized crib in my room and lastly to not have him needing to be nursed throughout the night to sleep. My son goes to bed at 9:00 and then is up at 1:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and then finally 7:30 for the day. He is now old enough to also tell me he needs a nap when he wants to be nursed. HELP!!
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  207. Dear Dana, For me a good night sleep would be if my beautiful little one could fall asleep with no assistance. If he could stay asleep with out me beside him at every nap and night time. I would be overjoyed if he was able to sleep in his own bed/crib, fall asleep there and stay asleep there. I've been avidly following your emails and in touch with my local sleep sense coordinated. Thanks so much for this opportunity. Hoping and praying, Ashley
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  208. My goal is to get my son, who is 7 months old, to sleep through the night with atleast 6 uninterrupted hours of sleep in his crib. From 2-5 months we were getting an average of 10-11 hours of sleep. Since 5 months, he refuses to sleep in his crib and he wakes up every 1 1/2-2 hours. I would ultimately love to go back to 10-11 hours at night, but would settle for atleast 6 at a time.
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  209. My goals are 1) for my baby (7 months old) to go to sleep in the night without crying and 2) sleep for 12 hours at night (she wakes up twice for feeding at the moment)
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  211. My ultimate sleep goal would be 6 hours uninterupted sleep! For right now anyways, my son is only 5 months old. Occasionally he will sleep that long already but it is not consistent.
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  212. My sleep goal would be for my daughter Ruby to sleep from 8 in the evening until 7 in the morning and to wake up a happy baby as since Ruby was born she has really struggled with her sleeping to the point where in 3 days and nights she only slept for at a push an hour and the whole time she was awake she just screamed. she is now 5 months old and is still not a very happy baby as no matter what we do she will not go to sleep.
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  213. My ultamite sleep goal would be to have to be for my 2 and half year old to have a full nights sleep. He wakes up between 5:30-6:00am and it's really throwing my husband and I into sleep comas. If we had it our way, it would be nice for him to sleep until 7:30-8:00am. When he wakes up as early as he does, he's so cranky in the morning. Has meltdowns way to quickly and very difficult to handle. We just want a smoother morning routine that doesn't resolve in everyone being cranky and tired all the time.
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  214. I have a two year old and he is still sleeping in our room. Yesterday, we got him a toddler bed and he had the hardest time switching from our bed to his bed. Yes, I said it our bed...lol! My son has slept the majority of his sleep life in our bed!!! Now with the toddler bed he is waking up constantly which is making for a rough night of sleep. My husband works second shift so it's hard for him to sleep when he gets home. And on top of it all, we are wanting another baby and having your 2 yr. old in your bed and in your room makes it a little difficult to try! I would love to have any advice on moving his bed in his room, have him sleep through the night, for me not to give in and let him sleep in our bed or room, and for him to stay in his bed in his room! I am open to any help at this point!!! Thank you!!
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  215. I would like Aiden to sleep one 6 hour stretch (I am nursing) and then go back to sleep for another 4-5 hours. Or even sleep a few hours, wake to to eat, and then sleep 6 hours. Basically a 6 hour stretch is what I am hoping for.
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  217. Wow, reading through these comments, it seems like a lot of you are having a hard time. I did the "Babywise" technique and my now 7 month old baby has been sleeping 10-12 hours a night since she was 3 months old. My son who was a preemie born at 26 weeks was sleeping through the night at 6 months old. Other moms I know have done "Babywise" with the same results. If you don't like Babywise, find another method you agree with. But the one thing as a parent is that you have to find what works for you... and you have to be happy with what you choose. For example, if you decide to feed your child while sitting on the carpet, don't be upset that your carpet gets dirty because you chose to feed your child on the carpet! :) Hang in there everyone :)
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  218. The dream for what my child's night would be if he could fall asleep unassisted. He only falls asleep when he is being fed or if I rock him. When he wakes at night he refuses to go back to sleep on his own or when I'm next to him trying to soothe him by singing or petting his head with my fingers. I must take him out of bed and feed him until he falls back to sleep, which can sometimes be an hour! And this sometimes happens 2 to 3 times a night, and then hes up at 7. So this is what I wish he could work on, and get to sleep on his own...so he doesn't depend on me to help him with it.
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  219. My nine month old son has been sleeping a longer stretch ever since I took Dana advise of putting him into a sleep routine and a much earlier bed time. Now baby will sleep from 8pm to 230am drink 140ml of milk and return to sleep immediately after finishing his milk and sleep until 730am and will be up and about. I wish he could sleep straight from 8pm to 8am!! It's definitely my new year resolution!!!
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  220. For my goal i want my four month old to sleep in his cot in his own room for 12 hours 7-7. not waking up for his bottle or dummy. he has never slept through and wakes up at least 5 times. I need sleep :(
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  221. For my goal i want my 22 month old boy to sleep in his crib not in my bed for 12 hours without waking up for breast feed.and to put him in bed early not late . he never slept in his crib since 1 day old .i want to sleep badly without waking up many times through the night am so tired .
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  222. My 15 month old son used to be a great sleeper as a small baby until he was about 6 months old. my sleep goal would be for him to sleep between 10 and 12 hours a night uninterupted in his cot. I have started to take headaches during the day because I am so tired. He sleeps at lunch time every day between 1 and a half to 2 hours which is great and goes to sleep in his cot fine every night but he wakens a few hours later to be lifted andif i dont he squeals and then i have to as i have 2 older boys. Its a vicious circle.
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  223. I would love to have my evenings back to myself. It has been just hitting 5 years since I have not struggled to put my older child to bed. In the end, we lay down with him as it just creates havoc with my younger child getting over stimulated by his brother. So in the end, I have two kids I am struggling to get down. My older one wakes up 1-2xes during the night which results in him coming into our bed. So a good nights sleep is being able to put both kids to bed on their own and then I can go and read or watch tv.
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  224. I would looooove to sleep a straight 8 hrs. My 13 month old still gets up at least twice a night. He usually will go back to sleep if I give him a bottle, but I am trying to teach him to self soothe. It's not working out. Please help.
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  225. a good night sleep for me and my baby would be her sleeping in her crib not her swing and not waking up so much for a bottle. She will not take a pacifier and is using her bottles as comfort. she'll sometimes drink the whole six oz or if i take it away after five minutes of sucking a lot of time she'll go right back to sleep. she doesnt know how to self sooth
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  226. I would like my 6 month old to soothe himself back to sleep. If we slept 5-6 hours that would be a success. He wakes up and needs to be held to go back to sleep.
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  228. My sleep goal if for my 16 month old to sleep continuously throughout the night without a night time bottle. She enjoys her bedtime routine and goes to sleep at 7.30pm but wakes between 5 and 12 times crying EVERY night. She cant go back to sleep by herself and we often have to stay up over an hour before we can settle her back to sleep. Both my husband and I work full time so suffer from lack of sleep. Hard to see how this will ever improve.
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  230. My sleep goal is to have my baby sleep for 8-10 hours non stop, No waking for food or needing to be soothed back to sleep.
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  231. I am OK rocking him to sleep, feed him every 3 hours. I don't expect too much from a baby. But my problem is that I cannot put him down on his own crib. He will wake up immediately and crying. Some time, he wakes up every 10 mins after I put him on his crib (at that time he is sleepping).So my goal is to let me put him down after rock him to sleep, and please sleep at least 2 hours straight. It will be super if he could sleep for more than 3 hours straight.
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  233. My son is 11 months old. It was a miracle he was even born. From he moment of his birth he was very sick and had a severe case of RSV and Jaundice. He had to sleep under a bilirubin light for three days and nights. Only coming out for a diaper change and to eat. So, from that moment on he would only sleep in my arms after coming out of the light. He falls to sleep nursing at night and will sleep in his crib for only a little while. He wakes up 30 minutes after he goes to bed and I have to rock him back to sleep ie he will scream for a long time. After he is asleep, I turn in or I won't get any sleep. His best sleep is from about 8:30 P.M to 12:30 A.M. And that's on a good night. From there he is awake every 2 hours wanting to nurse. And he doesn't quite sleep great. He tosses and turns the whole time. I try to put him back in his crib and he just screams. I have 3 other children and instead of letting him cry himself to sleep, I hold him for the rest of the night so my children and husband can sleep. I am so tied all the time and would love a good nights sleep. I would love for my baby to sleep even 6 hours. I wouldn't know what to do with myself with a full nights sleep.
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  234. A good nights sleep for me is both Baby Luke and I getting more than 5 hours sleep at night. He almost always wakes up at least once, but usually twice throughout the night. He doesn't require it on anymore (mostly because he's too heavy now for it to even run), but he does sleep in his swing. We have tried the crib and he just screams and when I do get him back to sleep, it's because I've either given him a bottle or patted him. He is 6 months old and is on the verge of being too big for the swing. I NEED HELP! My husband and I both work full-time and need our rest and I know how important it is for Luke's development that he get enough sleep as well. I would love for him to sleep through the night, uninterrupted in his crib.
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  235. My sleep goal for my 7 mo. old baby is that he would sleep from his dream feed at 10 to 6 or 7 a.m. without needing to eat again. I know he can go that long because he has in the past but he usually wakes up for other reasons (learning to crawl, varioud coughs and colds) around 3 or 4 and then has trouble getting back to sleep without eating. He usually doesn't cry when he's awake but just moves around in the crib a lot, babbling to himself and then eventually starts to fuss when he can't settle down. I love seeing him (even in the night) but I work full time and it's tiring me out to be up for an hour or more listening to him talk on the monitor and then breastfeeding him too. Is 8 hrs a realistic goal?
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  237. My goal is that my 2 years old sleeps 12 hours at night without waking himself for a bottle or if he awakes he can easily fall to sleep without help! He is most of the time good, but when we travel or he feels he has a change all his schedule/routine get messy. I would like him to be consistence with his night's habits no matter the location.
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  238. My 5 month old Daughter Indi currently sleeps from 7 pm until about 4 am wakes for a feed then usually ends up in my bed because if she is in her bed after 4 am she continues to nap, so I am up and down. If she is in my bed she breast feeds on and off until 6 and I can at least get a bit more sleep. It would be great to streatch it out to a 6 am wake up. What do you think? cheers Debra
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  239. My goal for my 11month old would be to consistently sleep at least 11hours every night. He has done it once last weekend then the following night woke up SEVEN times! How can that be?!
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  240. I'm a single mother who has lived with family since my daughter arrived almost 5 years ago. She was born at 25 weeks and with that came a host of obstacles. Sleeping was one of them. While I have her on a good schedule, getting her to sleep in her bed (although it was in my room) was definitely a challenge. It finally paid off, but when she got sick we had to start the process all over again. She has always enjoyed the closeness and still does. I will say this as a bit of info for new mothers...don't let anyone tell you that it's OK for your child to fall asleep while nursing. It may be what follows you for a while.. as it has seemed to be in my case. Because my daughter is finally doing well and is in pre K, I am now able to get my life back and continue my education and try to get back into the work field. I am trying to move to a place of our own. She is still sleeping in my bed and sleeps only 10 or less if she went to bed late. I try to have her in the bed by 7:30pm and depending on how tired she is, she is usually asleep before 8 or just after. I am hoping that her having a room of her own in the soon future will help her to be able to sleep in her own space. What do you think? Desiree
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  241. I have twins boys they are 2 1/2 years old.we don't have any problem with naps or night sleap.It only took one week to teach them how to sleap by themself with help from your video
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  242. I´m glad to say that after 3 painful months of continous awakenings we´re finally sleeping very close to our goal which is 12 hours every night. My daughter goes to bed at 7pm after a routine which includes dinner, bath, pjs, bottle, cleaning gums, song, and I leave the room when she is still awake. This was very important part of my goal and was hard to achieve, she wakes up at 6:15 am. What still bothers me is that she still cries at night sometimes then goes back to sleep by herself, and in the morning she wakes up crying, the same after naps. With naps we are still working on it, she still needs my help to fall asleep.
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  244. A good nite sleep to me would be my 21 month old daughter sleeping through the night or at least a good 6 hour stretch. Eventually, I would like to get her to go to sleep on her own also without my having to rock her, but right now I would be ecstatic to get at least a straight 6-8 hours of sleep at night.
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  246. I would LOVE for my 5 year old twin girls to sleep in their own bed instead of mine and wake up fulfilled with the sleep they received. Also, hoping my 6 week old baby girl would sleep at least a good 6 to 8 hours before waking up!!
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  248. Our goal is to have our twin 18 month olds sleep through the night, soothing themselves to sleep when they awaken during the night, for a solid 10 hours of sleep each.
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  249. I would like my child to sleep 11/12 hours without waking up like he used to instead he wakes couple of times threw the night
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  250. would love to get 11 hours of solid sleep from her. 7:30 to 6:30 works great for us during the week. Though I would love it to be 7AM during the weekends.
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  251. Baby (18 months) wakes up at night and stands in her crib...stops crying after 5 minutes but sleeps standing up if we dont go get her and lay her back down. We have let her stand for more than an hour before in hopes that she will fall asleep and falldown but she continues to stand. what can we do?
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  252. I ultimate sleep goal for my daughter(2 1/2) would be for her to have the utmost normality that I could possily provide her with being that her father and I are separated and she is having to juggle between both homes. For me it would be the abilities to have dinner together as we do following bath time and get ready for bed with out fighting the idea of knowing that after her bath she knows it will b bed time very shortly after. I wish I could figure a way to make it even more fun for her to be able to entice her to want to rest. I have tried a million different ways but as all children, they get bored with the same ideas.. I would love for her to get , with how my scheduale is; a solid 8-10 hours of sleep;) it would warm my heart knowing she us geting the proper rest for her little body to grow strong;)
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  253. I would like my 7 month old baby to take naps in the day that don't involve me either feeding her to sleep (massive sin) or pushing her around in her buggy....and for her naps (at least one....she takes two naps a day) to last longer than 30 minutes, which is the maximum she will do if not in my arms....then maybe I could fix her night sleeping, which is a bit hit and miss - some nights she gets up once for a feed, other nights she will be up approx 4 times for feeds (this used to be 6/7 times a night until recently so there has been some improvement!!)....I blame teething for the bad nights, and myself for not believing in letting your baby cry themselves to sleep...I am so exhausted than we mostly end up co-sleeping which I personally did not want to do as I know this is going to be another 'habit' that will possibly be hard to break....any suggestions that don't involve letting her cry would be greatly appreciated, she is a reflux baby & after months of her being in pain, I can't bare to let her cry unnecessarily. Help
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  254. A good nights sleep for me is more then two hours disturbed sleep at night. I wish I could sleep one full night for at least 6 hours undisturbed. My sleep goal is for my 9 months twins, one boy one girl. The problem s the have two different sleep patterns and wake each other up during the course of the night. I would like at least one night of peaceful sleep
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  255. I just wanted to stay in bed for another 2 hours. My son wake us up every morning later than 6.30. Although, I cannot complain as every night he is in bed by 8pm. My advice if whatever is your situation keep trying do not give up.
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  256. Our adopted son Dominick will not sleep alone. He's been home for over 3 years - we adopted him at 18 months from Korea. He was used to the "family bed" so for the first year my husband and I took turns sleeping with him - but we can't seem to get him to stop. Even if he falls asleep in his own bed - he will get up in the middle of the night looking for me and come into our bed. Help!
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  257. I would love if Michelle my 11 months old daughter would sleep at least 10 hours without waking up at night, she sleeps less than four hours at a time, and it's really having a toil on me. I am overtired most days and this is making me miserable.
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  258. My 2 year old is a horrible sleeper. He starts off fine, but in the middle of the night, he wakes and either cries or wants something to drink. He never sleeps the through the night. It's like he is never fully rested. My sleep goal for him would be to sleep through the night without waking; and if he did wake up, he could put himself back to sleep without me.
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  259. A good night sleep for me and my child would look like 8-12 hours of solid sleep. My 6 month old son wakes often in the middle of the night because he loses his pacifier and can't quite figure out how to get it back in his mouth yet. I end up getting up and putting it in his mouth for him and he falls back asleep. For this reason we stil have him in our room in the pack-in-play and have yet to move him to his crib. I would like him to be able to fall back asleep without my help and be sleeping in his own room.
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  260. My sleep goal is for my 3 year old daughter to get enough sleep to be herself again. Our lives have been turned upside down since her pacifier was taken away about 6 months ago. She refuses to nap and gets less than 8-9 hours of sleep a night due to getting up out of her bed several times a night and waking up unable to fall asleep again. It has affected every aspect of our lives, she is not able to pay attention in school activities and does not listen anymore. She is also constantly sick. She gets frequent colds and has trouble getting rid of them. We need sleep help!!!!!!
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  262. A good nights sleep for me is not about how long I get to sleep but the quality of the sleep I get. If I can wake up after my son has slept for 6 hours straight & not feel tired that's enough for me. I'm lucky to get 2 hours unbroken sleep at the moment so anything more than that is a bonus
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  263. The near future (next 3-4 month) sleep goal for our 12 weeks son Damian would be for him to learn to fall asleep on his own and wake up just once during the night for feeding within a 11-12h night's sleep.
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  264. For my younger son,getting back to one feed per night would be great (we've just had a growth spurt, teething, immunisation jabs and ear infection all on top of each other so bad jabbits have formmed over the past fortnight). For my older boy, I'd like to stretch his awake time out in the morning without getting an overtired monster. He's starting pre school soon and would usually be sleeping while the session is still running. I'd also like to get him back to a 6am wake up (we have anything between 5 and half past at the moment) which we did using a fro clock but now he has realised we have control over when the sun comes up he just ignores it. My ultimate wish would be a plan for when ear infections hit to help keep things on track until the antibiotics kick in.
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  265. I would like my baby to sleep 11-12 hours straight. She currently goes to bed around 7pm and wakes up between 5-7AM but she's still restless all night and wakes up 3-4 times. We don't go to her anymore and she only cries for 30sec-1min but I don't understand why she keeps waking up. A chiropractor suggested swaddling her but she's almost a year old. We'll keep on working at it!
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  267. My son is 9 months old. He has been sleeping in our bed for the past five months. We are now starting to put him in his own bed. He wakes up at least two times a night screaming and we put him back in our bed. I work and I have to get sleep. This is the only thing I know to do. My two goals are for him to go to bed in his own bed and stay asleep for the full 8 hours.
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  268. My goal is to have my son to sleep 12 hours straight. Being able to go to sleep on his own and stay asleep until morning. He is very restless and wakes up in the night, sometimes multiple times.
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  269. My son is 8 1/2 months and is breastfeed. My goal would be to wean him off the nursing at night and get him to fall asleep on his own. I'm a working mom so its hard to deny him that closeness at night when I only get a few hours a day with him.
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  270. I have 2 goals for my son's sleep. I am a single mom and it's very difficult having to be the only one to wake up with him. He's gotten into the habit of waking up multiple times every night(every few hours). My goal is to get him to sleep for at least 8 hours straight every night without waking up and wanting to snack out of habit. I also would love for him to finally sleep in his own bed. I have created a monster, but I am desperate for sleep.
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  271. My ultimate sleep goal is for leo to sleep through at least eight hours without waking up for his dummy or waking up crying.
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  272. My ultimate sleep goal for my daughter would be two-fold. She drinks a bottle fine but still needs a feeding from me in order to fall asleep most of the time. AND she is sharing my bed. So if this genie of yours paid me a visit, I would ask him or her to allow my daughter to sleep in her own bed comfortably and fall asleep with a bottle, or on her own with no drink. Anything but a feeding from me. Not that I don't enjoy holding and cuddling her when she breastfeeds, but to get to sleep? No...'cause then she invariably falls asleep on me!
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  274. I would love for my daughter to sleep 11-12 hours a night, but most importantly sleep through my getting ready for work in the morning :)
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  275. I want my daughter to have at least a 5 hour sleep before waking for a feed, but preferably 7 hours (she's 29 weeks) she's not a very good eater of solids yet so has never stopped night feeding. I want her to go back off to sleep easily after her feed and have another long sleep at least 4 hours, possibly followed by her morning feed and a few more hours sleep. She seems to average 10- 11 hours all together per night, if she gets this over all I'm happy enough. I'm happy to continue night feeding (breast fed) as long as its for nutritional reasons rather than comfort, but it's very hard to know the difference sometimes as she should in theory have stopped night feeding by now.
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  276. My husband and I are working seprete shifts. I put the kids down for bed at 9pm every night. Elijah our youngest is 1 1/2, he only sleeps through the night if I give him dinner late and give him his last bottle for the night just after 9. I often hear him get up in the middle of the night, and since I have to get up in the early morning my husband will get up with him, give him another bottle, change him and then he falls back to sleep most of the time. Once in a few days the only way to get him back to sleep is for me to get up and put him in our bed, once asleep I carefully put him in his own bed. Then of course I get up the next day tired and exhusted. Our sleep goal would be to put him to bed at 9am and get him up at 9am. My husband works 2nd shift so he normally gets to bed pretty late. I get the other kids up with me in the morning for school. Just not sure its even possible to get him to sleep through the night everynight when our schedules are so different.
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  277. It would be my dream for my 15 month old to sleep in his bed and not mine. My partner and I haven't shared the same bed for over 1 year! Many thanks
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  278. I would love my little one to "sleep in" a bit more. 7.30am would be nice!! Wishful thinking I know. She goes down around 7.15pm but doesn't actually sleep until about 20 to 30 mins later so not sure if this is what we should be doing but it's working for us so far.
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  279. I would like for my little boy (6months) to sleep for lengths of 3 hours or more through the night. I would love one of those stretches to be 5 or 6 hours! It would be nice if he didn't wake up for the day as early as he does (currently 5am ish) although if my first two wishes were granted this might not be so important! And ideally, he would go back I to his cot after his 10pm feed rather than in our bed so I could sleep comfortably with my husband! A nap of two hours during the day would be extremely convenient also, but now I'm being greedy!
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  280. I have a 3 year old(38 months) son who takes FOREVER to go to sleep. He is a great Sleeper once he falls asleep, it's getting him to go to bed & stay in bed that is The problem. It started when we moved his 1 year old brother into his room, 9 months ago. We keep saying it's a phase but it's not getting any better. He will not stay in his bed at bedtime! We have the same bedtime routine every night, pjs, brush teeth & story time. He continues to get in & out of his bed & room for an hour to 2 hours every night with every excuse under the sun. We have tried everything to get him to stay in bed, special bed toys, rewards, sitting in his room, putting him back in bed w/ out talking to him or showing emotions, shutting his door & nothing works! We even tried not giving him a naps during the day, that just made the whole day a BEAR! 95% of the time he falls asleep for nap w/ in 10 minutes of laying down. The only thing I can think of is that he thinks he is missing out on something because both my husband & I are home at night time. Please help!
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  281. My sleep goal is for my baby to stay asleep for more than a 3 or 4 hour stretch in his OWN bed. He will sleep pretty well in our bed but in his own bed he only makes it a few hours. Id love for him to sleep 8 hours in his own bed!
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  283. Uninterrupted sleep - my baby wakes about 4-5 times during his 12 hour sleep - a little tuck in of his sheets sort it 95% of the time - but it would be great for him to go all night !
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  284. I would love to go to sleep on my own and read a book in bed and relax. As it stands my little one demands to get in my bed at 10pm every night. I have been too soft with her and I am desperate to get this sorted as I became a single parent over christmas and I am really struggling.
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  285. My sleep goal for Owen would be for him to be able to sleep through the night for 10 hours, without needing a feed (he's 5 months old) and without needing a dummy when he wakes up. I'm desperate for some sleep and my marraige is suffering because of my moods. I have read some of the sleep program information but really struggle when he cries. I don't know how to deal with the crying without giving in and giving him the dummy.
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  286. to explain better my daughter is now nearly 4 and since birth she has neva slept for long without waking up hysterical and it takes a good hour or more to calm her down. i have a 7 yr old nd a 15 month old baby nd they have always slept fine so i dont understand why she doesnt she exhausts me.
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  287. For me a good night sleep would be 8-10 hours of uninterrupted sleep. My 10month old usually sleeps about 10 hours from the time we put him down until the time he is ready to be up for the day, however, he wakes many many times in that 10 hour span. If we could successfully get him to sleep 10 hours it would be wonderful, for baby and mommy!
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  289. A good night's sleep would be at least a couple of undisturbed stretches. Ok, maybe just one. How about a minimum of 6 hours in one go every night? Baby is 7 months, shares our bedroom (own cot), and currently wakes up twice a night to feed... argh.
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  290. I would give anything for a decent nights sleep my 9month old wakes a few times a night 4 a drink and then drift back off my 23month old comes thru crying and won't settle unless he gets in with us feel like not enjoying them as much as I should as walking round like a zombie
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  291. I would like Oliver to go to sleep earlier as he is happy to stay awake until well past 9pm every night. He also always wants me to stay with him until he goes to sleep which I started early on when he moved into a bed and now can't seem to break without lots of tears. He is 6 now so I am hoping this will get better as I need to have my evenings back!
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  292. I have 2 sleep goals. 1st goal is for my 5 month old to sleep longer than his 6 hour stretch now. He goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 2 then back to bed from 230-7. I would like for him to sleep 8pm-7am without waking up for 2oz of milk at 2am. 2nd goal is to get my 4yr old out of my bed or to atleast stay in his all night. If he goes to sleep in his bed, he ends up in ours just a few hours later. He also is unable to go to sleep without watching TV or DVD of some sort and I know that was a bad habit to start.
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  293. You asked what my sleep goal would be... well, let me tell you. My little Tanner, who's 13 months old still wakes up once, sometimes twice a night. He goes to bed around 7:30 -8:00 and get up around 1:00 am then again at 5:00 am... So my sleep goal would just be for him to sleep from 8:00 - 6:00.. I would be a happy camper!!
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  294. My sleep goal would be to have my baby girl go to sleep without a bottle and for me to get uninterrupted sleep for at least 6 hours. My daughter is 1 year old and I feel like I'm never getting the hang of it.
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  295. My daughter is 2 years 8 months. She is good at going to sleep and staying in her own bed (but shouting from it!). My sleep goal now would be for her to sleep through the night - at least 10 hours, preferably 11 (she still has a nap in the day). She's done it twice and it was amazing!
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  296. For my 4yo son to not retreat to my bed in the middle of the night 4-5 of 7 nights per week, other than that I am very very happy with the usual 7:30-8:30pm to 6:30-7:30am pattern.
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  297. My goal is to have my 14 month old out of my bed and back in his crib for the whole night. I don't expect him to sleep through the night but most of the night would be nice. I am up every hour with him. We have tried many differnt sleep ideas and nothing seems to work. I am exhausted, this routine is going on 6 months now.
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  298. My ideal skeep goal would be from 8pm to 8am. So a 12 hour stretch in his own cot. If we are wishing then may as well wish for the perfect bed time routine :)
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  299. my perfect night sleep would have oscar to go all the way through in his own cot and not in our bed and maybe go down before 10pm
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  300. My prefect sleep night would be to have my little one sleeping at least 8 hrs and spending the WHOLE night in his bed instead of star-fishing in the middle of mind.
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  301. A good nights sleep for me is atleast a good stretch, 6-8 hrs would be nice ideally everyone wants the 10-12 but I don't want to be greedy! A good nights sleep = happy baby & happy mum:)
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  302. My 19 month old appears to be the most happy and content when he has slept without waking from from 7pm - 6am (ish) with a nap of 1 hour plus during the day. This very rarely happens but when it does we are all much happier!
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  304. My daughter, Victoria, is 13 weeks old. Both my husband and I have been working to get her into a routine since she was 11 weeks. Currently I am trying to follow the book "Save our Sleep" by Tizzie Hall, which discusses how to get your child to self settle and enforces routine. My goal is to get Victoria to go to bed on her own by 7:30pm each night. We have a routine of bath time at 6:30, Feed at 7:00 and put her to bed awake at 7:30. Most of the time Victoria cries the minute we take her out of the bath and put her into sleeping bag. Its as if she knows its bedtime. From that moment on, it can be anywhere from 20minutes to 2 hours to get her to sleep. If she does fall asleep in our arms, Victoria will wake after one sleep cycle - 40 minutes. I don't have problems with getting her to nap during the day, and she only wakes once at night to nurse (sometimes sleeping all the way until 5:30am). My ultimate goal is finding a loving way to put our baby to bed without spending hours soothing her to sleep. I unsure of the method in letting Victoria cry it out as she gets very distressed and becomes more difficult to settle. Finding a routine or method which will allow our baby to calmly fall asleep, without being in our arms or usingof a pacifier is the ultimate goal.
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  305. I'd really like Clark to consistently sleep through the night again. He is 16 months old and only ever did it between 13 and 15 months, and then he's back to waking up 1 to several times a night. Hoping it's just a phase as I get up for work every day at 6:30 so really need some rest!
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  307. Ideally I am aiming for my baby to eventually go to bed at 7 or 8pm and sleep for around 12 hours till 7am or 8 am. I would hope that she was able to do this by the time I have to return to work when she is 11 months old. Currently my 4 month old goes to bed between 7.30 and 9pm has a dream feed at 11pm and is waking at 6am which is a vast improvement for her, so I'm happy we're heading in the right direction. The best thing I did was get rid of the soother as she was constantly waking needing it popped back in during the night.
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  309. A good night sleep for me, is my daughter stelling well at night, wiith little fuss and sleeping peacefully until around 7 the next morning.
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  310. I have two children one of three and one of fourteem months. Neither of them sleep all night. Tthe three year old wakes constantly, sometimes very disturbed and barely awake. He comes through to our room and wants to get into bed with us. I have tried to put him back but he wants me to lie with him and even then he doesnt really settle and comes through again. He has never really slept and seems to have other issues that i am sure stem from him being tired.
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  311. My 2.5 year old little boy goes off to sleep beautifully every night at about 7.15pm but wakes anywhere between 2am and 4am and comes into our bed and after that I am awake for the rest of the night. I was diagnosed with insomnia several years ago so what sleep I get is very precious and I would give anything for him to sleep through until 6-6.30am. Have tried lots of things but, he gets very hysterical if I put him back then he is wide awake and I have him up for hours. If he comes into our bed he is fast asleep again two minutes later - but, I'm not!! Would be nice to have more than a couple of hours sleep a night....
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  312. My ideal night sleepsleep fot my son is, to be able ti put him down awake at night and for him to have 8 solid hours, then to have a morning power nap of 45 mins then to have his afternoon kip of 2 hours, which my son is now doing
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  313. After transitioning my 2yr old boy into a bed my sleep goal is to get him to go to bed, stay in his bed and settle himself to sleep without the need for mummy or daddy to stay in the room until he is asleep (which can be 45 mins to 1 hr 30 mins every night). It would be wonderful if he would sleep 10 to 11 hours every night in his own bed and not wake mummy and daddy until 6am in the morning.
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  314. Hi. I want my little girl to fall asleep peacefully with a smile on her face without any drama. I am more than happy to be present and have a little good night talk or read a book and cuddle and hold hand till she is sound asleep. I am happy if she has 11 hours of good sleep without waking up but if not comfortable for any reason I want to be close enough to offer support and reassurance. That's what works for us and I am pretty happy with that. Thanx
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  315. My ultimate sleep goal is 12 hours. Hailey is doing well mow but she wakes up after about 7 hours. I would just love to have a night of uninterrupted sleep.
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  316. Hi, My baby girl is sleeping from 9pm until 7am thanks to your advice. I followed your steps about not letting her rely on a bottle during the night and know she will only wake up for a few minutes during the night & I give her a soother, now my goal is to get her to sleep and not wake up for the soother ! Thanks for all your help !
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  317. I would wish for nights that my little girl could sleep soundly all night without waking up so distressed beyond the point of being able to self settle.
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  318. |I wish my 11 month old son could fall asleep by himself once I've given him his bottle and cuddles. It would be fantastic if he could also sleep through the night without coming into our bed.
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  319. I wish I could put my little girl to bed at 7.30pm and that she would sleep all night and she would wake up the next morning at 7am. I wish she would go to sleep without making a fuss!!! I would love to have one goodnight sleep for once!
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  320. My sleep goal for my 4 and a half months old baby is he goes to bed around 7pm and wake up around 7am the next morning. He really puts up with a fight every night before going to sleep. He just refuses to go to sleep between 7-9pm no matter how tired he is. He will cry for hours if we try to put him down. He wasn't hungery or too hot/cold,neither his nappy is wet. He just doesnt want to go to sleep! It's a nightmare dealing with him everyday from 7-9pm. He sleeps fine during the day time and never fights for the day sleeps. We really don't know what his problem is!
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  324. I would like my three year old to sleep a solid 10 hours. I would like him to sleep from 8 in the night to 6 in the morning.That would be wonderful.
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  325. I would love for my 11-month-old son to be able to soothe himself back to sleep when he transitions between light and deep sleep; I want him to be able to sleep in his own bed through the night, at least 8 hours straight. Right now he wakes up after 3 hours in his crib and it's difficult for him to settle back down. If I do get him to settle back down, he is up at least several times after that during the rest of the night. We all need a good night's sleep in our house.
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  327. Right now anything better than the hourly waking he has done since birth would be fantastic, seriously even 5 times a night would be brilliant, we are now 2 years and 3 months into this long term debilitating sleep deprivation. Initially caused by central sleep apnea he now follows the habits that were set up in the first instance and I feel too tired to even think about breaking them. However in answer to the actual question - I want him to sleep 12 hours a night just like his big brother does and give me back my addled brain, my evenings and my ability to think straight (as a caveat I just want to say that I know how lucky I am to have him - however badly he sleeps & he is amazing in every other way, but that would be my genie wish - that and a lottery win please)!
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  329. Just for Hebe-Rose to sleep for a 5-6 hour stretch each night would be heavenly. I am not asking for much! We are all so tired as she wakes every night at least 3-4 times. As a single parent doing it all its hard work!
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  330. I would just love to have 8 hours sleep again (like the good old days!!!), however if 6 hours were achievable at the moment, I would be over the moon!
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  331. My sleep goal for my 20 month old Son Rufus is for him to sleep till later in the morning. He currently goes to bed between 7 - 7:30pm and wakes at anytime between 5:30 and 6:15. We would like him to sleep till at least 7:00am.
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  332. My wife subscribed to the prohramme and it has been working for us (nearly there!). What we would like to achieve is for Ansh (our son) to sleep through the night for about 10-12 hrs. he still does get up sometimes around midnight for about 20 mts.
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  333. My little boy used to sleep well but since May 2010 he has been constantly ill, and now his sleep is disturbed. I would like for him to get some solid sleep, 7-7 would be great but I'd settle for less. He also seems at the moment to having bad dreams? Waking up screaming. Breaks my heart to see him look scared.
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  334. I have a 22month old little girl and I wish she would sleep in her toddler bed from been 4months she was put to bed awake and slept through and has done right up until my little boy was born, it's a nightmare my 7month old boy sleeps straight through but only in my bed so my sleep goal for both would be for them to sleep in their own beds and if they wake to settle themselves I'd love your help xx
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  335. I have a 4 month old that used to sleep 6-7 hours then waking for his dummy and back to sleep for another 2 hours. Lately he has been waking every 2-3 hours. I would love for him to sleep 10 hours straight. I have tried everything, even controlled crying method but as he has reflux it does not work, he just throws up if we let him cry it out for too long.
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  336. Hello, I have a 7 month old girl, she had been sleeping very well up to around 6-6 1/2 months then it all changed. Her sleeping pattern has been from 6.30-6.45 through till her 10.30 feed (which still hasn't dropped even though she is on solids) through till about 4-5am waking for a feed then back down until 7am. This was ok, however now she seems to be waking up 2-3 times in the night and not settling. I would love for her to sleep from 7-7 this would be a heaven!!!
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  337. I would like my daughter ( Erin 8 months) to have similar nights sleep each night, sometimes she sleeps well waking only once for a feed, and other times she wakes four, five times and finds it difficult to settle back to sleep. If she would sleep all night (11-12 hours) that would be a dream come true!!
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  339. Short-term goal: for our daughter, 10 weeks tomorrow, to continue with her 6.5 hour stretches at night. It has only been two nights in a row, but for her to continue would be great! Long-term goal: for Petra to be in bed by 7:30 and sleep until 6:30 the next morning with one or two feedings. (And for her to return to sleep in less than an hour during those feedings). =)
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  341. Our sleep goal for our daughter would be her getting 12-hours of uninterrupted sleep! She still wakes several times a night and needs my help to fall asleep again.
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  343. My daughter currently sleep in her cot in her own room. Although she wakes around four times to feed during the night at nearly ten months old. My goal is to: put her to bed at 7 after her bed time routine which starts around 6 and feed around 10 and them her sleep until 6 without waking or if she does get her back to sleep without feeding. I haves age to do this in the early weakening but not after midnight
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  344. I would wish for my princess to go to bed without being feed or rocked or driven or her back rubbed and sleep through until morning and most importantly wake happy.
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  345. My sleep goal is for my 14 month old son Aryan to fall asleep by himself, in his cot and sleep for 12 hours straight through the night.
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  346. To get more than 3 hours sleep at night! Between my 2 yo who wakes at 11 till 1/2am n my 8month old who's up at 4 thinking its play time, I'm averaging on 3 hours a night n that doesn't include when any of the older kids climb into my bed! Exhausted mummy!!
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  347. Our sleep goal is to get our 7.5 month old into a consistant sleep pattern, going to bed at 7pm rather than 10pm, and without numerous 'comfort suckle' wakings. A full night's sleep (for us all!) would be the ideal, but for now we'd be more than happy with a full 4 hours! In addition to this, getting her to have a nap during the day other than whilst feeding would be a huge bonus too!
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  349. I have two children, my eldest who is 4 in July sleeps in her own bed 7.30 through to 6.30. She shares a room with her 22 month old sister who regularly wakes n will not go back to sleep with a bottle of milk. I'm scared to leave her to cry as I don't like to disrupt her sisters sleep pattern. This is causing me n my husband to have little sleep every night n we both have to be up at 6.30 as I start work at 8. I know I need to break the habit and that she no longer needs the extra milk...
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  351. My goal is for my 3 month old daughter to sleep 12 hours in her cot at night without having to be fed to sleep and to have regular day naps without being fed to sleep. I would also love my 3 year old son to not argue when he is obviously tired and in need of sleep at night and not cal out for me during the night. I would also like to know the best way to stop them both sucking their thumbs before they damage their teeth.
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  352. I would love for my daughter to stay in her bed & sleep there ALL night. Not come into our bed during the night anywhere from 9.30pm onwards. That would be heaven!!! :-)
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  353. Hi Dana, my little baby will only sleep in his cot for the first four hours of the night and he is still waking every two hours for a feed at 10months old. My sleep wish for him is simply to sleep 5hour stretches between feeds and for him to stay in his cot (I don't mind him in my room but NOT my bed). Please grant my wish sleep fairy! From: Justine
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  354. My goal is for my 4 year old son to sleep through the night without waking, crying and scared that there is going to be another big shake (earthquake).
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  355. Our dream come true for our 6 months old son is for him to sleep in his own bed at 7:00pm without any fuss, fall a sleep by himself, sleep through the entire night, and wake up at 7:00am happpily!!!!
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  356. We are trying to get baby to sleep for at least 8pm to 8am, 12 hours of straight sleeping would be great for everyone. I changed the way in which we make him fall asleep, as suggested by yourself, and now at he sleeps from 8pm - 12am. He unfortunately then wakes up every few hours:(
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  357. My sleep goal for my 2 1/2yr old and 1 yr old is to have them both sleeping a good 10hrs straight a night, and staying in their own beds. At the moment i would welcome 6hrs straight in their own beds. Im allowed to dream
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  359. My Sleep Goal - as I have two little ones who have a routine and are both in bed at 7pm and fast asleep within half an hour - is that they would just sleep pasted 5am in the morning. If a was granted a sleep wish - it would be to know what it felt like to sleep even to just 8am. Wow - now wouldnt that be out of this world.
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  360. I would like my 3 year old to sleep thru the night, say about 11 hrs in his own bed. And my 1 year old to start sleeping thru the night most of the time. I just want to know I'm going to get a regular 6-8 hrs of straight sleep a night.
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  361. I would love for my 1 year old to sleep through the night. She just turned one on January 11th and still does not sleep through the night. She is still breastfed and we are just starting to introduce whole milk to her, but I plan on continuing to nurse her for another few months along with whole milk. She wakes up at least 4 times a night. She goes to sleep at 7 pm and usually starts her day around 7 am. Between 7 and midnight she will wake up at least 3 times then if I'm really lucky she will give me a 3 or 4 hour block of sleep and wake up again. She is my 3rd child and she was a better sleeper at 5 months old then she is now. I'm not ready to stop nursing but I am tired and she should be sleeping more. She takes two 30 to 40 minute naps during the day and that's it, which I would love for her to take longer naps too!!!! She is a great eater and loves pretty much all food. She eats baby food and some other food like applesauce, yogurt etc. By the way she weighs 21 lbs and is 31 1/2 inches long, so I know she is not starving at night... Please help his tired mother of 3.
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  362. A good night sleep would start without my 2 year son screaming when I leave the room, and then involve my old girls not stalling when they are asked to go to bed. On bad nights my son will be up for between 3-4 hours before resettling just before 5am. A good nights sleep would be calm and restful!
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  363. A good night sleep for me is a good night sleep for my baby. That would be the perfect wish because that is needed for both of us. Thank you Dana
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  364. I have 2 boys nearly 2 and nearly 4 years. I would like for the nearly 4 year old to stay in his bed for the night - he normally sleeps from 7:30pm till about 12:30pm then wakes up screaming and seeing things in the dark. Like very severe nightmares. Once he gets up this continues 4/5/6 times then his screaming wakes his brother who sleeps in another room!!
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  365. My sleep goal for my two babies would be that they sleep through the night for 12 hours. Isabelle is 11months old & Ava is 2&2months old. They sleep from around 8pm until 4pm then it's a struggle after that. It affects the whole family including my babies. I am emailing this at 5.25am as they are awake since 3.20am my youngest got herself into such a state that she fell out of her cot onto the floor which is a fair height to fall. She seems ok now but I was too worried to put her back into her cot. She would have had to climb to fall as her arms barely reach over the top of her cot. I don't know how she did it. Hope I get a copy of ur book as I can't afford to buy one. Thanks Dana Audrey (Dublin Ireland )
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  366. I would love for my 10week old son, Fisher, to fall asleep on his own in his own bed. I would also like for him to sleep for 5-6hrs at a time in his bed. He is currently sleeping in the swing or his car seat. I love cuddling with him and rocking him, but I do not want it to be a habit just to get him to sleep.
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  367. Up to this point we have swaddled and rocked our 6 month old to sleep for naps, bedtime and night wakings. We are only able to put him in his crib once he is sound asleep (sometimes still with a lot of crying and fussing). He has still been waking up at least two times at night, or more needing to be rocked and/or fed. My ideal sleep goal would be for him to sooth himself to sleep for naps and bedtime. He would go to bed around 7:30 pm and wake up around 7:00 am. It would be amazing if he slept right through, but it would also be ok if he did still wake up once for a quick feed, if he then put himself right back to sleep with little or no intervention from me.
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  368. I have 4 kids. 6, 4, 2 and 5 months. The older 3 go to bed about 7 and get up between 7:30-9. Nobody really wakes up at night. Occasionally my 4 year old will crawl in bed with us. But not often and goes right to sleep. My baby (5 months) was sleeping 11-12 hours at 2 months and just starting waking up once a night. I am nursing him, thinking he is hungry but now he is in a habit. How do I stop that feeding or let it happen on its own. My others all starting sleeping 12 hours around 8-12 weeks but no one every reverted back. Not sure what to do to get him back to his 12 hours. Goal is to have all 4 sleeping 7 to 8. There napping is great and everyone goes to sleep in there own beds but themselves awake. Thanks for your help! Cara
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  369. I have a long and challenging list for you Genie . . . I'd like my 5 year old to fall asleep at an appropriate time on her own with out the usual drama. I'd like my almost 3 year old to also go to sleep at an appropriate time independently and stay asleep in his own bed for the whole night. And I guess at this point it's really only a fantasy but I'd also love my 6 month old to go to sleep at a regular time and not wake up every 2 hours only to be soothed by breast feeding. And I guess if you you could accomplish all of this list maybe my husband could come back to sleeping in our room. I'm sure his back would really appreciate it, the sleeping bag just isn't cutting it anymore but he's just as desperate as I am to get some proper sleep after 5 years.
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  370. Ideally my sleep goal would be for L to go down at 7 and wake at 7, realistically though my goal at the moment is to have him go to bed at a reasonable hour i.e anytime before 8 will do and for him to wake once for a feed and to stay asleep until 6-7 am. Thankfully we are pretty much there, sometimes it's less predictable than this but most times we are on track. FOr day naps my goal would be for L to sleep longer than once sleep cycle without needing me to get him back to sleep. HE settles himself off, just wont stay asleep.
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  371. My sleep goal is to have my 6 month old to fall into her natural routine of napping and sleeping the night in her crib, and not in my bed. I don't know what I did with my oldest, but she is a champion sleeper. If only I could replicate it. Number two sleeps well if I'm on the go with her-she amazes strangers with her ability to sleep in a noisy places. To replicate this at home I use a sound machine, but only achieve success with a sleep time of 2 hours (maximum) at a stretch. I need my bed back...
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  372. My goal is to have my daughter ( 8 month old) to find her sleep rhythm and will sleep at least 12 hours through the night without yelling and crying every night. She wakes up two times every night.
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  373. I would like my two year son to sleep through the night without waking up like his 3 month old sister and for my daughter to actually sleep in her crib.
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  374. I'm a mother of two girls aged 4 & 2. My eldest is a great sleeper, my youngest however will not fall asleep without me.... And wakes up through the night crying out for me. I am absolutely exhausted as I have not had a decent nights sleep for over 2 years. We had an ynforunate streak of bad luck when our little one arrived as our house was flooded when she was just two weeks old and we moved in with my in laws whilst the house was repaired. Only problem being that all four if us slept in the sane room for 11 months. As the cot was only 0.5 meters from our bed it seems little Sofia got used to the idea that mum sleeps next to her. We have been back home for 12 months now and no matter how many things we have tried we are having no luck in changing these habits. Please help.... I am crying out of desperation for at least one continuous nights sleep!!
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  375. Our first sleep goal is to be able to put our son Elliott (he is 10 months old) in his crib while he is still awake and have him be able to fall asleep on his own. We have become masters of the dreaded 'transfer' but when it doesn't work...look out...it can take hours to get him back to sleep. Our second sleep goal is for Elliott to nap in his crib! Elliott hates to sleep, he is so afraid he is going to miss something. There is absolutely no way he will nap in his crib, but I have even tried taking a nap with him in our bed. The odd time that will work, but it is usually short lived. About the only way I can get him to nap is if I nurse him and he falls asleep on my lap. Tho that again is usually only for a short time. I guess what I am saying is we would like Elliott to be able to get to sleep on his own!!!
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    • I was just reading some of the other posts. Does a 12 sleep actually exist? I thought we were doing good when he sleeps for 8 hours without waking up.
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  376. I would like for my eight month old son to a) fall asleep independently regularly, right now it's a sometimes thing, b) sleep 8 hours. My concern with him sleeping longer is whether or not he is eating enough. My two year old slept 12 hours a night, but wasn't growing like he should. I think that left me a little gun shy to really push the sleep issue this time around.
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  377. My sleep goal is for my 3 month old to learn to link sleep cycles during nap time. I believe this would help for longer stretches at night.
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  378. I would love for my baby, 6 months old now, to sleep for at least 9 hours at night. He wakes up twice throughout the night.
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  379. A perfect night of sleep for my 2 year old would be staying asleep through the night (as opposed to what we are currently doing, which is a routine bedtime at which she goes to bed, but wakes up between 2 and 5 am and wants to be in bed with mommy & daddy)! No bueno por suenos dulces!!
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  380. I'll really appreciate to have a full night sleep after nearly 9 month since my son's birth. He tends to wake up every 1.5 or 2 hrs every night, will not get back to sleep without breast feeding and since a few days would constantly cry if I try to put him in his crib, so he shares our bed. I'll really love to have him sleep by himself from 20:00 till 06:00 be it for once only.
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  381. Oh Gosh!! I guess I want what every new mum wants - for my baby to a) move from our bed into his own, b) fall asleep independantly and c) sleep for at least a 12 hour stretch without waking (or at least 2 x 6 hr stretches). I don't mind the 2am wake up as long as he goes back to sleep but from 4am onwards it's a battle to get him to sleep. He can sometimes fall asleep on his own and if I catch him in just the right "window", he'll even go down in 10 minutes without fussing but it's very rare.
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  382. wow, sounds like a lot of genies are needed here!! My goal is to have my 2.5 year old sleep through the night. No more staying awake for 3+ hours almost each night singing and talking to himself. 11 solid hours of sleep from him would be worth the world to me at the moment.
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  383. My ultimate sleep goal would be to get 2 hours uninterupted sleep. Both of my children get up throughout the night and never at the same time and quite often as one goes down the other wakes up. I'd love for my toddler to sleep through the night and my infant to sleep for 2 hours at a time. Mommy is sooo tired!
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  384. My sleep goal is for my 1.5 yrs old toddler to be able to sleep 12 hrs each night so I can have together time with my husband and still get 8 hrs of sleep so I can be a parent to my child.
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  385. I would love for Jack to spend the whole night in his crib! He sleeps soundly from 7:30pm-1:30 am. Sometimes until 2:30 am. Then like clockwork he's up pointing for the door. He will not resettle in his crib. I'll sooth and coax him back to sleep and 5 min later, up again. This can go on for hours! So the rest of the night is in our bed. He's 12 months old and has been doing this for the last six months. The problem is that he thrashes around in our bed trying to get comfy and keeps me and my husband up! I'm back at work and exhausted. Help! Just want him to sleep a full night 7:30pm-6:30am in his crib!
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  386. If my 3 boys would go to sleep by 8pm and not wake up until 7am I would be thrilled. My eldest, 7 years old, still wants us to lay with him to fall asleep and wakes up several times a night. MY 4 year old also wants me in his room until he falls asleep and usually wakes up before 6am. My baby is sleeping pretty well through the night but he still relies on a feeding, wether its nursing or a bottle to fall asleep and most nights he gets a second wind after that feeding and is wide awake and won't sleep until 11pm. It might be too much to ask for all three to be on the same sleep routine but that would be my wish. Now where's that Genie???
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  387. Our Sleep Goal is to have our 10 month old go to sleep at 7:30 p.m. without being nursed and not wake up 2-3 times at night crying. Right now I am nursing him at least once a night. We would like him to sleep until 7:00 a.m....
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  388. i would like my child to sleep 12 hrs straight away without waking up in his own crib without nursing so that i can get a peaceful night sleep
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  389. my goal would be to first have my partner feel the same way as i do about bedtime i would first have my baby in his crib around 8 then my 12 year go to bed a bout 9 read a book till 930 and my 3 year old follow suit. and if the 9 month old wakes i would want only to lay him back down and pat his back and NO bottle to put him asleep and if my 3 yr old wokeand wandered into my room id wish to say go back to bed sweetie and she would go without crying
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  390. I would love for my 9 month old son to be able to sleep 'solidly'. He can fall asleep in his crib on his own,however, cries out frequently (even crawls around and stands up while still asleep) and continues needing night feedings (despite increasing his formula intake during the day). He will sleep in roughly 4-6 hours stretches per night. I have grown accustomed to the sleep (or lack thereof) but find it disturbing that he cannot enjoy his sleep!
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  391. My dream wish would be for my daughter to have a daily routine of two naps a day (morning and afternoon) in which I could lay her down in her crib at the same time each day and she would magically go to sleep on her own with no crying for a two hour stretch!!
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  392. I would love for my 2 1/2 yr. old son Zachary to sleep consecutively through the night without a night wakening where I have to go in and lay back down with him...and to get a good 12 hours since he no longer naps :)
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  393. I wish for my 5 month old baby girl to take naps during the day that are longer then half hour. And at night to sleep longer then 1hr or 2 at a time, that would be AMAZING!
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  394. Ideally i would love for my son to sleep in his cot through the night! If i could get 8 hours uninterrupted sleep i would be the happiest mummy ever! Also if he was able to get himself over to sleep without having to be nursed to sleep every time it would be great as after a feed it takes up to an hour to get him to sleep properly so incan put him in his cot and as he feeds eery 3-4 hours this eats into my sleep a lot!
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  395. My goal would be for my son to sleep till around 6am from going to bed at 9pm he currently wakes at 4 and has problems going back to sleep so always seems tired on a morning
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  396. My goal is to get my 9 month old put of our bed and into his crib to sleep via the night. I would also love to stop midnight nursings as I know they are only for soothing. Help me please to get more quality sleep.
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  397. My sleep goal would be for our 3 year old to go to bed with out little to no fighting. Just to give up the nightly battle and no procrastinate or cry for 30 min - 2 hours because we won't give in to her allowing her to kiss the dogs goodnight just one more time. This will make things EXTREMELY difficult when her brother arrives in June
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  398. My sleep goal would be to have my 4 yr old son and 2 1/2 yr old daughter go to bed when I ask them. We do a bed time routine which consists of pj's, brush teeth, 3 books and then goodnight. They are then in and out of bed for another hour asking for more books, asking for water, saying goodnight again, kisses. Throughout this process I'm getting more and more frustrated. I've tried being very firm and almost mean, I've tried being nice but to no avail. I just want them to go to bed the first time.
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  399. I would love it if my four and a half old son would only get up once a night instead of twice (or sometimes three times!). So two lots of 5-6 hour sleeps at night, eventually hoping for 11-12 hours straight.
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  400. My sleep goal for my 9 month old son is to sleep for 12 hours not in my bed. Right now, he wants to nurse every 3 to 4 hours and wants to be in our bed.
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  401. I would be so happy if my daughter, 15 months, would sleep without her bottle a solid 8 hours. In her crib would be nice too :) She rarely ever naps more than 30 or 45 minutes a day.. So a solid nights sleep would be great!!
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  402. my sleep goal is for my two month goal is to sleep for 4-5 hour stretches at night! it's very tiring waking up every 1.5 hours to feed him!
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  403. I have a nine month old who still wakes up twice each night. Despite getting my tubes tied after she was born, I am due to have another baby at the end of March. My goal is to have my daughter sleeping all night before I have this baby and have to start the sleepless nights all over again.
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  404. My sleep goal is to have my 7 month old baby girl to first take a bottle and then to sleep more than 1/2 hr naps during the day. At night it seems for her to settle down she needs to be nursed, I then put her down and she sleeps for only 1 hr at a time waking up every hr to be nursed. I am totally drained running on empty. I also have a 27 month old boy who I would love for him to sleep in his own bed. Looking forward to get my own bed back and my baby girl to sleep in her crib for 8-10 hrs at a time. That would be HEAVEN!!!!!! :)>
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  405. My biggest wish would be to have my 11 mth baby be content sleeping in her crib and actually sleep a consecutive 6hrs without me having to bring her into our bed and nurse her constantly thru the night..
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  410. My dream sleep goal for my 11 month old would be for him to go down at 7:30 and sleep for at least 8 hours without wanting another bottle. He usually only wants them more at night so hes waking up every 2-3 hours and the only way for me to put him back to sleep is for him to have a bottle. And his broken sleep leaves him being grumpy and clingy and sooky. Its hard to determine his moods when he has such broken sleeps. Sometimes he will go down for a nap but today he still hasnt gone down for a nap and has so much energy. Which I dont understand how beacuse we were up alot last night.
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  411. Our sleep goal is to get our 10 month old to sleep in until at least 6am and take 2 GOOD naps during the day. No matter how many different ways we try to adjust his schedule he wakes up between 4 and 5 every morning.
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  412. My sleep goal, would be 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep. He'd go to sleep without my help or other sleep aid in his crib and if he woke up he could soothe himself back to sleep peacefully.
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  413. My sleep goal is for my sweet 3 1/2 year old little girl to fall asleep without me having to sit in the rocking chair next to her bed until she falls asleep. She is entering the I'm scared of the monsters phase....waking up once or twice a night calling out for me. We use monster spray, tell happy things and my husband and I have even fought the monsters (the air) so they don't come in her room. She used to do all of this on her own, now we just need to make her feel more secure about her nighttime fears.
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  414. I would wish for my nearly 8month old to go to sleep at night and not wake for 5 or 6 hours at least instead of waking every hour or two hours and want us to resettle him and that he didn't have awake times in the middle of the night for sometimes an hour at a time and expect us to stay there with him while he was awake. Also if he only had one feed a night instead of sometimes 2 and wanting to comfort suck.
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  415. for my 3 year old twin boys to go to sleep on there own at 7.30 pm and wake at around 6.30am.,my bed is not big enough for the three of us any more.
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  417. currently my daughter has gotten into the habbit of sleeping during the day and staying awake at night. i think my husband and i share the same goal for our daughter to sleep for at least 6 hours at night. we have started her on a routine where at6pm we wake her up and play with her by using tummy time interactions telling stories and walking around the house showing her different things.by 7pm we do bath time bottle and then bed, then wake her up at 12am and give her another bottle then let her sleep till shes awake again or unless she needs burp or change.
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  418. A good night sleep for me would be to get kobi to sleep 6 to 8 hours a night and in her crib with no help from me. I just want to lay her down and she fall asleep.
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  419. My sleeping goal is for my twin boys Connor and Copelan (18months old) to be sleeping 6.30pm to 7am. We had a rough year last year in and out of hospital which has messed with routines. Finally in the last 2 weeks I have them sleeping 6.30pm to 5/5.30pm with upsets between 10pm and 12pm.
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  420. My ultimate goal is that my daughter would sleep 10-12 hrs a night at one time and would fall asleep with little to no prompting/coaxing from me or her dad.
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  421. For me good night sleep is my boy sleeping in his bed by himself without being restless and sleeps throughout the night. Waking up once during the night is ok for me.
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  422. My sleep goal / wish would be that both myself & my 14 month old twin boy & girl gets at least 8-9 hours sleep at night. We need this sleep sense program as they tag team me @ night, so when the 1 wakes up the other goes to sleep & visa versa. It goes like that every 2-3 hours which means I hardly get uninterrupted sleep. This is my goal, to put them both down to sleep @ 8/8h30pm to awake @ 5h30/6am...oh how I wish!
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  423. My sleep goal for both my boys is 12 hours a night. I have been using your program for two years and it really works. Both my boys sleep all night, and that is thanks to you and your program. I go back to it from time to time when my boys are sick or we are going on vacation, just for little reminders. I love this program and it works. Thank you for all that you have given my family. A good nights sleep.
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  424. My sleep goal is for Ruby to be sleeping from 7pm until 6am without a feed by 4 months old when I go back to work in 6 weeks.
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  425. My Sleep goal for my child is to get her to sleep in her own crib by 8:00 in the evening and to have her fall asleep on her own and not from nursing. Also I would like her to sleep a solid 8-10 hours of uninterupted sleep. This is NOT happening right now and we are very tired. YIKES!!
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  426. My sleep goal for my 15 week old baby girl is to sleep through the night with out needing a 2:30 am feed. I would like her to sleep about a 10 to 11 hour stretch at night. Currently she is sleeping about 6 hours, then waking up for a feed and then sleeping for another 5 hours. I start work in about 4 weeks and weaning her of the 2:30 am feed would be my goal/wish.
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  427. Firstly I would wish that my 2 year old daughter be able to be put to bed without me having to lie there with her until she is sound asleep, and secondly that she be able to settle herself back to sleep at night and not have to get her mum who then has to sleep with her for the remainder of the night
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  428. I would be perfectly happy if my 9 month old would sleep for six hours at night. (without waking up at all) He still wakes up at night to feed and I need to figure out how to get him to stop using me as a sleep prop.
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  429. My sleep goal would be to have at least 10 hours of undisturbed sleep. I would also love for my 5 and a half month old baby girl to fall asleep on her own at nap time and bedtime without me having to carry her on my back in a wrap. It's especially no fun having to do that when we are in the shopping center and she wants to sleep. Please let her close her eyes and just sleep?! Please genie my husband has set up his own room now cos my baby screams whenever she wakes up in the middle of the night to be nursed and he has to get up early for work. I am constantly waking up with a headache and I'm sure our neighbors are not too happy. Help... Please!
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  430. Gmy wish would be that my twin boy & girl of 14 months could stop tag teaming me on there sleeping & awake times...I hardly have any sleep! I need them to be able to be asleep by 8/8h30pm, to sleep right through till 6pm without waking for bottle or anything of the sort! I need something like sleep sense to help me get them into sync with each other & sleep together for at least 8-9 hours. They started creche & I started work, so this is my wish so we can all get a good nights rest.
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  431. good night sleep will be more than 6 hours of sleep at a time. and no more feedings every 3 hours during the night! taking care of 4 kids is draining, need better sleep at night!
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  432. I need my daughter to sleep at least 8 hours a day. I start the process of putting her to sleep at 7pm and sometimes she doest fall asleep until 1am, and then she wakes up every 3 to 4 hours crying. I am so desperate, my husband works 2 jobs and am currently in school full time we both really need a good night sleep. My daughter is going to be 1 years old in February 2012. I've tried and failed miserably to get her to sleep. I really hope am one of the chosen five. I really need help.
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  433. I have recently been awarded kinship care for.my 2 and 3 year old grangirls. They have a.hard time getting to sleep,d there parents had the.habit.of.laying I'm their.room.until they.both.fell.asleep.. This.can take up to an hour.or.more. They are extra.sensitive right now because.their.parents are not here. I would love to.work up their.being able.to fall asleep on their own. Help!
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  435. I'm lucky to have a 3 yr old sleeps 8p-7a with a 1.5hr nap 4ish days a week. I would like for our routine to be shorter and get her in bed easier. she wants a drink, potty, another book, another hug... We don't give in but it is time consuming to explain to her. I take an animal away every time I go back in and she gets 2-3 mms at breakfast if she stays in bed. This finally worked but sometimes she still gets out to read or play, turns the light on. We are over the night terrors because of this interrupted sleep. I used to find her sleeping on the floor in a pile of books. She didn't get enough rest then. I like the 11-12 hours just not the struggle to get to bed. My 17 month old is like her sister and not a peep 7-7 unless she is sick which is often with new preschool germs. She also sleeps 1.5-2 hr nap. We don't rock, feed or soothe to sleep but she has a bad thumb sucking habit.
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  436. I would love for my 14 month old daughter to go to sleep without me rocking her in our bed until 9pm every night. We start at 7pm as she has up for 5 hours but still can't get her to sleep and when we do she wakes up several times.
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  437. My Holy Grail for sleep: Daytime nap 2 hours uninterrupted with both the 12 month old and the 2.5 yr old down at the same time. They both go to bed at 7pm and it would be a DREAM if they both woke happy at 7am without any call-outs in the night. Is it possible????????????????????????????
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  438. My ideal sleep goal would be for my "little angels"to be able to fall asleep with out nonsense. example they can stay up some nights right up till 1030 at night mainly talking or screaming. I'm fed up... My girls share a room together but that doesn't mean that they have permission to have a slumber party every night. I'v tried shutting the door but they just re open it. Turning the lights off they'll just turn then back on. walk them off to bed with out giving them any form of attention.. I am being consistent it's just they are mainly my 2 year old very persistent
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