Parents of bad sleepers...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When did they really, reliably start sleeping through? Yes, we sleep trained and they fall asleep independently at bedtime. No, it didn't make much of a difference. DC is 18 months old and wakes up crying/will not stop until attended to multiple nights a week. We are not infrequently up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Naps at daycare which may be an issue, thus the late bedtime.

I'm so tired.

Have you tried upping the amount of real food you’re giving baby? We had a similar issue and I realized that baby was not getting enough calories during the day. Once I made sure to offer food more often (price much every hour or so) he started waking less often. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would consider hiring a sleep specialist. I don’t want to tell you how old my child was when she started consistently sleeping thru the night and it is a big regret to me that we did not get professional help. We were so tired for so long!

(Assuming baby is not hungry and Dr has checked ears and tonsils.).

+1

It's time to bring in the professionals. Yes, there exist children who are bad sleepers and there's nothing you can do, but they are like <1% of the population and you don't declare that to be your kid without trying a professional first.

I'd love to know who you define as a sleep professional because many quote unquote sleep trainers get a certification off of the web and have no real certifications. What OP really needs to do is have her primary or ENT order a sleep study where they can actually see if sleep apnea is a problem.

The other option would be to ask your daycare to wake up at 2:00 or 2:30 after a one hour to 90 minute nap but at 11 hours total your kid is on the normal spectrum of sleep needs it's just on the lower end.

Board certified pediatric sleep medicine doctors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would consider hiring a sleep specialist. I don’t want to tell you how old my child was when she started consistently sleeping thru the night and it is a big regret to me that we did not get professional help. We were so tired for so long!

(Assuming baby is not hungry and Dr has checked ears and tonsils.).

+1

It's time to bring in the professionals. Yes, there exist children who are bad sleepers and there's nothing you can do, but they are like <1% of the population and you don't declare that to be your kid without trying a professional first.

I'd love to know who you define as a sleep professional because many quote unquote sleep trainers get a certification off of the web and have no real certifications. What OP really needs to do is have her primary or ENT order a sleep study where they can actually see if sleep apnea is a problem.

The other option would be to ask your daycare to wake up at 2:00 or 2:30 after a one hour to 90 minute nap but at 11 hours total your kid is on the normal spectrum of sleep needs it's just on the lower end.

Board certified pediatric sleep medicine doctors

Who will do a sleep study... literally there is no diagnosis- or treatment- they can provide without a sleep study.

[Anonymous]

You have to do extinction

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son didn't sleep through the night until my daughter was born, and they shared a room. He was 2 yrs 4 months old. In the words he had then, he told me he saw her before he was born and was waiting for her.

This is so sweet. I love when kids remember heaven and past lives. Fascinating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have two bad sleepers. They both started to sleep better 1 month after I fully weaned. So, 18 and 13 months.

Never fear, they are in HS now and can sleep until 11.

+1 Sadly, I, in my late 40s, am now the one who can’t sleep through the night.

So true

- 50

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to do extinction

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When did they really, reliably start sleeping through? Yes, we sleep trained and they fall asleep independently at bedtime. No, it didn't make much of a difference. DC is 18 months old and wakes up crying/will not stop until attended to multiple nights a week. We are not infrequently up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Naps at daycare which may be an issue, thus the late bedtime.

I'm so tired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When did they really, reliably start sleeping through? Yes, we sleep trained and they fall asleep independently at bedtime. No, it didn't make much of a difference. DC is 18 months old and wakes up crying/will not stop until attended to multiple nights a week. We are not infrequently up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Naps at daycare which may be an issue, thus the late bedtime.

I'm so tired.

Have you tried upping the amount of real food you’re giving baby? We had a similar issue and I realized that baby was not getting enough calories during the day. Once I made sure to offer food more often (price much every hour or so) he started waking less often. Good luck!

This whole thread is bloody dystopian. You probably meant "Rice Mush" instead of price much.
This is poison for their little organs and digestive system...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When did they really, reliably start sleeping through? Yes, we sleep trained and they fall asleep independently at bedtime. No, it didn't make much of a difference. DC is 18 months old and wakes up crying/will not stop until attended to multiple nights a week. We are not infrequently up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Naps at daycare which may be an issue, thus the late bedtime.

I'm so tired.

Have you tried upping the amount of real food you’re giving baby? We had a similar issue and I realized that baby was not getting enough calories during the day. Once I made sure to offer food more often (price much every hour or so) he started waking less often. Good luck!

This whole thread is bloody dystopian. You probably meant "Rice Mush" instead of price much.
This is poison for their little organs and digestive system...

Calm down. I’m sure the typo was meant to be “pretty much” not rice mush. I’m not seeing anything dystopian on the thread.

[Anonymous]

My honest answer is that DS didn’t reliably sleep through the night or fall asleep easily at bedtime until kindergarten when he stopped napping/resting at school. You could get more aggressive about letting him cry it out during night wake ups and see if that helps, but I know it’s hard. I think I bought every book/online guide that promised to help and it was a total crapshoot. Sorry, this is the worst part of parenting.

[Anonymous]

5 years old here too - once kindergarten started. Now almost ten and still wakes up maybe once every two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When did they really, reliably start sleeping through? Yes, we sleep trained and they fall asleep independently at bedtime. No, it didn't make much of a difference. DC is 18 months old and wakes up crying/will not stop until attended to multiple nights a week. We are not infrequently up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Naps at daycare which may be an issue, thus the late bedtime.

I'm so tired.

An 18 month old needs a nap, so stop blaming that for the sleep problems.

[Anonymous]

My terrible sleeper got better when they dropped their nap, which was young (before 3). I had another kid who was much easier. We found out later my terrible sleeper had apparently not outgrown their infant reflux and had issues with reflux so bad they it caused coughing and vomiting in their sleep. I am sure that affected their sleep as a toddler and I’m very glad we weren’t any harder on them.

[Anonymous]

Stop the nap.