Parents of bad sleepers...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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[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.

[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.

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

But they dont need 2 hours. And its a cycle because if they are sleeping 2hrs then they only can sleep X overnight without waking or waking early or in the middle of the night or needing to go to bed late which means they then have to have that 2 hour nap to get enough total sleep because they only got X overnight.

Not all kids need 2 hours in the middle of the day. Ask daycare to limit to 90 min. At 2-3 classroom limit to 60. Let them know its not late bedtime or early wakeups but that they are waking in the middle of the night which isnt tenable. Let them know if it was a super late bedtime or just waking at 530, you wouldnt ask for the decrease.