Hey everyone! My daughter is 1 1/2 and will not go to sleep lately. We are very careful to put her to bed around same time every night, we never let her sleep too late in the afternoon, and my kids don't get sugar so I know thats not the problem. When we put her to bed, she stays awake until midnight or later. My daughters share a room so this whole week my oldest has been sleeping in our bed (my husband works nights) with me. Even though she stays up this late she still wakes up in the middle of the night wanting somethng to drink and still gets up around 7 am. I have tried everything...letting her cry it out, rocking her to sleep, giving her warm milk. I am just at the end of my rope here. I am so sleep deprived and she is too. She has little bags under her eyes but still refuses to give in. I was just wondering if anyone else has this problem or delt with it before. Any suggestions would be great!!!!!!
Thanks to everyone for the advice. First off she is having a really hard time with 2 of her teeth coming in and we didn't even realize it. But, I called her doc just to ask her and the doc said it is probably a phase and if it was not better by the weekend to bring her in Monday and she will check her ears and etc. Anyways, since I am pregnant and my husband works nights, I was toally whipped so my mom took her for the night and had no problem at all putting her to bed and getting her to sleep. So tonight when I put her to bed, we did the same things as we do every night and so far we have no problem. Its almost 10pm and I have not heard a thing from her. As for the bathing suggestion....that worked for my oldest but Danielle HATES baths so we could not even think about trying to bathe her at night! She hates water and baths for some reason and screams terribly. But thank you to everyone! Its awesome that there are other moms out there to help!
Hi T.,
We still have some problems with getting our 15 month old to sleep as well, one thing that has worked is to give her a bath right before bedtime and use the Lavender soap and lotion. For some reason the herbs in that makes them relax more. Good luck.
It has been a long time since I had little ones like yours, but I recall something like that with my oldest- and it turns out he had an ear infection. He was not one of those kids that always had ear infections, and he did not display any symptoms. I was suprised that he had one. Apparently it only affected him when he tried to lie down.
So.. you might want to get her examined by the pediatrican. Other than that, are you going through the exact same bedtime routine every night. I assume at her age she is down to one nap a day. Maybe you could try starting the nap a little earlier and then not letting it go past, say 2 hours.
Good Luck- you are an expecting mother - you need your sleep!
TRy using that new bedtime bath that worked for me. I also use to ride around in the car.
T.,
Our Parents as Teachers program just had a sleep lecture last night. The speaker was Nancy Birkenmeier from St. John's. She was wonderful. She stressed that night waking at this age has to do with whether or not the child is put to asleep awake and has the ability to put themself back to sleep. she also mentioned that getting up for a drink is a habit. She stressed diluting the milk each night until it is mostly water and that generally the baby will stop getting up because they realize the reward is not what they want. She suggested going in at intervals when they won't sleep. She said go in after 3 minutes,then 3 more minutes, then 5 min, then 5 min and 10 , 10 , 10. She stressed do not pick the child up but rather pat their back and say the same words every time you go . Stay for only 30 seconds and leave promptly. She said they will cry but each night it will be less and you will have to go in to comfort and reassure less and less. It will take on average about a week to get them back on track. The number to contact her is ###-###-####. She said most insurance companies will authorize one consultation meeting with her. Good luck. I hope this helped.
P.
I'm not sure what the problem could be, is she crying most of the time till she falls asleep or is she in there playing? Maybe ask the Dr. since she is really not getting enough sleep just to rule out something medical. Sorry I wasn't much help here.
i am having the same problem just yesterday my daughter didn't go to sleep till 1:00am and i am so tired i tried asking her god father no helped i treid asking her daddy no help either so i am going to her doctor tomorrow when i found something out i will let you know soon.
