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Jacob, who is 14 1/2 months old, is still waking up in the middle of the night. He goes to bed around 8pm after taking a bath and getting a bottle. Lets say that around 10:30 or 11 he wakes up. I help him find his bottle or pacifier and then he goes back to sleep. Around 1 he wakes up again, and we give him another bottle or help him find the pacy and then he might wake up around 6 or 6:30 and he's up for the morning. He never stays up for more the 5 or then 10 minutes. But I wanted to know if other moms are going through this. Is there any solutions anyone can give that might help me get Jacob to sleep completely through the night?
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| Posted by Eva on 10/16/2008 11:06 AM
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Is he napping good during the day time? I read somewhere that toddlers who don't get enough nap time (2-3 hours) during the day time, tend to become sleep deprived at nite.
Sounded crazy but when i found out from my daycare provider that he was only getting less than an hour nap time everyday, i knew that was a problem. If he refuses to fall asleep for that long, increase nap times to 2 times a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
hope this was helpful. |
| posted by hoot on 10/16/2008 12:29 PM
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Is he napping good during the day time? I read somewhere that toddlers who don't get enough nap time (2-3 hours) during the day time, tend to become sleep deprived at nite.
Sounded crazy but when i found out from my daycare provider that he was only getting less than an hour nap time everyday, i knew that was a problem. If he refuses to fall asleep for that long, increase nap times to 2 times a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
hope this was helpful. |
| posted by hoot on 10/16/2008 12:29 PM
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| My son is 17 months old and wakes up at least once every night. It is VERY frustrating! He still drinks bottles during the night too. |
| posted by on 10/16/2008 01:11 PM
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| The thing is, Jacob is with the daycare provider during the day so I don't really know how much sleep he is getting there. I'll ask her tonight when I recieve him. When we are home on the weekends, lately he's been having 1 nap because I thought that was best. But now I'll put him back on 2 naps a day. |
| posted by Eva on 10/16/2008 02:19 PM
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Yeah it's real important to stress that he needs to get in his naps to your daycare provider.
I knew that my son wasn't at all comfortable at our ex-sitters place, that's why he wasn't napping. So i had to change sitters because of that and other issues.
Now, he's in a more better place, naps almost twice a day sometimes and is sleeping all the way through the nite.
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| posted by hoot on 10/16/2008 02:54 PM
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| I found my son hated staying asleep at night but finally I had to break down and slowly force him to sleep all night. I know it sounds awfull but its not. I first started in baby steps. The first time he wakes crying I would walk outside and stay for 15 minutes. I let him cry himself back to sleep. The second time I would go back and rock him to sleep but no midnight bottles (this gives them a reason to keep waking up and you are having to reverse a routine that he has built up). I would start for a week or two by skipping every other time he woke up I would go to him. Then I went to every third time. Then not at all. This worked for him Now it is maybe once or twice a month that he may wake crying in the middle of the night and is is 19 months old. It didnt hurt him, just me. Also I do notice that days he doesnt nap well are the worst nights. |
| posted by Lori on 10/18/2008 10:47 PM
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