1 1/2 yr antiquated won't sleep short us...serve?
Our 18 month old has never slept on her own. We used to get her to sleep while within our arms and lay her down in the crib. When she'd wake, we'd bring her into our bed.
Recently, we opened her crib to a toddler bed and layed a mattress on the floor subsequent to her for one of us. We read a book then lay her in the crib. She will lay there and leak asleep on her own but not if she hears (or thinks) you have gotten up and left. If she wake and you are there, she goes back to sleep. If she wake and you are not there, she screams and cries for us ("mamamamama, dadadadadad").
For 3 days, we tried the Ferber method. We failed because she be getting so scared, she would shake. We could not put her through that any longer.
It would be OK if she slept on a mattress in our bedroom. THE PROBLEM, is that she requires us to be there to shift to sleep. So even if she slept on the mattress, we would have to lay there until she fell asleep, then sneak out.
It is sturdy on us because we are both working parents and she goes down at 8:00pm (we are usually up until 11:30pm).
Do you have suggestions?
Do you know of websites / forums where I can discuss this beside other parents or professionals?
My 2 yr old will do like peas in a pod thing is it is dark in the room. Try have something a little more then just a hours of darkness light, like maybe a kerosene lamp on the dresser, and lots of stuffed animals in her bed.
Why are YOU allowing a 1.5 year old tell you what to do?
YOU are the boss - NOT her!
Make sure her room is comfortable to her, play some stillness soothing music and let her cry. When she screams...(she does this for attention because she knows when she does it - YOU will come running...) in recent times ignore her. Once she realizes you are NOT coming to her rescue - she will stop.
Answers: try turning on a music box in her room or some white noise (a fan or humidifier) the girl i used to babysit have a similar problem, we just made sure she was fast asleep up to that time leaving and had a fan to save her from hearing us outside her room.
eventually, when she was around 2yrs we got her to start falling asleep on her own and very soon it's not a problem at all. it'll take time, but eventually she'll realize that just because you're not contained by the room, it doesn't mean you're gone forever.
We have a wonderful book that I think is the best.
"The Sleep Easy Solution" by Jennifer Waldburger and Jill Spivack
They also enjoy a corresponding website:
sleepyplanet.com
I hope this helps.
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Recently, we opened her crib to a toddler bed and layed a mattress on the floor subsequent to her for one of us. We read a book then lay her in the crib. She will lay there and leak asleep on her own but not if she hears (or thinks) you have gotten up and left. If she wake and you are there, she goes back to sleep. If she wake and you are not there, she screams and cries for us ("mamamamama, dadadadadad").
For 3 days, we tried the Ferber method. We failed because she be getting so scared, she would shake. We could not put her through that any longer.
It would be OK if she slept on a mattress in our bedroom. THE PROBLEM, is that she requires us to be there to shift to sleep. So even if she slept on the mattress, we would have to lay there until she fell asleep, then sneak out.
It is sturdy on us because we are both working parents and she goes down at 8:00pm (we are usually up until 11:30pm).
Do you have suggestions?
Do you know of websites / forums where I can discuss this beside other parents or professionals?
My 2 yr old will do like peas in a pod thing is it is dark in the room. Try have something a little more then just a hours of darkness light, like maybe a kerosene lamp on the dresser, and lots of stuffed animals in her bed.
Why are YOU allowing a 1.5 year old tell you what to do?
YOU are the boss - NOT her!
Make sure her room is comfortable to her, play some stillness soothing music and let her cry. When she screams...(she does this for attention because she knows when she does it - YOU will come running...) in recent times ignore her. Once she realizes you are NOT coming to her rescue - she will stop.
Answers: try turning on a music box in her room or some white noise (a fan or humidifier) the girl i used to babysit have a similar problem, we just made sure she was fast asleep up to that time leaving and had a fan to save her from hearing us outside her room.
eventually, when she was around 2yrs we got her to start falling asleep on her own and very soon it's not a problem at all. it'll take time, but eventually she'll realize that just because you're not contained by the room, it doesn't mean you're gone forever.
We have a wonderful book that I think is the best.
"The Sleep Easy Solution" by Jennifer Waldburger and Jill Spivack
They also enjoy a corresponding website:
sleepyplanet.com
I hope this helps.
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