How to get my daughter to fall asleep and stay asleep.?
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at
2:05 am
My soon to be 18 month old daughter has been having a really hard time falling asleep and when she actually does fall asleep, she won’t stay asleep. I think it might have something to do with our room because she’ll fall asleep anywhere else but in our room. I don’t know what to do anymore. I need some advice.
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Is she co-sleeping with you? I ask because you said "our room" If so, perhaps she is ready for her own bedroom/sleep space. It could be that your movements are waking her and she is a light sleeper.
keep her up late or pills!
Watch movies together or you ccan give her some kind of sleeping medication for children.
put some whiskey in her milk should send her off or try medised for children that also helps
run the piss and vinegar out of her during the day. She may need more exercise (and good luck with trying to wear out your 18 month old!).
Maybe "our room" is the problem. Have you tried putting her in her own room?
try giving her a glass of warm milk, or letting her fall asleep somewhere else and move her to ur room. rocking always knocked my little ones out! lol!
1) Chloroform
2) A hammer.
Try staying in her room until she falls asleep. What my mum used to do was sit on a pillow until we fell asleep – i dont know why but I didnt like being alone. Every day she would move the pillow she sat on a little further away from my crib and until she got outside the room and then down the stairs. If I woke up she would talk to me but not hold up a conversation – like ‘go back to sleep darling’. I think it was her voice that was comforting.
Try it it may work
Hope it helps
I think a cup of warm milk and maybe her own room would help. Or maybe get into a routine of reading a book or singing her a song while she is laying down in her bed before she goes to sleep.
Stop giving her naps, keep putting her in the proper room to go to sleep and have patience. Some kids just have a really hard time adjusting to the surge of energy they get once they’re up and walking around. It’ll settle down in a few months, but it’ll take time and patience.
Also, the best thing to settle a rambunctious child is to get her on a set routine. Give her a light snack at about 6 or 7pm and allow her to watch one show she likes. Something not too energetic, but soothing. Keep the lights low and let her wind down playing, watching her show and eating her snack for an hour or two. Next, make it a ritual where you give her a bath, get her snuggled in comfy pajamas and then put her in bed to read to her. Do two or three stories, put on a night light if she needs it and play some soft music (classical is great, but up to preferences) and sing her a song or talk to her in a low voice until she drifts off. If you can do all of this, it might be enough to make her look forward to going to sleep in the proper room and might prevent her from fighting to stay awake so much. Basically, using any kind of schedule will help your daughter get in the habit of going to bed when she should as long as you’re firm and don’t deviate too much from it. Pick what works for you and stick with it.
Good luck.