Hi I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice! I have a 2 year old little gilr and she is fantastic, she has slept through the night since the day she was born. For the past week or so she has been going to bed and falling asleep if me or daddy sits and holds her hand but then she wakes up everynight at about 11- 11:30 and will not go back to sleep in her own bed. She starts screaming and throwing herself around, chucking herslef on the floor, banging her head on the wall.
She has a pretty normal betime routine as in bath, story cuddles with mummy/daddy, bed!
She doesnt sleep through the day because if she does she wil not go to sleep untill about 11 pm!
I have tried the tough love thing by walking away and letting her cry but she just comes out of her bedroom and climbs into my bed or stands at the top of the stairs shaking the babygate and whailing! I am frightened that one day she is going to seriously hurt herself!!!
Please someone help me or give some different advice apart from walk away and let her cry cos it doesnt work!
put her to bed the reg time. the first time she gets out of bed tell her it is bedtime and walk her back to the bed. the next time she gets up take her back to bed without saying anything. every time she gets up keep putting her back to bed. do not talkk to her after the 1st time. she will get the idea you mean what you say. tha more you rock or coddle or put up with the nonsense and then place her into your bed she will realize, hey if I do thhis I wil get my way. best wishes
Hi lisalost...unfortunately there is no easy solution to this, she obviously wakes, all is quiet and she gets a little frightened, realizing that you are not there.
Does she have a night light ? that can work wonders.
When she crys you are going to have to continually go to her, get her out of bed, give her a cuddle,check she's dry and doesn't need a drink, maybe read her a story, until she is calm enough to be put back to bed.....don't take her into your room, which i imagine is what you do and of course is what she now expects.If she comes in go through the routine, take her back to her room cuddle her, sing to her or put on some quiet music or tell her a story she likes and put her back...don't do any of this in your room, has to be hers.
This will be hard and very tedious but will be worth it in the end when she will realize that she will not be getting into your bed.....it will work but you will have to be very strong, especially if your tired, it will seem so much easier to just give in....don't....you'll have to start right from the beginning again.
i have been there i am still there actually me and my husband deal with this every night i didn't keep putting my 2 year old son in his bed and now 3-4 hours of him being a sleep he is on our bed and sleeps right between us if you don't want to sleep like that for ever there is one other way other than letting her lay there and screaming lay in her bed with her and wait till she is fast asleep and then go back to your room i wish i would of done it earlier once they get used to sleeping with you there is no braking it good luck
my almost 3 yr old is still sleeping with us! i have heard all of this advice that everyone else is giving you but honetly im like you. i dont think any of it works. what i think you should try ( & wut i have tried) is puttin her bed in your room. lay next to her on the floor & maybe rub her back or sing to her until you know shes asleep. you then go to bed. get a nite light so when she wakes up in the middle of the nite she will see you & know she is safe. if she continues to wine & wants in your bed, try rubbin her back to sleep. this should work. it will get tiring but you have to do wut works.. right?
Hi I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice! I have a 2 year old little gilr and she is fantastic, she has slept through the night since the day she was born. For the past week or so she has been going to bed and falling asleep if me or daddy sits and holds her hand but then she wakes up everynight at about 11- 11:30 and will not go back to sleep in her own bed. She starts screaming and throwing herself around, chucking herslef on the floor, banging her head on the wall.
She has a pretty normal betime routine as in bath, story cuddles with mummy/daddy, bed!
She doesnt sleep through the day because if she does she wil not go to sleep untill about 11 pm!
I have tried the tough love thing by walking away and letting her cry but she just comes out of her bedroom and climbs into my bed or stands at the top of the stairs shaking the babygate and whailing! I am frightened that one day she is going to seriously hurt herself!!!
Please someone help me or give some different advice apart from walk away and let her cry cos it doesnt work!
Mine does the same thing more or less. she is 2 years old. i video taped it on my camera..she throws herself on her bed, bangs her head on the bed..laughing out loud..it takes about 2 hours for her to go back to sleep..i look into her face..her eyes are open, but like in a trance state...as if she is asleep, but yet awake..i think she is doing something similar to sleep walking, in her crib anyway..its strange, she does it every night, just started doing it 1 month ago..during the day time, everything is fine. its only in her crib, at about 4am...when she sleeps with us, she makes it through the entire night, so i am going to get rid of the crib and put her on a bed near mine on the floor and see if that helps..sounds like same thing though, i am thinking she is sleep walking, without the walking around part.
My wife and I just put her bed in our room at first. You know across the room or whatever and convinced her it was ok and if she needed anything we was right there and it worked. Well we just recently moved to a bigger place with TWO bedrooms. So good o daddy has been movin her bed about 5 to 10 feet out of the room each night. So good so far I'm up to 30 feet. Almost to her room. She sleeps there all night. Well sometimes she has bad dreams I guess and comes in there and I will let her fall back to sleep put her back and kiss her on the forehead and go back to bed. This really seems to be working for us. I love my daughter sleeping with us since I work a late 2nd shift and I dont get to see her often but the wife dont and I know all couples need alone time and I love my daughter so thats why we came up with the slow but steady 10 feet plan. Hope this either helps or works.
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