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sleep training.....help!

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 30 June 2011 - 08:54

My 8 month old is incredibly stubborn when it comes to day naps and I got myself into a bad habit by rocking her to sleep. I have been advised that I need to do sleep training but have also been told of a couple of different methods of this. I was just wondering what you had done and whether it had worked. She is fine at night and is put in her cot awake and she will get herself to sleep and then sleep pretty much most of the night but during the day she is turning into a real madam. I also have a 3 year old which is another of my worries as I am trying to do this with her while he is downstairs playing on his own. Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated :)

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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 02 July 2011 - 19:20
That's great news! Hope it carries on! It makes such a difference to your lives, it really does. When I think back to how awful things seemed when I'd be sitting in the lounge totally on edge waiting for DS to wake up, or pacing the room with him in my arms running out of breath shushing him, I can't believe how different my life is now. Heaven.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 02 July 2011 - 14:25
DubaiCat, I read what you put on the other post re. sleep training and have been doing that for the last couple of days. Have just been to put her for a nap now and within 30 seconds she was asleep :) so thank you....lets hope it continues!
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 30 June 2011 - 23:55
How much is she sleeping during the day - do you think it's enough? And is she going down for a nap when she's still happy but ready to sleep, or cranky and overtired? If I miss that golden time when DS is ready for a nap but not overtired, still happy but yawning, then it's much harder for him to get to sleep. We started working on his night-time sleep first as he was a complete nightmare, then we moved onto daytimes and it only took one small struggle and he was sorted. We sat with him and patted him, same as we did for night-time naps, and reassured him until he fell asleep. I don't know what method that is but as long as we didn't pick him up we could do anything else to help him get to sleep. I think we did most of the hard work when we addressed night-times as it only took that one day of grizzles for about 5-10 minutes and that was that. From then on he went down no problem. This was at 7 or 8 months, so similar to your DD :). He was having three naps a day at this age - an hour and a half in the morning (no more than an hour and a half after he got up), an hour and a half at lunchtime and 45 minutes to an hour in the late afternoon.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 30 June 2011 - 11:21
My health visitor told me that as long as night-time is sorted, there's no need to worry about day-time naps because the children shift and drop them anyway. Your baby obviously knows how to fall asleep on her own (as proved at night) so maybe the daytime naps just aren't at the right time for her any more and she's actually not sleepy. maybe she wants to drop a nap... If she doesn't want to nap, get her back up and let her play for another 30 mins or an hour and then try again.
 
 

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