I have tried walking her, rocking her, feeding her, leaving her to cry, singing to her, putting her down half asleep, putting her down fully asleep, and all she does is scream. The neighbors hear her and think that I am abusing her. (which I am NOT) I get very little sleep and have a constant headache. There are no medical reasons for this.
2006-10-13 11:31:25 · 17 answers · asked by night1princess 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Why does she have to sleep in her crib? Why can't she sleep with you? For some reason she obviously does not like the crib and she cant talk to tell you, so let her sleep with you.
To be honest, when people say it's no good for a children to sleep in the bed, it's just talk. Your daughter is comforted by your closeness why make her unhappy by making her sleep on her own?
2006-10-13 11:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Just me 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She sounds colicy? We had the same prob with my daughter. We got a sound machine that played white noise to put next to her crib and turned it on, we told the neighbors what we were doing, and we got a loud fan for our room and a visual baby monitor and turned the sound really low... I know its really hard, she cried her head off, and I~ a grown man cried over this cuz I felt sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad, but after a week of doing this she started sleeping in her crib. We would go in and check on her to reassure her about every 15-20 mins until she fell asleep. Some sound machines have also womb noises too. I think ultimately the white noise actually help sooth her to sleep.
2006-10-13 11:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by RamsGod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put her in her crib and leave her alone. Let her cry. It is okay to let a baby cry for about ten minutes or so. They need to learn how to comfort themselves. You can check her diaper every 20 minutes if she is still crying, but you don't have to give in to her. It might take a few nights of letting her cry some, but you will both get the hang of it and be better for it.
2006-10-15 00:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by babidoozer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, my gosh..I swear that I had deja vu reading your question. My son, who is now 6, would never sleep in his crib without us putting him in asleep first. Big mistake.
My husband and I would dread bedtime because it would take us a good hour or so to get him to stay in his crib. We would just pick him up, put him back in, then he'd crawl out again(started crawling out at 8 months, by the way...).over and over until he was exhausted. He eventually learned to settle himself in, but it took weeks of him crying it out. I know our neighbors didn't appreciate it, but do you honestly believe they think you are abusing her? probably not!
With my second child I always put him in his crib awake and we never had the problem. We spoiled our first guy putting him in after I nursed him to sleep or rocked him to sleep. Babies never learn to self-soothe if they are put to bed asleep.
Some babies hate their crib. Our son started sleeping much better when he started walking (more tired..) and when he was put in a toddler bed at 18 months.
2006-10-13 11:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so, you have taken her to the Dr. correct? if there is nothing medically wrong then i would say that you have her spoiled. you have tried all the right things, now you have to be consistent. don't give up so easily, this may take days to break her of this habit, but you will as long as you stick with it. you need to have a routine. like every night around the same time give her a bath, read to her, give her a bottle and then take her to bed. do you have a radio or a CD player? turn it on and leave the room. it does not need to be loud I'm not telling you to drowned her out, I'm saying give her some soft low playing music to sooth her, and a small night light wont hurt. as i said this will take some time. but if you have a routine and you stick with it before you know it she will be sleeping beauty. good luck mom!!
2006-10-13 12:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by here to help 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, you are just going to have to keep trying and be patient. Stick with the same routine, put her in bed, tell her goodnight, make sure she has had a drink, and let her scream. Only go in the room to lay her back down and assure her. DON"T PICK HER UP. She'll get it if you don't keep changing your method. The neighbors will have to get over it!
2006-10-13 11:34:30 · answer #6 · answered by Elizabeth L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only thing I know is to do what I did...I got a rocken chair and put it buy his crib..Then some nights I rock him to sleep and put him in his crib,Other nights I would stay right there in the chair while he was in his crib and wait until he fell asleep.Good luck
2006-10-13 11:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by sweet_thing_kay04 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try putting her in her own bed, and leaving some music on in her room. Something like Nora Jones or a relaxation CD. Perhaps that will help. It may be hard but try to not go in and pick her up. She's looking for that attention and she's getting it when you give in to her.
2006-10-13 11:36:33 · answer #8 · answered by L. S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well what I did is put them in there crib tell them it is time to sleep and leave. If you have let your child sleep with you since day one you are screwed right now unless you are full force Good Luck!
2006-10-13 11:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by azjss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put her down after she goes to sleep. Its really hard I know.
2006-10-13 11:34:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋