any ideas on gettin a 20month old little girl to sleep straight thru?

Question

she wakes up for juice wev tried givin her weetabix before bed but dont help and she hates warm milk

Answer 1

my daughter is 6 months and has slept through as soon as her weight picked up (she was prem) at about 8 weeks old. every night her daddy baths her and puts her pj's on before he goes to work and then i feed her a warm bottle of milk in her bedroom in the dark with no talking and this can sometimes be as little as 2-3 hours after her tea and i lay her down with her 'blankie' and sometimes she will go off on her own.Sometimes she has a cry so i just go up and put her dummy in and leave the room, still no talking.
and she is ok.i would steer well clear of jiuce like soemone said its not good for teeth but not only that but juice makes many children very hyper. it will take a lot of perseverence but you need to get it done now really before she gets in a big bed or she will be getting in bed with you and that habit will never be one to easily change.good luck

Answer 2

There are so many variables to this. Are you B.F. still? Does she eat enough at dinner? Is this something you gave to her to calm her down when she did wake up during the night and has become "routine". Your question is very vague and is hard to answer. I have a 12 month old girl who has been sleeping 12 hours straight through the night since 8 weeks old. I admit it's very rare but once she made it through the night and if she did wake up (very, very rare) I never soothed her with a bottle. The only suggestion I can give to you is stand your ground or else you will NEVER get a decent night's rest. Cut the midnight or early morning bottle OUT COMPLETELY. Especially juice. That's the worst thing you can give a toddler during the night. Not to mention the surgar keeping them up but the surgar that will rot their teeth. If she cries for a bottle at night and is standing up, give her a kiss and a hug then put her down immediately. Try not to make a big deal about it. You will more than likely have to repeat this a number of times during the week and night (or two week period) to break this "routine" she had pulled you into. And if you find that it's not working soothe her - rock her, sing to her, stroke her. But whatever you do do not give her a bottle. They will eventually fall asleep. This to me sounds like a routine that she's has going here and it's up to you to break it. Good luck. I hope that helped a bit.

Answer 3

I am a single mother of a 15 month old who has to get up EVERY morning to get to work early, so we had to cut out the "waking up in the middle of the night crap" ASAP. I had researched this thoroughly, and your doctor will tell you that toddlers don't need food while they are sleeping anymore than we do. SO I started slowly phasing out the milk and in with the water. SHe wasn't really liking the water too much, she would drink a little and put it down, instead of drinking it all (like she did with the milk). Eventually she just stopped waking up altogether. Now we both get to sleep through the night. Giving them something they aren't happy with just helps them give up the pesky habit. Try the warm milk. :)

Answer 4

I wouldn't give her juice if she wake up asking for it. Make sure she has a good dinner and enough to drink before bedtime so you know if she wake up asking for juice she's not thirsy unless she's sick and it's hot. But if it's an ongoing thing she's just playing you. Try rice cereal or cream of rice at dinner, I heard rice before bed help you have a good night's sleep. Make sure she's not eating cheese or sugar before bed.....cheese keep you up......so I've heard. If nothing works just give her more time, mine didn't sleep though the night until after she turned two. I don't believe in letting them cry themselves to sleep. Hugs and kisses, say good night and leave the room. Goodluck!!!

Answer 5

could be that shes just used to waking up and having a drink and not that she is actually hungry or thirsty, try giving her just water, its not as nice tasting as juice and she probably wont like it and will cry for the juice but if you can persevere with it a few nights maybe a week or 2 then she will probably not wake up , second option is to ignore her cries for it completely, could go in a just comfort her back to sleep tuck her in again , sing a lullaby etc, my kids used to do this and i found giving water only and then not a drink at all and soothing them back to sleep again worked

good luck :)

Answer 6

If someone gave me a nice drink in the night I might be tempted. Stop juice during the night straight away(unless she is ill) this will be another problem when you try to toilet train her. Do what supernanny advises cause it works, do not talk to her when she gets up, just take her straight back to bed..saying nothing. Do it all night if you need to. Stick with it eventually she will get it.

Answer 7

My little boy is nearly 3 years old and only just started sleeping through so I started taking him swimming a few times a week to tire him out and it can be a little expensive but it really does work as it is a good exercise for them too.

Answer 8

when my little boy wouldnt go to sleep, i made sure he didnthave a nap during the day and when he went to bed he had a bottle of juice incase he needed it. for a few nights he woke up but everything he needed was there and after a week he started just to sleep all the way through. and try not to take her out of the bed once they are out i found they thought it was time to stay up all night. hope this helps!!!!!

Answer 9

My little boy wouldnt sleep through until he went into a "big bed". We'd tryed everything , and then one day i thought to put him in a single bed and it works, he even gets in his own bed when he's tired. You say "Do you want to go to bed?" and he goes running to his bedroom, picks up his favourite bear and getss in bed. He's been doing this since he was 18 months now, hes nearly 20 month.

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Answer 10

Try checking with a compass and make sure she's sleeping with head either back to east or north and legs pointing to west and south. These sleeping position is best suggested. Something to do with magnetic flow. Hope this help