Little Beth sleeps a good 8 to 10 hours through the night but we have let her develop a late night routine. We have tried controlled crying but it just dosent work for us or Beth.
2007-01-05 00:42:07 · 19 answers · asked by jimmy surgeon 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Try moving the routine & bedtime back 15 minutes a night (and wake time 15 min earlier.) It won't take long to get her straightened out.
Good luck!
2007-01-05 00:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by Simply_Renee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure she has enough activity in the day ( not jogging round the block- just lots of stimulation. If she gets more of this at night she'll hang about till she gets it! You must start a solid routine and remember at 5 months old she is no position to dictate to you.
Give her a bath with J & J bedtime bath or few drops lavender ess oil in her bath water, milk feed and story (yes at 5 months, they find your voice soothing) and off to bed. Controlled crying is awful, I've tried it and it's too hard unless you have a heart of stone. Unfortunately you have little choice. She will go to sleep eventually, even if she cries it out.Not nice but what else can you do. Keep her room dark when you go in and just do the pacing/crying/over the shoulder thing but don't speak. Quick cuddle, pop her back down. You may have to do this for what feels like 100 years but eventually she won't cry when you put her back down and she will learn that regardless of how vocal she is about her feelings on the matter the outcome is always the same, in the cot! As soon as you break and take her out, she'll stop crying and you realise she was fine and just wanted to come out and you have one very smug baby!
Also you must both be united in your struggle against baby tyranny and do exactly the same thing.
Lots of people who post this question have let babes stay up to avoid the night feed- so be warned-bad things may happen!!!
Good Luck!
2007-01-08 00:31:32 · answer #2 · answered by emmy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you create the same routine and conditions each night she will shift her schedule. Limit a evening nap. Do soothing things like bath, bottle, low lights then to bed. This predictable routine will tell her that it is time for bed. The first few nights will be rough. Let her cry but also let her know she is OK and you are near. If you pick her up she will know to cry to get you. Rub her back, but don't talk this will just keep her awake. Soon she will be ready for bed when you want. Many babies will change their routines around this age (sleep less... sleep more... wake up early... etc) Hang in there. She will sleep for you eventually.
2007-01-05 00:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by Mama 23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try taking either an hour or half an hour of the bed time each night. until you get to the time that suits you. Try the bath bed routine a nice bath (20 Min's) a nice warm bottle (do not let her fall a sleep on it) and then bed. also just an 1- 1half hour nap trought the day not after 3pm.
2007-01-05 08:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried to wake her up in the morning to start her routine like 15 minutes earlier each day. Then watch how long of a nap she takes during the day. Plus does she take a late nap before the night. If she does you may need to cut that nap out or trying make that nap shorter too.
2007-01-05 00:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by Tracy K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to let baby know who has the upper hand at an early age so just put her to bed at 8 like you would at midnight. She'll get the new routine once you keep inforcing the 8 oclock routine. I'm was going through the same thing with 2 yr. old daughter
2007-01-05 00:47:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
slowly adjust her sleep, start putting her down to sleep a little earlier every night using the same routine (ie bath, bottle/breast, bed)
Start waking her a little earlier in the mornings this may slowly bring her round to sleeping earlier and keep going with the controlled crying it does work honest i have gone through it with my 10 month old.
don't make drastic changes all at once, change her routine slowly.
good luck.
2007-01-05 00:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just bring her bedtime forward by about 10 minutes per night over the next few weeks. i assume yuo put her down to sleep, not just let her drop off in the living room.
2007-01-05 00:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by D B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know when her nap times are, but i would say try to ge her to stay wake in the afternoons. her lastest nap should be right after lunch if you can help it. also try giving her a nice warm bath with lavendar in her wash. try to calm her down by turning out the lights in the house and setting a quite enviorment around the house 30mins to a hour before you would like her to go down.
2007-01-05 00:48:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
start by waking her eariler--15 minutes at a time--every other day
put her to bed earlier--also 15 min every other day
No naps after 4pm (as in she should awaken from her afternoon nap no later than 4 pm)
Do you allow her caffine (it's in chocolate also) cut it out
Also red dye can make some children hyper active (my son is allergic to it) In fact there are a couple of studies that show red dye can lead to a false diagnosis of ADHD!!
2007-01-05 01:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋