Whats the best way to get my daughter to sleep through the night?

Question

She is 8 months old.

Answer 1

Definitely start with a routine now. It will save you a lot of grief when she is sleeping in a toddler bed.

Also, the full tummy, clean diaper, and we instituted a no sleeping between 5pm and 8pm rule for our daughter because it seemed like she would always fall asleep around 6:30 and then wake up at 11pm. So we would try whatever stimulation we could to keep her awake.

Have a pretty enriching playtime right before feeding. This will offer a lot of stimulation and result in mental fatigue.

Answer 2

although it is hard the best way that i know is to put them to bed and let them cry it out.
then if she wakes up through the night then do what you normally would after a couple of nights you should see her sleeping a little longer and longer. it is very stressful at the time and hard to listen to your baby cry but i found this to be the best and only thing that works

Answer 3

Start with a routine. Our 8mo old does a bath, then nurses, then I sing him a song as we walk up to bed. I always put him to bed awake. If you don't then your baby won't know how to soothe himself when he wakes up in the middle of the night (as part of the natural sleep cycle) We use a noise maker to put white noise in the background...sounds like the womb and drowns out noises in the house. If he wakes up in the middle of the night, try to give him a pacifier or rub him back a bit to get him to fall back asleep. Keep the room quiet to remind him that its sleep time. I personally don't believe in letting them cry it out, but to each his own.

Answer 4

100 years ago the answer was a shot of whiskey. My, have we really come that far? Well, not a shot as measured, but a speck: enough to put the li'l tyke to sleep. What I did was walk back and forth, singing to her. It let my wife sleep and I have enough goofy songs to keep myself entertained. And my daughter thinks "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is funny.

Answer 5

Does she have a full tummy when she goes to bed? If you don't your should nurse her, or give her a bottle right before bed, in a dimly lit room to relax her, try setting up a bedtime routine like giving her a bath, reading to her, nursing/or bottle feeding and then laying her down. Good Luck.

Answer 6

Put some cereal in that bottle like a couple teaspoons. Or she is old enough to replace that evening meal with cereal instead. Well with a little formula.

Answer 7

Stop responding to her when she wakes in the night. Any response, positive or negative, reinforces the behaviour you want to stop. When you put her to bed, leave the room, close the door, and DON'T GO BACK TILL MORNING. Her crying will hurt you more than her. It is the ONLY way to help her break her undesirable habit.

Answer 8

a warm bath before last bottle,a little play time,last bottle,and lastly try putting a radio in her room with some soft music,this will help a lot,especially if she listens to the same music you listen to but not loud.