Getting Your Child to Sleep Through the Night

I used to have the answer for this because my son was awesome and started sleeping through the night between 2-4 months. I gave him a bath every night before bed, and then made him lay in bed at night to fall asleep on his own. Then my darling insomniac daughter was born and threw everything I thought I knew out the window. She is almost one and half now and still doesn't always sleep through the night! I have tried everything with her. Her doctor said we should just let her scream all night, but after two or three weeks of that we gave up. Good luck! Wish I had a better answer for you!

Nothing! they will sleep through the night when they are ready and I mean really what is sleeping through the night my girls are 2 and 4 and "slept through" from 9 weeks in that they fell asleep aound 9pm and didnt wake until 7am, but even now i often get woken by one or the other wanting something a drink or the toilet or just a quick cuddle i mean do children ever really sleep through lol! But really (requests for the toilet and drinks withstanding) sleeping through will happen in time when the child is ready

I still don't sleep through the night *lol* and I'm 30+ . Why is it so important that he/she sleeps through the night? Is he/she awake for hours or does he/she just wake up? Infants are not ment to sleep alone just like almost every animal mainly mothers sleeps with their babies, humans are not different. My children have slept since they was born - they have eaten during the night, but since we've been co sleeping and they were breatfed it wasn't any problem at all. I would say that growing older will get him/her to sleep better ;-)

My first child was one that woke up all through the night so my mother-inlaw said to give him some cereal at night. I did this when my son was 2mths old and he slept through the night. I just made it real runny so he could get it down. When my second child came along I waited till he was 2mths and did the same with him. He also started sleeping all night. Best of luck to you.

My son was a great sleeper and still is. He knows when he's tired and crashes out many nights with out being told to head to bed. Now my " I hate sleep" daughter on the other hand, there isn't anything I can do to get her to go down until she's ready. Rocking, laying with her, or letting her cry it out. All of those methods are pointless to her. We start every night at the same time putting her down and it's still 1, 2, or 3 am before she will go down, and she's back up with in 2 and half hours to 3 hours after she goes to bed. She doesn't take much of a nap in the day either, she just doesn't require that much sleep... She's just like the new technology, she can charge her battery in the two hours, instead of back in the day where it took you over night to charge batteries, lol.

We used baby steps with both of our children. We put him down and let him cry for 5 minutes. If he was still crying, I would go pick him up and soothe him, then lay him back down. Each time you lay the baby back down, you let him cry a little longer. If he cries more than 15 minutes, something is probably wrong. You'll have to figure out if he is hungry or poopy or sick and go from there. Any time my children cried more than 15 minutes it was because something was wrong. Once I fixed it, no problems sleeping.

The only thing that worked with my son was letting him get older. Eventually he started sleeping all night, but we never thought it was going to happen. He had a lot of ear infection as a baby, and that got him in the habit of waking in the night. I went through periods of him waking up every morning at 3:00 a.m. Then, when he started being able to get out of his crib, he'd get into things while we were sleeping. As a result, we slept with him between us in our bed until he was two. Finally, though, he got old enough to sleep through the night. It seemed like we'd never get to sleep an entire night again for awhile, but now he's 26 years old and living out of state, and we wish he was still little enough to wake us in the night.

I tought my chldren the difference between night and day by turning the lights off in the house when it is time for bed. Babies don't sleep all the way through the night they wake up during the night to eat but they will fall asleep when they get their milk. Sometimes them just knowing that their mother is next to them will allow them to sleep without fussing through the night.

the only thing that i have heard of getting an infant to sleep at night is schedule,schedule,schedule!! cause then they get into the routine of knowing what time they have to go to bed.