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multipurpose

DATE: 11/05/03 10:15pm

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Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

IN REPLY TO: Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!
AUTHOR: Hollis's Mommy

This is going to be a very hard emotional exprience. Getting a child to learn to go to sleep by themselves takes patience on your be half and yes you will have some crying. For my son I had to get him to learn to sleep on his own at 13 months because my husband and I were going away for a few days. My Mom watched him and we didn't think it would be fair to have a hard to impossible child to put to sleep.

My suggestion is to start with the milk issue first. Get him in the habbit of understanding that milk in the night does not happen. I have heard of a few ways to do this.
1. Replace milk with water. Don't ever give him milk again at night. But unfortunatly he will probably get mad and it will take a long time to get him back to sleep.
2. This is what I did after #1 didn't go so well. Don't go in at all in the night. Yes for at least 4 nights I sat on the couch and cried myself, but you always have to look at the bigger picture and remember your gaol.

After the milk issue is solved (count on this taking you at least 1week maybe even 2)you can now try to get hom to learn to go to sleep by himself.
I started with night time becasue he was more tired and I believed he would go to sleep a little bit faster.
This is what happended to me:
NIGHT 1- Regular bedtime habbits, but no milk right before bed at least 1/2hr before
He cried for at least 1hr. This was the absolute most horrible thing. I had to leave so I couldn't hear him any more. My huband supported this 100%.
Night 2- Regular bedtime habbits cried for 48min.
Night 3- Regular bedtime habbitd cried for 32min.
Night 4- Regular bedtime habbits cried for 10min.
Night 5- Regular bedtime habbits cried for 2-3min.
He woke up in the night the first 4 nights cring but I didn't go in.
after a couple weeks he now doesn't even cry when we put him down.
I started naptime just putting him down after night 5. He was use to going to sleep on his own and understood that when I left that was it. He did cry for nap time for 2 weeks but now he won't cry when either me or my husband put him to bed.
This was so hard but let me tell you how worth it, it is. Yes the first week sleep was a thing I didn't think I would ever get again, but now it is a worry of the past.

Sorry so long
The last thing is have habbits for bed time and keep them the same everynight. It lets you child know that when these things start bedtime is soon. Also try to keep naptimes a close to the same time as possible.

All the luck to you hope my thoughts help if not don't give up.
shell

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Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

tena

11/02/03 09:16am

Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

thwarted

11/07/03 04:49pm

Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

Hollis's Mommy

11/05/03 05:09am

Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

multipurpose

11/05/03 10:15pm

Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

mom2david

11/14/03 10:16am

Re: Almost 2 yrs old STILL waking up for bottle!! HELP!

tena

11/14/03 02:27pm

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