My daughter slept well in her crib and... I was scared of what would happen when we introduced her to a toddler bed... one in which she had free will to simply get out of any time she wanted!
Paired with the cheapest mattress and
my daughter sleeps well on it.
For example, if you ask my husband, he'll tell you that
our daughter sleeps well.
It was clear from early on, that
our daughter slept the best with us.
My darling
daughter slept best when she was literally attached to me.
He said if it would make his newborn
daughter sleep better he would drown his cats himself.
While I don't want to slap a label on him, I'd love to hear more about the techniques that are helping
your daughter sleep better.
Specifically to help her adopted
daughter sleep better.
Not exact matches
Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old
daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves
sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the
good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old
daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»
My
daughter had her
best friend
sleep over and the next day they heated it up and ate them the next morning.
My
daughter has a harder time falling asleep than my son, but both are parented to
sleep in a way that works
best for them.
I think that prolonged nursing has help my
daughter to develop
good sleeping habits.
For example, my
daughter did not
sleep well in bed with us... until she was about 14 months.
My first
daughter slept much
better alone until about 15 months, at which point she
slept much
better with us until about 22 months, at which point she
slept much
better alone again.
In 1992, Dr. William Sears, a
well - known advocate of «
sleep sharing», did a study on the benefits for both mother and baby: he set up equipment to monitor his eight week old
daughter's breathing in two different
sleep environments: sharing a bed with her mother (his wife, Martha) the first night, and
sleeping alone.
by Olga My 2 month old
daughter falls asleep and has a
good 2 - 4hs
sleep only if I let my baby
sleep in her car seat... I worry if it's safe for her backbone and health in general.
Dear Abby: My 16 - year - old
daughter, «Jenny,»
sleeps at her
best friend's house about once a month.
(I was lucky, in that my
daughter slept really
well as a newborn, believe me, that changed after a few months.)
Being able to look at both of our
daughters without having to creep into the room and disturb them has helped us
sleep better at night.
And while my
daughter Montana was a pretty
good sleeper when she was younger,
sleep has not been easy with her.
While I can understand your concern about your
daughter's lack of
sleep while having to travel long distances, I think as a grandmother, it is your role to support your
daughter in whatever parenting decision she chooses, perhaps you could offer to spend the night every so often so she can catch up on a
good's night
sleep?
I know I am doing what is
best for my
daughter but sometimes I feel like I need to find gentle ways to help her
sleep for longer stretches, on her own but them am at a loss for how to do that.
She was able to help transform my
daughter's
sleep and get us back to
good (great, actually).
Our
daughter sleeps SO much
better when she's all snugly «tucked in.»
My
daughter gets lots of practice feeding and changing her baby, as
well as putting her to
sleep in our homemade baby doll beds.
It got me thinking about how sometimes, if my
daughter has a big play, or a big cry the night before she wakes up in an amazingly
good mood, even if she ends up having less
sleep.
Here are some
sleep strategies that worked really
well with our
daughter, ultimately our first born son, and that we are trying with our two - month - old.
My 2 month old
daughter falls asleep and has a
good 2 - 4hs
sleep only if I let my baby
sleep in her car seat... I worry if it's safe for her backbone and health in general.
Co-sleeping is
good in theory (yes, she doesn't wake up crying and I don't have to get up 20 times a night), but I don't feel I'm getting adequate
sleep; my
daughter tosses and turns a lot, kicks and reaches out for me, so I'm awake most of the night.
I don't think I would ever buy used cloth diapers its sad to say but some babies are born with infectious diseases but cloth diapers are a great idea my
daughter gets horrible rashes from pampers diapers and Huggies wipes I currently use luvs diapers and seventh generation wipes luvs diapers are cheaper don't give her rashes and hold up throughout the night as my
daughter hates to be woken up from a deep
sleep to be changed but she
sleeps a
good 8 hours at 6 months old and only pees while
sleeping but I'm considering cloth diapers they seem a little more reasonable
I did everything Breana does, those are great suggestions, my
daughter slept very
well following a similar pattern, but though my boy goes down easily at bedtime put to
sleep awake, he won't go back to
sleep on his own when he wakes up at night.
my
daughter is almost 9 months and she has been nursing sense she was born but she took a bottle until about 2 months old a binky as
well then one day she stopped taking them and would only nurse and the only way i could get her to
sleep is if im laying next to her and she is nursing and she will wake up and cry and i have to give her the boob to put her back to
sleep i do nt know what to do to get her to
sleep on her own i have tried binkys all kinds and bottles and sippys and she does nt want any of them she screams till i give her my boob.
I just put a bath towel under the fitted sheet (the mattress was protected
well) where my infant
daughter slept during the day, this way if she did pee it wasn't right up against the skin.
«Not very
well, actually...» I said, guiltily, trying to hide the bottle of formula sitting next to my bed while my
daughter slept, full - bellied, in my arms.
Several customers have given their opinion of the
good and bad experiences they have had with this baby glider swing: - A mother to a 5 - week - old girl lamented of the trouble she had getting her
daughter to
sleep since the girl wouldn't do so unless she was being held.
My
daughter was
sleeping so
well in her crib and we didn't want to mess with a
good thing!
I find myself heading back to Thirsties» Cloth Diapering 101 all the time when I'm wondering about trying a different style (we mostly use AIOs but when our
daughter started going through changes in her diet and
sleep habits, I thought about switching things up) or am simply wondering about the
best way to wash the dipes.
I'm not planning on getting into a game of «You'll never love him as
well as I do» with any future
daughter - in - law or son - in - law I may have and in no way do I want to be like that creepy mom from that kids book Love You Forever who climbs into her adult son's window to sing him to
sleep.
This was a tip recommended to me by many, but I don't have any experience using it as our
daughter slept on take off, but if you aren't as lucky, this is supposedly the
best way to help their ears adjust as drinking forces them to swallow.
The way I see our
sleeping arrangement is that our
daughter will gradually become more comfortable
sleeping away from her parents, but that it is our job to encourage her trust in her parents as
well as her own self - confidence by staying with her through the night, reassuring her that we are there for her no matter what.
I was really upset because my baby (almost 5 months old) hasn't been
sleeping all that
well and we had hosted a big play date on Saturday where my older
daughter (almost 3 years old) was a bit um, challenging, and I just felt like a failure as a mom.
One of my
best friends left her
daughter with me overnight when she was 11 months old, where she
slept through the night in a pack n play with no sadness or wake - ups.
I bought it when my
daughter was an infant, since my babies also
slept better upright.
Thank you, my
daughter is almost 5 months and wont use anything but me to
sleep, we have tried different dummies for months and nothing has worked because I thought thats what I had to do and she is my 4th but my other 3 I thought by now they had to wean from me to
sleep better because they all keep waking so thats what i did?
Our
daughter is almost 8 months old and is now taking
good naps after
sleep coaching.
On the one hand it feels like bouncing her to
sleep for her naps but not at bedtime would be confusing, but on the other hand, our
daughter seems to have an easier time going to
sleep at night if she's napped
well and isn't over tired.
So I am left with the thought that I know my
daughter better than anyone in the would and want only the
best for her and right now the
best thing for her is
sleep, but I am still left with the nagging qestioned have I made it harder for her by letting it go own for so long.
We co-
sleep with our
daughter (she'll be 2 in August) and we love it, though we had to finally move her to her own crib because none of us were getting a
good nights
sleep.
It was not without its struggles, but by the time baby number 2, a son arrived, our
daughter was
sleeping well through the night and awaking at a reasonable time.
«It was getting harder for me, my
daughter, and my husband to
sleep well.