Very balanced book, full of information to help you as a parent understand your child and in turn cope
with nighttime wakings.
If a mother can't cope
with nighttime wakings, I suggest Elizabeth Pantley's book, The No - Cry Sleep Solution.
Not exact matches
If you have already tried everything possible to take care of your needs for rest, like
waking later in the morning, napping
with your child, or going to bed earlier, and decide that you want to proceed
with nighttime weaning, know that it can be very difficult if your child isn't ready to do so on his own.
I would
wake up early to get my long runs in, use naptime or
nighttime when necessary, and perhaps the most fun of all, train as I pushed that double BOB jogger
with my family.
There is also the issue of
nighttime fears and nightmares which increase
with age through childhood until a peak (often early childhood) then start to decrease again; these fears are considered cognitively, socially, and emotionally normal [7], but do result in night
wakings that often require parental involvement.
It is also associated
with poor sleep quality,
nighttime crying, daytime sleepiness, attention problems, hyperactivity, and frequent night
wakings (e.g., Fukumizu et al 2005; Hiscock et al 2007; Shur - Fen Gau 2006).
By sleeping through the night, I mean that he sleeps at least 11 hours or so straight, from bedtime to
wake up,
with no
nighttime visits from my husband and me.
Co-sleeping speeds up
nighttime dryness: If you are co-sleeping it is much easier to tell when your child is
waking to go to the toilet thus preventing accidents and re-enforcing potty training
with minimal effort.
i Disagree
with the person who is anonymous because my baby sleeps
with his daddy EVERY night and he does have the natural sense of the baby, Actually i think he has it better than i do at
nighttime (and ONLy at
nighttime) because hes the one who takes care of our son at
nighttime, he
wakes up as soon as baby makes a noise even if its a lil cough or if he moves a lil bit.
Recently, researchers also examined the effect of
nighttime wakings (which are indeed more frequent for parents sharing a room or bed
with their baby) on Mom and Dad's happiness.
ALL human beings
with a properly working circadian rhythm
wake naturally during the night, and in many cultures this was accompanied by rising from bed and participating in
nighttime activities such as socializing or reading or whatever.
Help your child
wake up dry
with these simple tips on
nighttime potty training.
He sleeps well at night — he
wakes up once or twice to eat (between 8 pm and 7 am), and that's fine
with us — so the time in the crib doesn't appear to be impacting his
nighttime sleep.
I still don't hand off
nighttime feedings, though — I don't want to be reckless
with my supply just because it * seems * perfectly established, and honestly, I'd have to
wake up and pump anyway, because OW.
For Ike's first year of life, I couldn't even DEAL
with his nap schedule — I was too busy trying to survive
nighttime, when he would
wake up over and over and over again and require all sorts of nonsense to get back to sleep.
We try to stay as consistent as possible
with our
nighttime routine and how we communicate
with her and work
with her when she
wakes up during the night.
We have just recently accepted our fate and are finding ways to cope
with the situation as it stands: work together as a team during
nighttime wake ups, rotate allowing one another to sleep in, etc. until it passes.
Two problems can appear:
nighttime waking and development of negative associations
with sleep (as when your baby gets used to depend on rocking or feeding, as a prerequisite to sleeping)-- this is usual as for newborns so for older children.
I needed to find ways to cope
with the nursing sessions that remained so important to Jack (
nighttime, naptime and upon
waking).
Some people
wake up from an afternoon snooze feeling groggier than they did before they fell asleep, and for others, napping can interfere
with the quality of their
nighttime sleep — especially if they already suffer from insomnia.
If you have Non-24-Hour Sleep -
Wake Disorder (a.k.a. «Non-24»), your circadian rhythm isn't always matched up
with daytime and
nighttime because your cycle is longer than 24 hours.
With Kobo Aura ONE, enjoy
nighttime reading without impacting your sleep, and
wake up feeling refreshed.
Pair their
nighttime and morning bulbs
with a smart lighting switch like the Caséta Wireless dimmer and correlating app so you can set your household's bedtime and
wake - up calls
with just the swipe of your finger.