bedtime

Chris - posted on 11/03/2010

oh gosh! the same has happened with Arianna! she use to go to bed at 9pm.. now, for the past 2 weeks, its been midnight! maybe its a phase? coz most of my friends with kids around the same age, are all going thru it too..

Stephanie - posted on 11/02/2010

Thank you all for the great advice. I'm hoping that we can get through this time. I just know that letting my son crying for an hour in the middle of the night (or morning as the case often is) doesn't work. And putting him in his bed a million times while I am almost 8 months pregnant.. is exhausting me. Maybe putting him in his bed a million times in the middle of the night is the thing to do. I just know that sleeping on the floor in his room is not working for me.

Gwen - posted on 11/01/2010

Alicia, I'd just keep returning him to his bed - no words, kisses, spanks, etc. After a few nights, I'm sure he'll get the message....and I hope you (and all of us) have time for naps during this transitional phase.

Alicia - posted on 11/01/2010

My son has aproblem when going to bed. he sleeps in a king single with a rail on it and he goes to bed 730 every night. sometimes he goes straight to sleep but other nights he always climbs out of bed and comes out to wherever myself or grandad is. We always take him back to bed the first time and tell him its sleep time. kiss him goodnight again and then walk out but he still seems to want to get out so the next time we put him to bed i smack his bottom. and take him back to bed. he has a sook for a bit but then goes straight to sleep. During the night when everyone is in bed he seems to come into my room i keep trying to put him back to his bed but he just keeps coming back to my room in the end i just put him in my bed and he stays asleep. I don't know what to do about that.

Stephanie - posted on 11/01/2010

My son, DJ is 22 months and we put him in bed at night and tell him goodnight after his bedtime routine and all. There is a gate on his door so he can't get out. He usually follows me out of the room and cries for 10 or 15 minutes at the gate and then fall asleep in front of the gate. We move him to his toddler bed after he's been asleep. He wakes up a couple times at night now and won't go back to sleep unless we lay on the floor. If we just let him cry again at the gate, he will cry even up to an hour one night. Not sure how to get him to go to sleep that won't exhaust us too. I need help! We have been using his toddler bed for a week now.

LaShana - posted on 11/01/2010

hey, i have a 22 month old i put im in a toddler bed at 15months it was early but i saw him getting in his brothers bed with no prob so i deceiced to take the play pin away and get a big boys bed. now at first he love it but from time to time i have to get on him because now he can get up on his own and get out the bed and he thinks its a game but i just let him know if you dont want pow pow you better get ur but back in that bed and it still doesnt work all the time but i know getting a night light helps alot or get in big brothers bed. i hpoe somethings works for you.

Jodie - posted on 10/31/2010

we are in exactly the same situation we can lay with him for up to an hour, the cot came down to a toddler bed and he thought it was a game any ideas we will try anything to get him back to his old sleep routine. We felt like it was only us everyone tells you their kids sleep all the time, no problems, you wonder.

Gwen - posted on 10/31/2010

I haven't had that happen yet - P is still in her crib. I like the "supernanny" technique of repeatedly placing her in her crib - not with a lot of interaction - quietly placing the child back in bed or saying "it's time for bed". I did use the technique when P was having trouble adjusting to her crib from co-sleeping and it seemed to work. Good luck....I've taken from this technique that non-emotional repetition and consistency are key to your wee one getting the message that you mean business.

Liz - posted on 10/29/2010

I have 23 month old twins - and we bought "cozy tents" for their cribs. I decided they just wouldn't be able to handle toddler beds for at least another 6 months - now they can't get out of their cribs. They are great.

Belinda - posted on 10/29/2010

My problem is that although my little 22month old is still in a cot in a sleeping bag and cant climb out she is day time potty trained and knows that if she wants a wee to ask and we will let her go. So she uses the fact when she is meant to be going to sleep (she is quite capable of producing 4 poos in a row if she wants). This means I cant insist that she stays in bed. I don't want to jepodise the potty training. I don't know whether to put her in a bed so she can get to the potty herself or to keep going into her.

Jennifer - posted on 10/28/2010

My daughter isn't climbing out of her crib yet but she is 22months old and has been taking her diaper off in the crib and peeing on her sheets and throwing her poop all over the place. It is near impossible to get her to nap or go to bed anymore. If i yell at her she laughs at me.. Hopefully she will grow out of this soon... VERY HOPEFUL..

Jodie - posted on 10/28/2010

We are having exactly the same problem, we have just spent a month overseas and while we were away he was in portacots in our room at most of places we stayed, I dont know if he is just used to having us in the room, but we have to lay with him to get him to sleep, but when we try to get up he wakes and says no mummy or daddy stay. Yes our nights are gone too!! We dont know what to do either

Mandy - posted on 10/27/2010

I am dreading when my wee girl does that! she is a similar age! My boy who is now nearly 5 did the same thing at that age, we went out and made a really big deal about buying him a special big boys bed ( we got a car bed) and he needed to stay in it all night etc etc and he was really good in his bed, he choose it and was very excited about it, the threat of putting him back in the cot if he got out of his bed was a help! otherwise put your wee girl in a sleeping back so she cant get her leg up over the top of the cot!

Naomi - posted on 10/24/2010

Some people suggest when she gets out of bed to just take her by the hand and walk back to bed with her. The first time to say 'it's time for bed' and say nothing each time after that, just take them by the hand. I think you need to choose a plan and do it for a week before deciding if it's working. I have my toddler in her cot with a toddler sleeping bag on. That way she cant get her legs appart to climb out.

Diane - posted on 10/20/2010

My little one sleeps in a toddler bed some nights she goes right to sleep other nights she doesnt.( right now she is sharing a room with her 'big' brother-he is 11 months older then she is). The nights that she does not go right to sleep we put a child gate at their door and let her wander from her bed to the door. There is nothing in their bedroom that they can get hurt on or with so we know she is safe. Her brother usually falls asleep while she is playing. But we have tried putting her back into bed and by doing that she turns it into a game,if we just let her wander back and forth from her bed to the door or sit there and play she is usually asleep with in a half hour.....when we first started doing this my husband usually would have to go in after she fell asleep and put her in her bed. for the past month she has been putting herself to bed when she is ready...but with the gate we can peek in and make sure she is ok and we have decided that as long as they are in their rooms and quiet we would not force the bed issue...once our son realized we were not going to go in there constantly or stay in there when they didnt go right to sleep he lost interest in trying to make himself stay up and the youngest only does it occasionally now, and seems to do it less all the time,,,I hope this helps..best of luck to you