Need help to get 12 month old to sleep

Amber - posted on 04/08/2010

Letting him sleep in the same bed with you isn't good... but i found that by having my son on a strict schedule helped alot. for example he was always up by 7am and he was to be put down for a nap between 11 and 12, but wasnt allowed to sleep past 3... then i let him play all he wanted until 6:30/7 when he got his bath and he was always in bed by 8 at the latest, but i used to grab a good novel or when i was in school a boring text book and read it out loud to him. if he wasnt sleeping within an hour i'd just leave him to fall asleep on his own, but for the most part he fell asleep when i was reading... oh i also played classical music while reading to him.. its great as long as i have the classical music with me, he can fall asleep just about anywhere.

Nicole - posted on 04/07/2010

I know the crying it out can be hard, but it is effective. My husband worked nights, and I was really lonely so my daughter slept in bed with me until she was 6 months old. We then let her cry it out at night, a doctor's suggestion, because they don't need a bottle in the night anymore by that point, they wake up out of habit. Letting them cry it out is so hard, I did it alone trust me I know its hard. But they need to know that every time they cry, you won't leap to them. Self soothing is very important when they are toddlers.

E Victoria - posted on 03/24/2010

what's his sleeping schedule like during the day? It's a good idea to make sure their nap times aren't too late in the afternoon, so they'll go to sleep at a decent time. My daughter took a nap between 12-3pm, this time is best for bedtimes at 7-8pm, if she took a nap after 2:30 and slept past 4 then she'd be up until at least 9 or 10 and would get up in the middle of the night. When my daughter got up in the middle of the night, she is always up up, like she wasn't tired at all, so she I had to stay up to play for a little bit, to get her tired. I did my best to make sure she took an early nap and then after wards get her really tired, playing hard so she'll go right to sleep and stay asleep during the night. If they are tired enough they'll sleep a long time, maybe he needs to be moving around a little more before bedtime.

Erica - posted on 03/13/2010

First off i would never let my kid sleep in the same bed as me. that is just silly. there is no point in it. My daughter is 13 months old and she still has trouble sleeping through the night some times. I would really make your kid sleep in their own room by their selves. If you make sure they have teething tablets and some tylenol, then they are good and they can sleep by theirselves. By you putting him in his bed right next to yours is only going to make it harder on you. One thing that i do is have some sort of noise maker in my daughters room so that she become used to sleeping in noise.