My daughter is 7 1/2 months old and since 2 Months old she has been going to sleep in her crib. At 8pm i would lay her down and she would go to sleep. The last 3 nights have been crazy she does not want go to sleep, she svreems when I put her in her bed and it takes 10-20 min to get her to sleep even in my arms, She SCREEMS!!! Once I get her to sleep and put her to bed she is fine for the night until 7-8am. What can I do to stop this?? I LOVE to rock her to sleep but I know it will start a bad habbit for the future. What would make her habbits change?? There has not been any changes in the home. Help!!!
Do you think she might be teething?
When my daughter is teething, I notice she is much fussier and a lot harder to get to sleep.
I am in the bad habit of rocking my daughter to sleep (she is almost 9 months old). I know it’s not the best, but it works for us now.
Try a little Orajel or some people have told me about teething tablets. When I’ve gone to Babies R Us they are out so I haven’t tired them.
Good Luck!
My daughter is 15 months old and we have been through this stage several timess.
Just like your little one. My daughter has put herself to sleep in her crib since she was very young. I just lay her down with her pacifier and she goes to sleep no problems. But every once in a while - she has a couple of days in a row where she will cry and want to be held and rocked. So I hold and rock her for a couple of days. Then it passes and she goes back to going in her cirb and going to sleep. It is usually about 3 days. It seems to go along with a tiem when she is very much into mommy and doesnt want daddy or anyone else.
Just this week my daughter had about a week straight where she screamed every night when I put her in the crib. I went back to rock and sing for about 4 nights but it wasnt getting better. So I had to let her cry it out. It took 15 minutes the first night, then less than 10 the second night and 2 minutes last night.
I wouldnt have let her cry it out at a younger age- but at 15 months. she knows the routine of bedtime and she is old enough to be manipulate mom and dad.
Try giving extra cuddles and rocking for a couple of more days and if she continues on with the crying - you may have to let her cry for a night or two. -Just make suer that she is tired when you put her to bed. So she is likely to go to sleep after a few minutes of crying.
A. my daughter does this every once in awhile also. I don't take her out of the bed though. I always put her in tell her good night and leave. I will go back in if she does'nt stop crying and tell her good night, go to sleep, mommies here your safe night, night! She will calm down. Once i had to rub her back for a liitle while, but I did not take her out of bed. Then when I was done rubbing back I said night night and walked out. They will learn if your consistant. My rule was always never to take her back out of bed once she's in there! If you do they will try it every night! L.
Routine, routine routine. Bath, story, rock and if she falls asleep by you rocking her, then what's the problem? By the time she's 13 she'll hate you so get the cuddles now. Actually my 2 year old hates being rocked now. You can phase out the rocking but if she goes to sleep content and happy, there is no problem.
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