https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:58:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573462 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:41:08 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 2573462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Door knob cover his side only worked until he turned about 3.5 and then he just understood the deal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573365 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:44:33 +0000 josina 2573365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DillonLion: That's reassuring!<br /> @kiddosc: He used to be SUCH a good sleeper until 18 months and then screamed/tantrumed at bed time so we had to lay with him till he fell asleep. He's over the screaming part but now just doesn't want to stay in bed.<br /> Shutting the door will probably be the easiest to do, If I hear him up I can go put him back to bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573302 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:09:14 +0000 kiddosc 2573302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We put a door knob cover on the inside of his bedroom door and shut the door. If he woke up, then I'd hear him on the monitor and go to him. We never laid with him to go to sleep though, so he wasn't expecting us to be in the room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573289 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:01:34 +0000 DillonLion 2573289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: Very little time! Like a day or two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573281 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:58:35 +0000 FaithFertility 2573281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: Following, and we are in a crib still, but Bang 3-4a.m. she is up and with us!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573280 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:57:55 +0000 FaithFertility 2573280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: Yep!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573279 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:57:47 +0000 Mrs.Waffles 2573279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOL. We're on the same boat. DS keeps climbing out of his crib. So for now he is sleeping in our room with us in his pack n play, while we wait for his crib to toddler bed kit. Once that arrives back to his room he goes. Not looking forward to the crying that's to come. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573275 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:55:04 +0000 snowjewelz 2573275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: I have no idea what we're gonna do when I'm huge... But that's another battle for another day, haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573270 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:50:58 +0000 josina 2573270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DillonLion: How long does it take till she stays put?<br /> I'm thinking we need to start doing that but our own sleep has been winning this fight, so he stays in bed with us but NOT ideal, especially with one on the way.<br /> Maybe a long weekend would help...<br /> @808love: lol, that's where we're at. ;)<br /> @snowjewelz: We're pretty dang close to co-sleeping full time, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573215 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:29:52 +0000 snowjewelz 2573215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: same here, lol. we co-sleep full time so this problem doesn't exist :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573207 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:25:53 +0000 808love 2573207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can't beat Em, Sleep with them! LOL! Sorry, no help here. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573192 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:20:36 +0000 DillonLion 2573192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just keep taking her back to bed every time she gets out of it. Over time she learns that it isn't worth getting up and she just stays in her room. We go through phases where she will start trying it again, but we just try really hard to take her back each time and she quits. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-keep-your-toddler-in-bed-all-night#post-2573087 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:39:27 +0000 josina 2573087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 18 months DS went through some separation anxiety and started bailing from the crib so we had to convert already, and now he's in our bed every night, as soon as he wakes up and realizes we're not in the room anymore -which is often before midnight.</p> <p>How do you/did you keep your toddler in their bed all night? (or most of the night) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-routine-weaning-of-bottle#post-1902666 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:05:54 +0000 blackbird 1902666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We would offer a straw cup numerous times....sometimes she would freak out, we would give Her a bottle, then back to the straw cup. Out of sight, out of mind-she was off bottles within a week, totally. She gets her milk in a metal Foogo before bed now.</p> <p>We were able to reach E the milk sign (the ONLY one she kmows) which helps a ton. IF we make the sign and repeat it, we know she wants milk in the middle of the night (rare) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-routine-weaning-of-bottle#post-1902659 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:59:59 +0000 HappyJax 1902659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the tip. I was worried about quitting cold turkey but I might just try it and see what happens. I think I'm scared he'll start waking up in the middle of the night hungry </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-routine-weaning-of-bottle#post-1902653 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:56:56 +0000 pinkb 1902653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @lawbee11: we quit cold turkey at 12 months. DD gets milk in a straw cup with dinner and then before bed if she wants some we sit and have some milk out of the straw cup. All her other bedtime routines stayed the same. I wanted to stop early cause I was a bottle addict as a baby/ young child. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-routine-weaning-of-bottle#post-1902650 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:53:58 +0000 lawbee11 1902650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just quit cold turkey. She has milk in a sippy cup with dinner then that's it. We do everything else the same (bath, lotion, pjs, brush teeth, etc). We stopped for the same reason--I was worried about cavities because we wouldn't brush her teeth after she nursed. It was actually pretty painless! I still rock her, just no milk. Good luck!</p> <p>ETA: We quit at 13 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-routine-weaning-of-bottle#post-1902645 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:51:33 +0000 HappyJax 1902645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 16 months and only takes a bottle at night but we would like to wean him off of it. Any tips on weaning? Did your LO still take milk before bed at that age but in a sippy cup? What is your nighttime routine like?</p> <p>Right now we feed him the bottle in the dark and then rock him for awhile before putting him down. He sometimes drinks more milk after we brush his teeth so I'd like to get away from doing that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-908169 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:38:45 +0000 Mrswonderwoman 908169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85. I just got ferbers book on my ipad and started reading it. He makes it sound way too easy! Like, dropping a feeding is a piece of cake....um, no! Lol...</p> <p>I think I'm going to do nights first, and then worry about naps. We have a pretty solid nighttime routine: bath, sing a few songs while changing diaper, snuggle, nurse (he doesn't completely fall asleep nursing), then pacifier, bed. He tosses and turns and rolls for a bit, loses his paci probably 5 times, then eventually goes to sleep. The problem seems to be habitual waking to eat at pretty regular intervals (last night, it was every 2 hours). I tried just patting him back to sleep last night at midnight, and it worked! So, he went about 4 hours between feeds that time...course, not all of it was total sleep, but that's still progress!</p> <p>The other thing is the early wake ups. This may just be because of the habitual eating because its always about the same time, but DS always seems to stir at 6 am, but is definitely not fully waking...I'd love to see that end too....but at that point, nursing, and patting seems to work best. And since I can't fall back asleep anyways I might as well. He usually is up for the day around 7 then and is his happy giggly self. But it would be nice if that last hour wasn't spent trying to cajole him back to sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-907109 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:12:16 +0000 Lindsay05 907109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we did naps first. It was always a battle to get her to nap so finally I just set LO down and left. It made it easier to do it at night knowing that it worked for naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-907082 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:41:36 +0000 Thenetexan 907082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did both at the same time. We tried to do them separate, some books suggest they recognize a difference so you can do one without the other. Our pediatrician said to do both at the same time and ultimately, we followed the Sleep Lady book plan and did both at the same time. It was a rough few days, but the end result was life changing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-906678 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:21:50 +0000 Mrs. Bee 906678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nights. nights are easier and they'll be better rested to tackle the days. with charlie we did both at the same time which was hard. </p> <p>there are lots of posts on sleep training on hellobee!</p> <p><a href="http://www.hellobee.com/sleep-training/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/sleep-training/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-906676 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:21:18 +0000 hilsy85 906676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think generally people tackle night first because its easier--baby is naturally more tired versus naps, which also need to repeat throughout the day. Have you read any sleep training books? We used Ferber and I found his book to be really helpful and informative. I know in the no cry sleep solution, se discusses ways to improve sleep while continuing to co sleep so that might be a good option ft you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-906667 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:03:13 +0000 tysonja 906667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we did both too, but if i had to choose, i would choose night for sure! :) i think that might be in the long run more beneficial for baby too? just thinking along the lines of, if they get a good night's sleep with minimal or no wake - up's they will be more refreshed than if they tackle a few hour long naps during the day :) just a thought! :) good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-906643 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:35:54 +0000 Rubies 906643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I'm not sure if I'm the best person to ask because I did BOTH (nap and night) at the same time by crying it out. My goal was to get LO to fall asleep on her own (in her own room and crib) without having me to rock her at all. She was a terrible napper and night sleeper and I was prepared to tackle both at the same time to get all the stress out of the way in one shot. </p> <p>Which is worse for you/your LO? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-should-i-tackle-first-nap-or-night#post-906631 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:13:12 +0000 Mrswonderwoman 906631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS just turned 6 months old, and I'm ready for sleep to get better. He was fairly decent as a newborn, only waking 2 times to feed at night, and going back to sleep easily. But once we hit the 4 month sleep regression and stopped swaddling, it's been pretty terrible. Anywhere from 3-5 night wakings, sometimes more. Ive usually been nursing him back to sleep, but sometimes even that doesn't work!</p> <p> His naps used to be reliably 2 hrs, but those started getting shorter, and often he would startle at 40 mins in and need help going back to sleep (and I know he's not ready to be up at 40 mins because he's soooo cranky).</p> <p>I've had a few rough days where I've been in tears because I'm surviving off of maybe 1-2 hrs of sleep total. It's not good for me mentally or physically. And so, I'm ready to start working on this! But I'm not sure which one I should tackle first, night or naps.</p> <p>For night time, DS cosleeps with me. Eventually, I'd like to have him in the pack n play in our room for at least a majority of the night. For naps, he used to be in his crib, but then really had trouble with it, so I started napping him where he sleeps at night, and that seems to help some. I did try to get him to sleep in his crib last week for a nap....it took 30 mins of patting and shushing to get him down, when normally it's less than 5. My goal is to have him napping inhis crib so that I can get some stuff done!</p> <p>Anyways...I need a game plan and advice, and I haven't an idea where to start. Should I work on night wakings first and getting him inthe pack in play? I don't really know what to change or do. I'm not 100% opposed to cry it out, but it's also probably not what I want to start with. I'd love to get his night wakings back down to 2. I can handle that. This every 90 min - 2 hours, plus squirming and rolling all over the place, is driving me nuts!</p> <p>Any advice, tips, or thoughts on where to begin. It's kind of daunting to figure this out.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nursing-and-sleep-training#post-821581 Fri, 31 May 2013 10:18:36 +0000 rattles 821581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrswonderwoman: I totally hear you. Follow your gut. I felt like I could tell that LO was getting to the age where her wants were different from her needs. She needed more sleep but wanted to be up and playing. She only cried for 18 minutes total (in between checks, and I totally cried while she did, ha) and already seems happier. You'll know whether it's the right call for you and your baby, Mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nursing-and-sleep-training#post-821575 Fri, 31 May 2013 10:15:42 +0000 rattles 821575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO slept through the night last night! I put her down at 7:30pm, she fussed for a minute or two once or twice during the night but resettled without help and didn't wake up to eat until 5am! Granted she wouldn't go back to sleep then and is now on her second nap at 10am, but still! I hadn't had that long of a stretch of sleep in probably a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nursing-and-sleep-training#post-821548 Fri, 31 May 2013 10:08:02 +0000 Mrswonderwoman 821548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I need to figure out how to get LO sleeping long in between night feedings, because evy 1-2 hrs is insane! He gives me usually at least one 3 hr stretch, sometimes two. But really, I know he can go longer between meals, he just can't seem to figure out how to stay asleep that long....*sigh*. I really don't want to do CIO for wakings at night. I'm not sure I can stomach it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nursing-and-sleep-training#post-818825 Thu, 30 May 2013 15:47:03 +0000 rattles 818825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrswonderwoman: That was exactly our situation! She would go from bedtime until around midnight before nursing and then eat three times between then and morning. Because I knew she could last 5-6 hours , I felt pretty comfortable cutting the night feedings down to one in the middle. We'll see how that goes, since last night was the first night. (It went well last night, and she hasn't seemed to need to eat more during the day.) </p> <p>I had put off sleep training for the same reasons. We're keeping LO in our room because we're in a one-bedroom condo. It's on the market now, but until we move, she's got to be in our room. DH loves cosleeping, but I was starting to have trouble sleeping with my wiggleworm DD (even though I love the easy nursing). We don't have to worry about wakeups until after midnight when we're in the room trying to sleep. We've just stayed still in bed and then gotten up to sit/stand by the crib for checks. I do think being in the room was why pick up put down didn't work well for us. </p>