https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:53:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2771170 Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:41:21 +0000 RKitty 2771170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Canoli: My 14 month old is very similar. He gets a bottle for nap time and a bottle for bed time. And when he's not at day care he sleeps in the bed with us. We've also talked about moving him out of our bed since he was a couple months old...</p> <p>We did cut out the middle of the night feeding by slowly reducing the amount in the bottle. It was 8 ounces then 6 ounces then 4 ounces... and then we were able to just sooth him back to sleep.</p> <p>This weekend - maybe tonight - hopefully tomorrow night at the latest we're going to try him in his own room in his crib. This will be like the 10th time though... but I mean it! (yah right). Our plan is to follow our bedtime routine like normal but just go to bed in his crib... hopefully! I'm sure it's going to be a couple of tough nights. Once he's sleeping on his own we'll work on dropping that bedtime bottle but I don't want to make too many changes at once. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770851 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:56:00 +0000 bloved 2770851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Canoli: Thanks for the commiseration :) Yes, I think my entire "sleep training" with this one was "how can I get us all back to sleep the quickest..." I forgot to mention that with those middle of the night bottles, we start co-sleeping too!</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: @wrkbrk: So I tried the water in the middle of the night last night and it worked...he drank it ( not the whole thing, but did not fuss about it or reject it). Hopefully he will soon realize its not worth it and give up waking up for it ;)</p> <p>So I tried a (very modified) cio at his 7:30 bedtime, meaning I put him in his crib and stayed in his room, next to the crib. You would have thought I was scalding him alive. I lasted about 2 minutes, and my husband took over and lasted about 15 before we picked him up. I am worried he is too strong willed for cio...but surely every parent must feel that way right? Eventually they cave?!? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770819 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:46:54 +0000 Shantuck 2770819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't speak to sleep training a 1 year old but I can speak to sleep training a younger sibling. We were fortunate to have the grandparents offer to take the bigger guy for a night when our younger kid was 6 months old. We had one rough night while he was out of the house and the next night had a wake up but it wasn't as bad and even though they share a wall and our bigger guy is a light sleeper generally, he actually slept through it (there is no way he would have slept through it that first night - it was brutal!). By night 3, our younger kid slept through the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770815 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:04:27 +0000 Canoli 2770815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have absolutely nothing productive to share other than from one fellow April 2016 mama to another-our baby is still in the pack and play in our bedroom, we still give him a bottle before bed, when he wakes up in the morning and before naps on the weekend, and when he does wake up in the middle of the night (sometimes sleeps straight through) I pick him up, put the binky in his mouth and bring him in our bed so yeah tons of bad habits over here. Honestly my husband and I have been talking about putting him in his crib since about 2 months old. That's a whole lot of talking and no action! Really what it comes down to is we want sleep but I know we have to make changes too! Ugh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770798 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:03:46 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2770798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wrkbrk: @bloved: at one point we broke the MOTN wake ups for milk by switching to water. It took two nights for LO to stop waking just for an extra sippy cup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770797 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:03:32 +0000 Ms. RV 2770797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gradual bottle weaning (a half ounce smaller each night until zero) worked great for us, both middle of the night and before bed (though not at the same time). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770795 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:57:22 +0000 SteelerGirl 2770795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bloved: I only have one so no suggestions for how to deal with big brother. I won't even pretend I know how to handle two kids. That's a whole different ballgame! Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770790 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:44:40 +0000 youboots 2770790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SteelerGirl: I agree with you. I was cosleeping against my will and we eventually trained her out of it and she slept with me in bed for the first time in a year or so last night.@bloved: can you let him cry it out before big brother goes to bed and maybe have dad walk him to the park or something? Or do it over the weekend and have the older one stay at grandparents house? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770785 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:26:38 +0000 bloved 2770785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: I read that book when he was first born, I need to pull it out again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770783 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:25:07 +0000 bloved 2770783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@youboots: @SteelerGirl: I am open to cio, although I've tried in the past (with boy my kids) and they are stronger willed then I am! Have either of you done cry it out with the second child? I guess my question is how do you do it and I'm sure that you don't wake up the older kid? They don't share a room but big brother is a light sleeper. I actually think that's how we developed these habits now that I think about it. We just wanted to get the baby down as quickly as possible as to not wake the other one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770780 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:22:57 +0000 bloved 2770780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wrkbrk: that's a good idea! I'm going to try that with tonight's middle of the night bottle!</p> <p>@bhbee: I totally a scribe to that. My first was not a great sleeper either. However we had an established nighttime routine, cut evening bottles, and cut middle the night feedings. So I also don't know how I forgot how to do all of that! That being said it didn't make any difference. He didn't start sleeping through the night until the summer when he turned four! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770756 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:58:43 +0000 SteelerGirl 2770756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This advice definitely isn't right for everyone, but I have the philosophy that my child will come to expect whatever you establish as the norm for them. So you just have to establish a new normal. Once they figure out this is the new normal, they will adapt to it. There is a "breaking in" period, where it's not normal yet, and that's the hard part. But if you stick with it (and you have to stick with it for it to become "normal"!!) then it will work. </p> <p>My advice is to just do it. Create the reality you want and act like it's normal. Your child will come to expect it.</p> <p>My 1 year old knows when I put her in her sleep sack, turn out the light, and leave the room, that I won't be back until morning (7 AM to be exact). She hasn't made a peep in the middle of the night since she was 4.5 months old. She is usually awake by 6 AM but stays quiet in her crib until 7 because she knows that I don't respond to her. I know she's safe in her crib so unless she's sick or hurt, I won't go in her room from 7 PM- 7 AM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770753 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:42:14 +0000 youboots 2770753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>CIO solved it for us. We had to sleep train her several times after one especially after vacation </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770751 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:33:18 +0000 bhbee 2770751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really liked the happy sleep habits healthy child book, some of it is geared to younger babies but some of the ideas worked well for any age (like really early bedtimes). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770750 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:32:30 +0000 bhbee 2770750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sleep trained at 13m, a little painful but it worked. We did some cio (within limits I was ok with). Night time was fixed pretty quickly, naps took longer but it eventually worked. The bad news is now at 2.5 he's a bad sleeper again. Always expects someone to be there while he falls asleep and always expects someone to come lay with him when he wakes at 2-4am. I think some kids are just bad sleepers!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770747 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:13:42 +0000 wrkbrk 2770747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bloved: We gave our son a bottle to sleep and in the middle of the night until he was probably 11 months and our pediatrician said to cut it out. So we started giving a sippy cup of water instead. He didnt even flinch. Try just switching from milk to water first, then switch to only at bedtime and not in the middle of the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770736 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:01:45 +0000 bloved 2770736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Apologies for any typos- writing on my phone! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breaking-bad-habits-and-sleep-help-for-a-1-year-okd#post-2770735 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:52:05 +0000 bloved 2770735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>aka is it too late to sleep train and how the heck do you do it?! 😝</p> <p>My 16 month old is a terrible sleeper. He typically wakes up at least once between 12-2 and then again around 4:30.</p> <p>However, I don't feel like it is totally his fault. My husband and I have created some terrible habits so I would love advice on how I can break the habits and help my guy learn to self soothe.</p> <p>here are the bad habits I need help breaking:<br /> We still give a bottle to fall asleep (and, due to a cold he had, reintroduced bottle for middle of the night wakings- I cringe writing that out!)</p> <p>We stay with him each night until he falls asleep.</p> <p>Any advice appreciated. School starts again next week and I seriously need some sleep!! </p>