How many 2 year olds sleep 10 hours straight and/or fall asleep by themselves? - Page 2

[hrsmom]

My 2 y.o. does sleep in decent stretches of sleep (but ten hours in a row maybe only once a week) but is nursed to sleep at bedtime.

One thing that I thought was that perhaps the later bedtime might be related to the longer days and it being summer. Assuming you're in the Northern Hemisphere? We have some pretty late wall bouncing here, too. I just try to not get her any more riled up, and encourage relaxing activities. I think nursing helps, actually. I plant the suggestion that she might want some 'nueys bed' and eventually she asks, and then falls asleep.

[XanaduMama]

I've got 2 kids. ds, who is 4.5, still cannot fall asleep by himself--we lie with him (and dd) until he's asleep, which fortunately doesn't take very long any more (since he stopped napping). He's always needed a lot of nighttime parenting, and we coslept until he was 3ish (he still comes in our room and gets into his little futon every night).

dd, who is 2, only falls asleep after we leave the room. She moved to a crib, in her own room, around 12mo, and isn't interested in cosleeping Now, we put her in her bed, sometimes with a book, and she falls asleep on her own. (They share a room: we read a story and wait until ds falls asleep, then leave the room--she's always still awake and waves bye bye quite happily.) This is very shocking to me, after ds, and reinforces my sense that it's all a matter of individual kids and their wiring. She sleeps pretty much through the night from 8ish until 7ish, though lately she's been having bad dreams and needing comfort in the wee hours of the morning--I think she's teething. She also takes a 1.5-2 hour nap, usually in the late morning.

We have a very strict bedtime routine and bedtime--ds's dreadful sleep as an infant made us very obsessive about sleep routines, and it works very well for us.

In your case, I would definitely work on moving her nap earlier, and maybe waking her up after 1.5-2 hours.

[friskykitty]

I am in a very similar place. I have a 30 month old son. We have always nursed to sleep and co sleep. He is able to go to sleep with his sitter during the day. She lays down beside him while he chatters. He goes down within 30 minutes.


For bed he nurses to sleep. Sometimes it happens really fast other times, it can be up to two hours of him chattering, up and down etc. I am a teacher,so when I am off for weekends/summer/holidays we do the same for nap time.

Overnight, he generally wakes up 1-2 times to nurse. But he's not really awake, just rolls over and asks for milk, latches and drinks. Most of the time, in the middle of the night, I can tell him "Mummy is going to roll over now" when he's finished drinking and he will let me. Otherwise, he'd use me as an all night pacifier.