Hi everyone - I am a mothering "renewal". I used to visit this site all the time but computer woes took me away for about a year. But I am happy to be back!!! Anyway, I have 2 questions.
1st - My 1 year old shares our bed and always has. We love it! However, he goes to bed fine and then everynight it seems he wakes up every hour or so until I go to bed and then he has "normal" night wakings for nursing. It doesn't bother me during the night because I don;t wake really wake up all the way. But I do enjoy having a couple to hours to relax, talk to my husband, watch a movie, etc without having to get up every hour or more to get him back to sleep. I got The "No-Cry Sleep Solution" and we are working on those suggestions but I really don't see how that is going to help him sleep longer stretches. He's not hungry, he just wakes up. I know that he just hasn't learned to get through those lighter sleep periods without fully awakening. Any suggestions? By the way, We are staunchly opposed to "cry it out" so that is not under any circumstances an option for us!
2nd - my 3 1/2 year old goes to sleep in his own bed and will have 3-4 days of sleeping through the night fine. Then other nights he wakes up about midnight and wants to co-sleep, then back to sleeping alone, and so on and so forth. Is this just the transition to sleeping fully independent? We're fine either way, I guess I just wish he'd pick one so we know what to count on.
Thanks!
Kelly
1st - My 1 year old shares our bed and always has. We love it! However, he goes to bed fine and then everynight it seems he wakes up every hour or so until I go to bed and then he has "normal" night wakings for nursing. It doesn't bother me during the night because I don;t wake really wake up all the way. But I do enjoy having a couple to hours to relax, talk to my husband, watch a movie, etc without having to get up every hour or more to get him back to sleep. I got The "No-Cry Sleep Solution" and we are working on those suggestions but I really don't see how that is going to help him sleep longer stretches. He's not hungry, he just wakes up. I know that he just hasn't learned to get through those lighter sleep periods without fully awakening. Any suggestions? By the way, We are staunchly opposed to "cry it out" so that is not under any circumstances an option for us!
2nd - my 3 1/2 year old goes to sleep in his own bed and will have 3-4 days of sleeping through the night fine. Then other nights he wakes up about midnight and wants to co-sleep, then back to sleeping alone, and so on and so forth. Is this just the transition to sleeping fully independent? We're fine either way, I guess I just wish he'd pick one so we know what to count on.
Thanks!
Kelly