Our 17 month old baby won't sleep through the night. What can we do?

Since he was about 10 months old and up until last month, he'd been sleeping in his own bed and in his own room through the night without any problems. Recently, it's just been a nightmare. He gets up almost every hour crying and screaming for us to hold him until he falls asleep. I've tried moving him into our room and into our bed, but it hasn't solved the problem. He still wants to be cuddled to sleep. He's perfectly fine - it's not what we feed him, not teething, not illness, not a growth spurt...We just can't figure it out! We need our sleep! Advice anyone?

Answer:
i think alot of kids go through these stages... and to be honest i would never start the thing of having my child in my bed, alot of these difficulties come from attention and boy is he getting alot of it from you for this behaviour!

make sure you have a relaxing bedtime routine set up, a soothing bath, drink of milk and quiet time with a story, then put him in his own bed, say goodnight to him and leave the room... he will prolly scream and cry and be up and down for hours the first week or so so be prepared for this... when he gets out of his bed, take him back to his bed, do not speak, do not make eye contact, do not cuddle or fuss him, there is nohing wrong like you said and you are not being a bad parent by doing this.. it is called "rapid return.. be prepared at the outset to do this ALOT of times, (one night with my son it was 35times!!) do this EVERY time he gets out of his bed, if he stays in his bed but cries, scream etc, ignore him (unless you know he has hurt himself obviously) he will soon realise that this behaviour is NOT acceptable and within about 2 weeks you will all be getting a good nights sleep in your own beds!

also a god idea is to have a sticker chart if he is old enough to understand how it works, he gets a sticker for spending the WHOLE night inhis own bed and a big cross if he dosnt... once he "earns" 3 stickers in one week he gets a treat (something small if you chose a toy or sweets, or a trip to the park, something he enjoys anyway!) once he has hit the 3 sticker target 3 times up the anti to four stickers in one week... and so on and so forth


good luck xx
Your baby might be starting to suffer from night terrors. My little nephew did - but his brother didn't. Some kids just have it.

I lived with their family for 6 months, and just about every night, we were woken by terrified screaming. His mom or dad used to just get in bed with him and hold him until he fell back asleep. They didn't usually leave because they were asleep too.

I guess that's what families are all about - just being there for eachother.

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