12 month old boy up at night for no reason dry just wants in mybed. Is he too young to let cry?
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At 12 months he's now reached an age where he's very capable of figuring out cause and effect. He cries, you take him to your bed. Illnesses definitely have a way of throwing off the best of routines, but continuing the practice will only start a very bad habit. I'm talking from experience as we carried out the same practice with our now 12 yr old son and he ended up in our bed every single night until he was 6-1/2 yrs old. It let to many torturous years of sleeplessness for us. We didn't do that with our other three children and they've always been great sleepers. It's up to you to decide where he sleeps and he'll learn to sleep there.
No, he's not too young to let cry - but it also won't hurt him to sleep with you.
YES, MOM, YOU ARE BUILDING A POTENTIAL MONSTER HERE AND I BELIEVE YOU KNOW IT. PLEASE JUST KEEP PUTTING HIM BACK IN HIS OWN BED UNTIL HE GETS THE MESSAGE.
i don't think that there is anything wrong with letting a baby cry for a little while considering his age.since he was just sick and he was getting extra attention he needs to get wing him off of sleeping with you.
he's not too young. if you don't want him sleeping in your bed with you all of the time you have to put your foot down. let him cry for a while, and if he won't fall asleep go into his room to comfort him. don't let him come to your bed. it's tempting to let him sleep with you because then you can sleep too, but it's not worth having to break him of the habit later. best not to let the habit start at all.
My Sister and her Husband separated when my Niece was around 10+ months old. It was so easy for my Sister to let her Baby sleep with her and it made my Sister feel better to have her close by.
This was wrong and it ended up making my life and her Babies life, hell for a while.
My Sister became ill with a kidney disease and had to go into the Hospital. She had a treatment and in time was released with the understanding that she wouldn't be able to care for her child for a year possibly two years.
This is were I came in the picture, I was married with two children of my own and at the time I didn't work. Of course I would be willing to help my Sister therefore her Baby came to live with us. Oh did I mention my husband? No way was he going to allow any children to sleep with us.
Long story short, it took two very long hard nights to get her Baby to sleep by herself and it wasn't pleasant. The Baby in a crib and I was on the floor next to her. After that there were a few nights here and there, that she woke in the night and cried for a little while, nothing like the first two nights.
The moral to the story is that you just never know what could happen and you don't want to start something that someone else will have to deal with. It was horrible for my Niece to be away from her Mom on top of having to sleep in a bed by herself.
My niece did end up living with us for over a year and it really hurt to give her back to her Mom.
I feel for you. My baby just turned one and won't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. I am up 3 to 4 times a night with him with him awake for at least an hour between 4 and 6. I think they are too young to let cry it out. My husband dissagrees with me. I think it is up to you. I personally can't let my baby cry. He gets too upset and gets to gagging he cries so hard. Best of luck with it. Hopefully with your son it is a temporary problem and he will go back to his normal sleeping pattern soon.
if he is falling asleep once he gets in ur bed, he got what he needed... a little love from mama... dont deny him that... if its been a few weeks after his cold, and he is still doing it every night... and now wanting to play... now thats a different story... enjoy ur baby while u can
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