how do you get a 1year old to sleep in her crib all night?
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Good luck. My son is 12 months old and won't sleep in his crib at all! I started to put him on the crib about 6 months and he hated it, but I kept trying. Then finally he would sleep there after hours of trying to stand up, me lying him back down. Then he slept there but a couple of hours later he'd wake up and want to be out of there. I could only handle a couple of nights of this because it was exhausting. So I gave up. Now we have peace and harmony back that he's sleeping with me and my husband. I will get him to his own room when the next baby comes, but in the meantime this is what works for us.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I just wanted to let you know that if your baby sleeps part of the night in the crib, it's better than some of us can do.
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We had this problem when we first moved into our new house. All you gotta do is just not go in there and she will start to fall back asleep. Keep the door closed and get a white noise machine or cd or even get a fan and turn it on high and face it away from her and the noise will help them sleep.
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keep prizes, tell her she will get 1 if she sleeps in her bed for 3 nights.
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dolls, choctlate, candy, or go to the park.
WHen she gets up lay her back down. even if its 50 times a night, she will soon get it that if shes prefectly alright shes not going to get anywhere by standing up and crying... i had to go threw this with my youngest son, it took a week or two of almost pure hell but he got it that he wasnt going to get anywhere... but when we first moved into a new house i sat in his room with him and read a book not out loud but just read, when he got up i laid him back down, and i did this every time he got up, but yet he knew i was right there and that he wasnt alone, i only had to do this like 4 nights in a row, he got to the point where he just went in there and laid down and went right to sleep, the last night i was in the room for like 5 minutes... i was kinda mad to cause it was a really good part of the book and i started to like this quiet uninterrupted time :P
let her cry and go in about every 5-7 minutes to lay her back down (but don't say anything), so she knows that you are still close by....she'll soon learn to put herself to sleep and realize that she is safe even when you're not in sight....an important lesson....makes bedtime so much easier in the future....good luck...
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