Any ideas how to put a baby to sleep in their own bed?!

Well, this probably won't help you, my boys kept crawling into our bed in the middle of the night-even at 11! Well, we got a Yorkie puppy and pointed out that if they came in our room, they risked stepping in puppy poo! Believe it or not, it worked! They stopped coming in our room. Previously, we tried deducting their allowance each time they came into our room or insisting they slept on the floor. WE do have to leave the light on in the hall for them to sleep in their rooms.

my sn is five and my daughter will be fouin a few days and i still sleep with them. when i want to be with my husband we go to the other room. half the time the wake up calling mummy though

My baby, she will be five months in three days, seem to sleep better in her bed when I turn on a fan that I have in the window. It had been a little cool for a few weeks and I noticed she would not sleep in her crib at nights. I had no problem with her prior, she not only slept there but slept through the entire nite. When it got cool a couple of weeks back and there was no need for the fan she kept waking during the nite and would not sleep except in the bed with me. Last nite it was warm and I turned on the fan. She slept throught the nite again. I am going to watch her and she if its a trend.

This brings back so many memories. My children are older now, but I remember when they slept with me. My son who is 8 now always wanted to sleep with my husband and I, which was a difficult thing. He's a wild sleeper and would knock us both in the head, even in a king size bed. It's best to stop it now, because as they get older they will still want to get in bed with you. We would wait until he went to sleep and take him to his room. When he was a baby, I would just rub his back to comfort him and I also had a mobile over his crib with music. It's hard to ignore your baby, but sometimes you have too as long as nothing is really wrong. If you keep picking her up she will expect it all the time. So, try singing her to sleep, or getting a mobile with lullabies, that usually gets their attention until they fall asleep. My grandson who is 2 and still in a crib cries every night when it's time for bedtime, but he settles down eventually and falls to sleep. Usually this happens because us parents puts them in the bed when they're babies (it comforts us), and they get use to it.

At her age, your daughter understands enought o know that if she continually cries, you will eventually give in and she will get her way. I think that the answer is to answer her cries, but not to pick her up. Take a little longer each time to go check on her, unless of course there is something wrong. When you do go in to check on her, tell her she is okay, lay her back down, tuck her in, tell her good-night and walk away. Make the encounter brief and do not pick her up. After a little while, she will elarn how to soothe herself when she wakes in the middle of the night.

I have the same problem. My son is almost 1 and he still wakes up almost every 3 hours at night and I have to get him back to sleep, he doesn't fall asleep by himself. So please let me know if you find a solution that works for you.

The good idea for that is to play any lullaby musics. Glow in the dark images where she will find it fun. It will helps her fall asleep. I may not be a mother yet but I have took care newly born until 5 years old kids. Put her in her crib and stay with her for a while and sing some sleepy music by just humming . Then, that is when you play a lullaby music.

I'm nearly always the voice of dissent in conversations about getting children to sleep in their own beds. I read The Family Bed just before my oldest daughter was born. In it, the author wondered why we felt this need to put our babies in cages far away from us while they slept, and that image stayed with me forever. My children always had their own beds, but they were welcome to sleep in mine until they were ready to move out on their own. I know that it's considered "spoiling" the child, but I think it was me that got spoiled. I didn't have to get out of bed to feed or soothe a baby, didn't have to stay up for hours trying to put a baby back to sleep so I could go back to bed.. I just tucked him in next to me and we all got a good night's sleep. As they got older, they made a point of sleeping together in the same bed for a while, and eventually, when they started valuing their privacy, moved to their own beds without any fight on my part. It may not work for everyone, but it worked wonders for our family.

As hard as it may seem, the best solution is to let her cry. You can start with just a few minutes a night and work your way up. Babies need to learn to self sooth. My baby cries occasionally, but she is 8 months old and sleeps through the night on her own. We also play classical music.