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I see you are back, thank god for that. Welcome back and i have no idea about your question as my little one slept all night from 5 weeks of age, hah sorry to add that bit........ Hope you are doing well

thanks.. i'll explain some things to you on a different post! Lucky you that your lo slept through the night so early! I'm jealous!

not a problem, just wanted to say its good to have you back... i wanted to ask though what happens when he wakes up, hunger or just mucks around ?

he just cries... he is sitting up in his bed crying. If one of us goes to try and reassure him he wants to be picked up. the only thing that calms him is if one of us climbs in bed with him. I've tried leaving him a bit to cry.. but he ends up screaming. :(

I wish I had the right words for you, but my DD did that for a bit, but she was in her pac-n-play in our room (still is) she was a co-sleeper. Once she knew that being by herself she wasn't really alone she figured it out and now if she wakes we sure don't know it. Try not getting in bed with him just putting you hands on him rubbing his back, leaning over so they can smell you....sleep in the same shirt for a few nights and then put him to bed with it.....they sometimes just need you to be near. does this make any sence...lol

Thanks for the advice jilly. I have tried that in the past and as soon as I leave the room he starts hollering again, but I guess I should try it again!

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See I am not a CIO person, I tried for about 1/2 hour one day and that was enough for me. She didn't resposed good to it at all. So she came back to our room. How long has he been in his own room? How old is he?? I found that it was more the seperation then anything for Brooke. But like I said we co-slept so she is just not ready to go into her room yet....but thank god we have made a smooth tranistion out of the bed so we'll get there.....

I was still nursing Marcy when she got up in the middle of the night. She wasnt' hungry she just wanted Mommy, so I stopped nursing her. She already took a bottle while I was at work so I just would give her the bottle instead. She refused it. (which confirmed my supsitions of her not being hungry.) she would just lay her head on my shoulder and go back to sleep. It made for a long couple of nights cause she would wkke up every time I put her down, but after a couple of nights she got that I wasn't going to nurse her when she got up and she started sleeping through the night again....(she had already done so, but started getting up again at 8 mos, she was 9 mos when we got her to sleep again....) If you feed him when he gets up, try giving him somthing different. If you give formula, give water, if you nurse, give a botltle, whatever. It woked for us cause we knew that was the reson Marcy got up. Good luck

I am grateful that dd has only been waking up once or twice! She used to get up three, four, five times a night. It was really miserable! So if she only wakes up once, that is just the most I can ask for at this point!

Tristan is 19 months. He isn't hungry when he wakes up.. it's just a question of him not wanting to be alone. He's always been like this. He has his own room but one of us always has to go and sleep with him in his room at some point during the night

oh and sorry.. he's been in his own room for a little less than a year.. but like I said.. he always wakes up during the night and one of us always goes and sleeps in a big bed in his room with him. I just want to break the habit!

My ds is still waking up 2-3 times a night and usually all it takes is for one of us (mostly me) to go in there and put the paci back in his mouth. There are times when it takes an hour or more to get him settled back down to sleep and that is sooooo hard! I wonder too if this night waking will ever end?

Some people have told me that their kids didn't start sleeping through the night until they were 5 :( Ugg... I wonder if anyone managed to find something that works. I've given up on him not waking.. i'd just like him to learn to fall back sleep without us...

All I can thin of is you either keep sleeping with him every night or hes going to have to do cio. You could wait til hes older and can understand that you cant sleep with him every night. But with cio it should only take a few nights it will get worse before it is better but within a week they usually learn to get themselfs back to sleep. All kids wake between 2-3 times a night if they don not learn to fall back asleep on their own then they rely on whatever method you guys provide. Hope that helps. Good luck