Yeah my son is 14 and when he wakes up I carry him out to the truck and we drive around till he falls asleep. Works every time.
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He is on solids. We do the cereal before bed but it doesn’t do anything really. I want to try and let him do the cry it out thing.
Good luck . . . our two are 19 and 22 . . . hard to remember all of those middle of the night wake up cries. But I do seem to wake up worrying about them almost as much now though.
hate to break it to you, but just when you think he 'gets it', it will change again. And again, and again.
As others have said, letting him learn to self-sooth is important. We were given one of those creepy video monitors and didn't really use it much, but we did eventually realize that it had a benefit. We'd turn the volume off, so if our son was crying enough to be heard from the other room, it'd wake us up, but we couldn't hear him every time he turned over. If he was crying we'd turn on the video and could see if he was up and awake, rolling around, settling back down, etc. and that gave us the ability to judge if we needed to actually go in and see him or not. Overcoming the 'but what if something is really wrong' is the hardest part, really.
But again, it will change again and again. Our son was a great sleeper for a long time, then would decide someone needed to be in the room with him and would wake us up multiple times a night. Now we are in a cycle where he wakes up at 4 am and is just awake. It wouldn't be too big a deal if he didn't feel the need to wake me up to tell me and ask be questions like 'have you seen my lego monster truck'...
As others have said, letting him learn to self-sooth is important. We were given one of those creepy video monitors and didn't really use it much, but we did eventually realize that it had a benefit. We'd turn the volume off, so if our son was crying enough to be heard from the other room, it'd wake us up, but we couldn't hear him every time he turned over. If he was crying we'd turn on the video and could see if he was up and awake, rolling around, settling back down, etc. and that gave us the ability to judge if we needed to actually go in and see him or not. Overcoming the 'but what if something is really wrong' is the hardest part, really.
But again, it will change again and again. Our son was a great sleeper for a long time, then would decide someone needed to be in the room with him and would wake us up multiple times a night. Now we are in a cycle where he wakes up at 4 am and is just awake. It wouldn't be too big a deal if he didn't feel the need to wake me up to tell me and ask be questions like 'have you seen my lego monster truck'...
HOLY F*** NO DO NOT DO THIS.
WTF is wrong with you, man??? This kid is 10 months old.
Jesus H....
Correct. 3 or 4 years is when it might be considered.
I’ll go delete that. My bad
14? Is he not getting too heavy to be carrying around?
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Decades ago we had one that wanted to sleep all day and stay awake at night so one day I held him and every time he tried to nod off I'd nudge or move him and keep him awake. It worked, he was kept awake all day and began sleep all night from then on.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing lol. I have a brother in law and sister in law that have been doing melatonin since their kids were like less than 1 year old. Kids don’t go asleep without it now. I think it’s child abuse.
