usmcwife98

hello .ok i have a 3 year old and we've been having sleep problems its been going on a year now at first i thought it was because her dad left for a depolyment and she was missing him but it never got better when he got back we can't get her to fall asleep till 11 at night i've tryed no naps early naps short naps you name it. she crys like crazy when we try to put her in her bed and tells as shes scared plus its hard to have her screem she shares a room with her 18 month old sister so she has to fall asleep on the couch when she does get into bed theres night were after 3 hours she up and crying and can't go back to sleep i'm so tired sleep does anyone have ideas

thanks

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Melissa

metz72

I know this sounds , but try having her take good naps instead of short or no nap at all. She is probably as tired as you are and when mine are overtired its next to impossible to get them to .

Is it possible to put the 18 month old on the couch to and have the other one in the room so she could scream. We had this problem with my oldest, she never learned how to fall a by herself so whenever she woke up it was screaming all over again. We finally just put her in bed at bedtime and let her scream. Of course we would check to make sure she was ok and would talk to her briefly to reassure her, but did not pick her up. The first few nights were horrible. Who likes to hear their child ? It did get easier especially after she learned we weren't going to give in. It did take a couple of weeks but eventually it did work.

Good luck

chickiepoo

momofbpi

Lets see I have a whole bunch of things ou can try I had one like t hat ofmy triplets.

first we got them on a tight sced. Secondly everynight they got s and johnson and johnsonhave a relaxing lavender soap and we used that then we did a little massage.

we also found that he sound of water soothed him he use to wake with night terrors i found a radio at wallmart that had different type of sounds that was supposed to relax them.

I made sure they didt have any chocolate or anything before bed I use to read to them eveynight. Put them in there rooms and put the sound raido on and that ed .

when it came tomonsters I took s bottle and mixed it with water and food and soap and made the monster goaway s in it and sed thereroom before hand andwe use a nightlight too.

maybe some of those thing wil does she have a special blanket or toy sheneeds to have that would make her feel safer. good luck believe me I went through it for 2year they eventually break te cycle but it takes a while.

Mrs G

USMC - my 3 year old daughter is the same way. She can go from 7 in the am till 2 am some nights, She goes to day care and she gets a good nap, those are the days I have to literally her to go to . If I don't give her a nap...by 8 is is so y she starts ing then she is up till 11 or 12 and is sooo cranky.

I've found that if I get her up really really early...by 6 am, and then give her an early nap...she she goes to bed between 9-11. without being to cranky. But, it's about impossible for me to get her up like that everyday.


Best of luck to you. I just wish I had half the energy my 3 year old has!!!

Victorious

Aww.. no advice just a hug and ers!

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