Help my 16 mo old keeps waking up crying

[isabellasmommy]

Pls help, my 16 mo old keeps waking up crying and doesnt stop till she gets into our bed. How do i stop this terrible habit!! I cant let her cry and cry cause we have a new born baby who lives in the flat above us and the lady in the next door flat is expecting anyday. Feel bad because i know they all can hear her.
Any ideas about how we can get her to start sleeping through the night again.

I would try co-sleeping for a bit. If she's having an insecure phase the comfort at night time can make all the difference.

Watching with interest as have exactly same problem with DD 17 months. Was up from 11.30 til 4am last night. I ended up taking her down stairs as she was in a temper as wanted to play. She wouldn't even settle in my bed.
She is now a tired grumpy girl, as is mummy.

Hi!
Have triplet 7 yr old DDs and 15 month old DD. Have a few suggestions.

Going to bed with a really full tummy.

I have found that loading them up with carbs at tea time eg. pasta, then persuading them to have a some banana or plain biscuits and milk before bed can help prevent waking.

The weather is all over the place at the moment so keeping them warm or cool enough.

I currently add a blanket on them when I go to bed as heating is still on when they are first tucked in but of course goes off at night.

My youngest goes to bed with a lulaby CD on low in her room and that is set to repeat so that she hears it if she wakes up in the night and it then sooths her back to sleep. I use this CD whenever she uses her cot for sleep and it is amazing how quickly she settles now.

Taking them in with you is a short term answer but I try to stay in DD's room for as long as it takes so that the problem is resolved there. I have been known to set up for the night next to the cot rather than bring into my bed, as with 4 kids our bed just isn't big enough!

Hope things sort themselves out soon.

have the same problem with DS 17 months, wonder if this is a universal phase! He was always a great sleeper. I think they are getting more aware at this age, so when they wake up they actually go through a mental process of thinking 'I am alone. Mummy is not here. Where the +++ is she? I need her right now!'

I find big dinner, lots of physical play in the day and a lunchtime nap of not more than 90 mins, long tiring bath all help but sometimes it doesn't work. Once he's awake if it's 5 ish he will scream until taken into our bed and CC doesn't work, but it does work at 3 am..

oh dear! Good luck to other sufferers!

Hello All, i had great success last night, she slept from 8:30 till 7:30 without waking up once. I thought about the insecure phase and her realising im not there so all i did was put her two biggest teddies in the cot with her so she felt like she was inbetween my h and i, it seems to have worked but we will only know if it happens again tonight so hold thumbs...