Getting Baby to Sleep through the Night

Sound sleep can become elusive, and doubly precious with little ones in the house. Here's how BabyZone moms helped their babies learn to sleep through the night.

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My daughter was sleeping through the night around eight weeks old. I made sure to keep the lights dim and the noise volume low. However, her Dad was working a third shift, so it was much easier to keep her on a consistent schedule.

She is six months old now and no longer sleeps through the night. She wakes up around 2 in the morning and goes back to sleep until about 7 or 8. I have to feed her once a night, but I guess it could be worse. She goes to bed just fine, but she never sleeps past 1 or 2. After I feed her a bottle, she falls right back to sleep and that's when I get most of my rest.

Amber Nicole

My son is 9.5 months old and has never slept through the night. He loves to cry and always wants to be held. My husband and I try to not hold him yet he will continue to cry for hours if we don't. He typically goes to bed around 8-8:30 but does not stay in his bed. He will wake up from a dead sleep and sit straight up in his bed and holler for us. we don't know what to do..

melanie landry

Bath, boob, bed. Every night. She sleeps from 9 PM to 6 AM.

Candace Judson

I think it is important to not judge what methods parents use. Every baby is unique. Every family has their own unique needs. I tried the Sears method and recently switched to the Ferber (CIO) method. I have to say that it worked in less than two nights with only 20 minutes of crying. He is a much happier baby throughout the day. My baby was not getting the sleep he needed. I am a fan of both methods and I believe that it was the right thing for us to do at this time. He is now three months old.

Colleen

My son was about eight months old before he slept through the night. The older he got, the more he woke up instead of sleeping better. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. For two nights in a row I listened to him cry for about 30 minutes when he woke up. The second night was the harder of the two. But the third night and every night after that he has slept through the night. Now he is two and I have a three-month-old daughter who is doing good so far. It was so hard to listen to my baby cry; I felt like the worst mom ever, and my husband had to remind me why we were doing it but it helped to get him to sleep through the night. At eight months there is really no reason for a healthy baby to be waking up besides habit anyway.

Jen

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