Waking at Night: Puppets
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Toddler (2.5 Years Old) Having Night Terrors...
Asked by F.M. from San Diego
on August 12, 2008
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I'm writing on behalf of my sister, who lives in Alaska and is still on dial-up internet (no broadband access way out there) and asked me to post for her. She is havi...
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- My husband had night terrors as a child and still to this day sits up in bed and yells at someone or something and then goes back to sleep, unlike me who's awake for a...
- My daughter has had night terrors before...but, as I understand from our doctor and from reading about them, night terrors are something that a child doesn't remember....
- hi F. sorry, my attempt to answer took off. It sounds like she is having nightmares, not night terrors, with night terrors, they usually wake up rested and don't remem...
6 Month Old Waking Several Times at Night
Asked by A.D. from Kansas City
on January 29, 2007
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My 6 month old baby will go to bed with no problems, just put him down and he will fall asleep on his own around 9 PM, the problem is he still wakes up several times a...
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- seriously try teh rice cereal. my dd was on teh AR lipil which has the added cereal in it when i quit nursing and i switched to the next step lipil a few weeks ago and...
- hI A., aT SIX MONTHS OLD? iS SHE EATING ANY CEREAL BEFORE BED? iS SHE WAKING TO EAT? IF SHE IS, SPOON FEED HER HER FIRST EREAL, BEGIN WITH RICE AND USE IT FOR...
- My son slept all night long till about 6 months then he woke up a few times at night. Now that we are one we have our good nights and a few bad. I have gave tylenol t...
2 Yr Old Afraid of Shadows...
Asked by M.H. from Cincinnati
on June 22, 2008
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Lately, my DD, who will be 2 next month, has been talking about shadows and how she is afraid of them. My husband and I used to make shadow puppets when she first disc...
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- We had the same problem with our oldest when she was around that age - and her fear also started because my husband did shadow puppets with her. What worked for me w...
- Hurray for Linda G! She's the only one who believed it might be real. Please don't dismiss your daughter's fears as irrational. Linda is right - and I have first ...
- It just a phase that kids go through. Their imagination is working overtime. The best you can do is reasure her that everything is okay and that you won't let anything...
My 4 Year Old Little Girl Having Nightmares and WILL Not Sleep in Her Own Bed...
Asked by L.D. from Charlotte
on March 17, 2008
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Like I said I have a 4 year old little girl and she says she has nightmares at least 3 to 4 times a week and we have tried all kinds of things like having water in a s...
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- L., I have to disagree with the whole monster spray nonsense. By doing that you're feeding the idea that there ARE monsters. My daughter has also said she's afraid of ...
- If you have room, put a mattress on your bedroom floor and have her sleep on that. That way she gets used to sleeping "on her own" but she's closer to you. And she w...
- Hi L., I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old. I co-slept with both of my children and then we've done a variety of sleeping arrangements in the past 5.5 years. Our...
Bath Time Is No Fun - Help Bring Back the Smiles
Asked by L.A. from Seattle
on April 12, 2008
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Help I need suggestions - this last week bath time has become a nightmare with my 2 year old daughter (28 months)- there are tears and screaming and grabbing. I'm not...
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- My daughter did the same thing around 18 months, my mom told me to try playing in the tub with no water and in our clothing with her bath toys, then slowly I started t...
- Have you tried a sink bath? My girls used to love it when they were smaller. They got to sit on the bathroom counter, with me right there of course, and put their fe...
- Maybe you have tried this but I have found the best thing to do is get in the tub with her. My daughter has twin girls about year and a half and we had a similar prob...
Loss of Sleep
Asked by V.A. from Tulsa
on February 15, 2007
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I have a 4 year old daughter that had her tonsils and adnoids taken out a week and half ago. This past weeks she has been very spoiled. She will not stop crying and...
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- It's time to get things straight with her. She knows how to manipulate the house now. So you start with Choices as in "you can choose to ask for something nicely and...
- I would definatley talk to her dr... I had a friend whose Son had the same thing done to him when he was 3-4... He was the same, and have been sort of angry since.. He...
- I completely agree with Tracy here!! Also, is she taking any medication? If so, it could be that she's experiencing some side effects. A week and a half after surgery...
13 Month Old Keeps Waking Up!
Asked by E.S. from New York
on April 9, 2008
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Recently, my 13 month old son has been waking up in the middle of the night screaming. Nothing we do comforts him. Last night, you couldn't even hold him, he kept st...
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- E. See if he remembers it in the morning. My son woke up like that many times but in the morning he did not remember it. If so what the doctor told me to do was giv...
- Hey E., Has he ever had an ear infection before? Only reason why i ask is because this is exactly what used to happen to our daughter...she would wake in the middle ...
- Yup,I had them with my daughter. They started when she was about 15 months old. They are called night terrors. My doctor had told me that I could try a dose of bena...
18 Month Old Fights the Breathing Treatment
Asked by E.L. from Chicago
on October 7, 2008
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Ever since my sons first cold, he has been wheezing. Everytime he gets a cold it goes straight to his lungs. (We always seem to have a check up right when he gets a co...
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- The first time we had to give my son a nebulizer treatment was a complete nightmare, but we worked through it by trying to make it less scary...we wore the mask and ac...
- We've actually had pretty good luck when we let our little one chew on the plastic mouth piece versus using the mask. I think the mask scared her more than anything. A...
- My son, who is now 5 years old, hated to do the nebulizer treatments. He would fight and cry. We had a fish mask from the doctors office and I would call it the "fis...
My 6 Month Old Will Not Let My Husband Hold Her
Asked by L.S. from Atlanta
on January 6, 2010
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I'm having a major problem with my DD and her refusal to go to practically anyone but me. My kids go to a babysitter four days a week while I work and she does great ...
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- I have always heard that when they are going through this, that Dad just sits and hums or rubs her leg (if she will let him) as you rock her at night. Or, during the ...
- It is a bit of an age thing, I think. I also think that pumping and giving the hubby the bottle to feed her will eventually work--but only if you leave the premis...
- At least it's not just your husband -- she screamed with other family members, too! I would suggest to your hubbie that he try being close to her but not try to hold ...
Monsters in the Bedroom
Asked by A.P. from Dallas
on July 20, 2008
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My 3 year old son is having BIG issues with monsters at night. Woke up 2 nights ago screaming. He was crying and shaking by the time I got to him. Said that there wa...
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- Well we always have told the truth in our home and even in the case of all the pretend scary stuff honesty seems to have worked. I really tried to explain and teach th...
- What I have done with my daughter who is also quite imaginative is tell her to say to the monsters "monster.. you go home!! Your mommy is worried about you and you nee...
- I have a family friend who had her husband and son plan a "monster hunt." They put on camoflauge and her husband got a big trash bag (empty). He had their son stand ...
