I'm getting desperate here... we were totally out of our routine for the past 2 weeks traveling, but now we're home... and I need some tips on getting Tatum sleeping through the night. I am open to any and all suggestions... Please tell me what you did to help your baby sleep through the night!

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Yeah what's the :secret:

I will say that for a while I think swaddling in a Swaddle Me blanket helped Jack...but I'm not sure at this age it would work. (But that tip is for others who might read this thread.)

I would say just be consistant and try to get her back into her routine if it was working before your vacation.

Also, I'm afraid that kids just go through phases where they don't sleep well or stay asleep all night. That's been my experience anyway. Just try to be patient with her.

The one thing that always causes my yougest to wake up is teething. I'd check that first. If there is another tooth coming in, some oragel might soothe her back to sleep.

I still give her a warm bottle of water in the middle of the night. Most of the time she just sleeps with it under her arm, but it helps.

If she can calm herself down with minimal help from you, that is best for everyone but if she wakes and gets too upset (where it's difficult for her to go back to sleep), I'd step in to calm her a bit without picking her up too much or making a big deal of it.

Hang in there. I know it's frustrating to deal with night wakings.

The biggest thing I did with all three boys was stop feeding them when they woke up at night. Typically after a few days they realized it wasn't worth getting up :lol:
During the time when they would wake up and I wouldn't feed them, I would soothe and rock them back to sleep, not fun, not as easy as feeding, but worth it in the long run.
Good luck.

I am so :badwords: crabby today it isn't even funny. I just screamed "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" at the top of my lungs because I don't want to swear in front of the kids. EVERYTHING is pissing me off.

Here's what happened at my house last night:
8:00 ish Graham goes to sleep.
9:00 ish he wakes up and is standing at the side of the crib throwing the blanket around. I pick him up and he goes back to sleep after a few minutes and some bloodcurdling screams.
10:00 ish after I am in bed he wakes up again. I feed him this time because I want him to go the :badwords: to sleep for a while.
11:00 ish he wakes up AGAIN. I'm lazy and tired so I bring him in the bed; he goes to sleep.
I don't know the time but I suspect it is only an hour later he's up again. All through the night he wakes up and starts flopping around like a fish out of water crying and screaming and carrying on like a lunatic. Sometimes I feed him, sometimes I don't. He crawls all around the bed and hits his head on the walls or on me.

This is a common occurrence but last night was particularly bad. I guess I should have doped him up on Tylenol but I was such a :badwords: zombie I didn't even think about it and if I had left the room the puppy would have started barking/whining and woke everyone else up.

Perhaps I should just drug him up every night. I don't know that it is his teeth bothering him because he is fine and not cranky in the daytime.

Anyway :bullhorn: over.

I am so :badwords: crabby today it isn't even funny. I just screamed "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" at the top of my lungs because I don't want to swear in front of the kids.

bev relax, it's 'THESE pretzels are making ME thirsty' :lol2:

that's a sucky night. however i'd change a few things...like not bringing him into your bed and not feeding him at all. he's a year now and shouldn't need to eat at night. it may be time for some tough love (or as i like to say, the smackdown). ie: just going in, do not pick him up, lay him back down and walk out. lather.rinse.repeat. this may involve several nights of hell but it will all be worth it in the end like julie said :nod:

Sorry, clueless here. DD didn't sleep through the night until 18 months. Son did it from 6 weeks old without any pushing from me.

For us, we had to do the whole - don't go in at all thing. I would lay in bed (or sit on the couch depending on if we were still up) and let her squawk for a while. It would only be after an extended period of that where I would go in and check on her. Lots of times, after 20 minutes or so, she settled herself down. Sometimes it would take longer than that. I couldn't have gone in and not picked her up, that would have sended her into full meltdown mode.

This usually happened only occasionally. If she went through a spell of being sick, where I would go and check on her every time she woke up (i.e. - meaning sick w/ fever, etc) after her illness was over, she would expect the same treatment she got when she was sick. So we usually had one night where we had to listen to her cry for a good amount of time before she would settle herself down. But once we did that, we didn't hear from her the next night.

butting in.... what age do you think they can stopping eating at night? thanks-0

bev relax, it's 'THESE pretzels are making ME thirsty' :lol2:

that's a sucky night. however i'd change a few things...like not bringing him into your bed and not feeding him at all. he's a year now and shouldn't need to eat at night. it may be time for some tough love (or as i like to say, the smackdown). ie: just going in, do not pick him up, lay him back down and walk out. lather.rinse.repeat. this may involve several nights of hell but it will all be worth it in the end like julie said :nod:
So that's where I'm going wrong. It's not 'these PRETZELS are making me THIRSTY.' :lol:

The smackdown is this Friday when Patrick will be downstairs with him all night and I am upstairs with the puppy and Mason. I know the eating is only for comfort. I am such a tough guy at work but I hate listening to either of the boys cry at night (well not Mason anymore) when I can go help them (although I guess it's not helping them) so that's why Patrick is going to do it when he doesn't have to get up in the morning. I'd cave, I know it.