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Some Soylentils have managed to reproduce, so this study, which has findings on how to keep the young ones keep sleeping through the night, might be useful.
Overall, studies indicate that 15 to 20 percent of one to three year olds continue to have nightwakings. According to Stephanie Zandieh, M.D., Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Apnea Center, The Valley Hospital, "Inappropriate sleep associations are the primary cause of frequent nightwakings. Sleep associations are those conditions that are habitually present at the time of sleep onset and in the presence of which the infant or child has learned to fall asleep. These same conditions are then required in order for the infant or child to fall back to sleep following periodic normal nighttime arousals."
Sleep associations can be appropriate (e.g., thumb sucking) or problematic (e.g., rocking, nursing, parental presence). "Problematic sleep associations are those that require parental intervention and thus cannot be reestablished independently by the child upon awakening during the night," adds Dr. Zandieh.
Here are some helpful tips to help your child sleep through the night:
Every child is different, but the techniques seem sensible and worth trying, such as giving them a security blanket (or teddy bear, etc) when being put to bed to signal it's time to sleep.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday January 04 2017, @12:07AM
<sarcasm>Apparently, there was a time when soothing syrup for children wasn't only alcohol- and sugar-based. It also was laced with cocaine. A blast of cocaine would tranquilize even the most colicky child. That seems to be the solution.</sarcasm>In all seriousness, once a child gets beyond a certain age, beyond the need for nightly feedings, a child simply needs to be left alone to go back to sleep. As for the parents, they can wear ear plugs.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday January 04 2017, @12:15AM
cocaine would tranquilize
Times change, don't they? These days it's thought of as a stimulant.
Cocaine speeds up your whole body. You may feel full of energy, happy, and excited.
-- https://medlineplus.gov/cocaine.html [medlineplus.gov]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @01:21AM
I'm pretty sure that was a typo. The syrup contained "codeine" not "cocaine".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @10:51AM
I'm pretty sure that was a typo. The syrup contained "codeine" not "cocaine".
Pretty sure the typo was "Laudanum", or Tincture of Opium, a parent's best friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Wednesday January 04 2017, @02:13AM
Unfortunately some people live in an environment where they do not have this luxury. Hard for a person living in an appartment to do this when they have a neighbor that will hit the wall with a broom, or where they have to share a room with the baby. My personal situation is living with an alzheimers grandmother as a caretaker. A night crying baby sends her into fits/you can imagine. I didn't have an issue getting mine to sleep through the night (by eight months) but there are a lot of parents who have their abilities hampered.
Sure they could have waited until they lived somewhere good, but boomers could have also not ruined our economy.
Best method, I feel, is the:
1. Put them in their rooms
2. When they cry make them wait 5 min then go in to southe
3. Repeat process with interval steadily increasing
4. Eventually they get the picture.
Took my wife and I three solid weeks of this, but we also had twins and said dementia grandmother. It really depends on the child as well, I lucked out in that one of mine was very easy to train. I think one of them has woken up in the night three times since then and the other probably five or six, they just turned two. Getting them to go down can be more difficult. My kids don't sleep well when I put them to bed but sleep fine if its mom or my mom, but they also have severe separation issues with me in the day so whatever.
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