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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @01:10AM
Every pediatrician will tell you not to do that (if one does then find a better pediatrician). Melatonin isn't even legal in every country. Getting a kid's body hooked on externally sourced melatonin is an excellent way to fuck them up for the rest of their life (modern society doesn't tolerate sleep disorders at all). Your body doesn't bother producing what it has available nor maintaining those production systems. Look at the vitamin studies: people who constantly take vitamins lose the ability to extract those same vitamins from the food they eat. This effect will be amplified when those systems are just starting to be developed. Babies don't have synchronized circadian rhythms when they're born. They need to learn how to fall asleep and this study helps to confirm that.