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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: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday January 04 2017, @03:03PM
Identify the problem.
The problem is the kid can't fall asleep so the parent(s) (well, lets be realistic here, the wife) gets no sleep can't function in society can't go to work or safely drive or whatever. That's the real problem. Its the same as infant bottle feeding at 2am problem but slightly older kids.
My wife and I just phase slept for a while, I got home from work ate dinner went to sleep, she stayed up till like 1am. Then I got up around 1 and she slept till I went to work quite late in the morning.
Kid gets up at midnight, who cares she's up till 1 or 2 and I'm snoring away. Ditto kid gets up at 3am, who cares I've been awake for hours and my wife is snoring.
Everyone gets tons of sleep. Well, maybe not the kid who wakes up at night, but that kinda takes care of itself, doesn't it? Eventually the kids just kinda stopped that wake up stuff.
If they wake up at an inappropriate time, I wouldn't get them riled up by playing baseball with them or going on a hike or blasting music that would wake everyone up, but if they're just unable to sleep, sure sit there do nothing but watch Dad type on a computer, boring as hell and they're asleep again in 15 minutes, or if it takes them three hours I don't much care. I got a great nights sleep, we'll see who wins the competition to stay awake, kid.
There's a meme circulating for decades about one sleep interval per night being both unusual and unhealthy and very recent in human civilization and adults laid quietly or had sex or whatever in the middle of the night naturally, and the only problem with kids doing their natural multi-interval sleep is it wakes up the entire family until they're old enough and disciplined enough to shut the hell up, unless one of the parents is already awake anyway and keeps the kid calm and quiet-ish. I suppose around the savannah campfire it would be have evolutionary useful for a math problem along the lines of "given a tribe number of humans and they're naturally awake for an hour each night randomly, you naturally get a minimum of X tribal adults standing guard for hyenas or WTF". So a kid wakes up and hangs out with the tribes guards for a bit, like whats the problem?