Not STTN?

emoxymoose · November 2013

My son is 17 months and still wakes up 1-2x a night, sometimes I'll give him a bottle, sometimes he'll just need to be patted to go back to sleep. It doesn't really bother me, as I'm so used to it, but everyone around me, even his pedi acts so surprised. Just wondering how common it is among all of you? Thanks!

Jenelle101 · November 2013

My son is only 13 months, but he doesn't STTN.. actually he sometimes is up quite often. He's teething now, and I think that's the main reason (darn molars!), but my daughter didn't regularly sleep through the night until she was two!!! She still wakes up sometimes with night terrors... I guess that's just the way her body works.

Jessica+Penny · November 2013

My daughter is 19 months old and still wakes up 1-2 times a night too. She is breastfed and I do nurse her back to sleep, though sometimes I can pat her back or sing to her a little and get her back asleep. I'm okay with the situation right now so we aren't changing anything. She is my only child right now and I'm a SAHM so I kinda roll with it.

JENandJEH · November 2013

My oldest started STTN at 2 and DS2 STTN maybe 4 nights a week? Neither of them ate in the middle of the night past a year but usually they needed their paci or someone to cover them up. I think it's fairly normal for them to wake and you just have to figure out what you are ok with doing for them when they wake. We try to minimize interaction during night wakings...we go in, find the paci or blanket and then leave. In and out quickly. I would be worried about the bottle, like PP mentioned, simply because of the effects on his teeth.

Starbear06 · November 2013

DS started STTN when he was 1. Now he's 16 months and has regressed to waking up 1-2x night crying. But he hasn't got up to eat since turning 1.

aboynamedbarry · November 2013

I don't think my DD has ever truly sttn, however, she doesn't eat in the motn and hasn't for a long time (she's 21 mos) and its not that she doesn't ask. She often is asking for milk and crackers, but the answer is always no, you can have breakfast when its morning, its still nightnight you need to go back to sleep. More often than not when I hear her awake I don't even go in, and that is something that developed over the course ofseveral months of cconsistency

anna&jl2011 · November 2013

My DS is 18 months old and doesn't sleep through the night. He was breastfed for 12 months but quit nursing at night around 6 months old. Majority of the time he has been rocked to slept and occasionally has slept through the night but not very often. He wakes up wanting me at night and has recently been sleeping in the bed with us. I finally decided to try sleep sense solution. It cost me $19 and I figured it was worth a try. We can't handle the CIO thing and so we are doing a sitting a chair in the room. Last night was the first night and it wasn't easy but we are going to keep trying.

mb314 · November 2013

DS is almost 14 months. He wakes up several times. He usually wakes up about two to three hours after I put him to sleep, and I try to get him back to sleep in his crib. I nurse and rock him back to sleep. When he wakes up again, I'm usually already in bed or should be in bed, so I bring him to bed with me. Because we co-sleep most of the night, I don't know how often he wakes. I would say we average 3 wakeups a night, and I usually nurse him back to sleep.

citymama2012 · November 2013

The truth is, all of your children are CAPABLE of putting themselves back to sleep in the middle of the night on their own, you just have not yet taught them how to do that. If you go into the room and give them a bottle, rock them, or other external soothing mechanism, they do not develop the skills to self soothe. At 17 months, your child certainly doesn't need the calories from the bottle, the sucking action is just calming. If you don't mind, then keep doing it. Personally I really value sleeping through the night and think it's important for even very young children to learn this important skill.

acbfreire · November 2013

DD has very agitated sleep. She wakes up often and I nurse her back to sleep. I am not comfortable with CIO and I did not sleep train her.
Do what works for you. My DH did not STTN until much later, so I guess she gets it from him..

singingirl96 · November 2013

citymama2012 said:

The truth is, all of your children are CAPABLE of putting themselves back to sleep in the middle of the night on their own, you just have not yet taught them how to do that. If you go into the room and give them a bottle, rock them, or other external soothing mechanism, they do not develop the skills to self soothe. At 17 months, your child certainly doesn't need the calories from the bottle, the sucking action is just calming. If you don't mind, then keep doing it. Personally I really value sleeping through the night and think it's important for even very young children to learn this important skill.

This. My son goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 7:30. It's glorious. We sleep trained at 8 or 9 months though. Best thing I ever did.

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