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1. About 10 min before her usual bedtime, prepare her bottle or sippy cups and get jammies on.
2. At bedtime go to the quiet place where you wind her down--I have a rocker in her bedroom.
3. Turn on static (a must as it helps keep babies from waking during the night)
4. Turn on a CD of lulabies (probably not a must, but my kids like it)
5. (If you choose instead of the CD, you can read to DD at this time...we haven't really started that yet, but it's getting close and at 15 mo I know we were reading to DS (now 3). Just turn the cd on when finished reading)
6. Give bottle/cup while rocking
7. When finished drinking, cuddle for no more than 1 song.
8. Give hugs and kisses and say "it's bedtime. goodnight"
9. Place in crib (don't forget the lovie)
10. Exit and close the door.
11. Find something to keep you busy for the next hour.
12. some people say to go in after 5 min and pat your baby, then after 10 more, then 15 more...BUT that just makes my kids more mad. I just let them cry. The first night it took 45 min for her to go to sleep (I did go in after 20 min, but I shouldn't have. The next night took 15 min. The next few nights less than 10 min. After about 5 nights she quit crying completely. (DS had similar results, but I didn't know to try it so he was about 14 months)
We do the same routine at naps, and she goes to sleep in minutes.
During the day, just try to be consistent and don't pick her up when she is screaming. My DS was velcro so I get it. She is old enough to communicate a little and eventually will. My line was "mommy doesn't understand screaming".View Thread



To poop train my son (which did take a lot longer than pee) we did sticker charts toward new toys that he wanted (small things like thomas engines or super hero squad guys--the charts have 25 or so squares). He actually completed the training on his own when we went on vacation. He just decided he wasn't going to go in his pants anymore. Do you still have him in pull ups or is he in underwear? If he's in pull ups, throw them out! It will be messy, but oh well, it will be less pleasant for him, too. My son pooped his underwear 5 days out of 7 for about 5 months while he was completely pee trained. We just kept at it and eventually, he stopped. We would ask him all the time "where do you pee? Where do you poop?" He always answered "in the potty" to both questions even though he was rarely pooping in the potty. This made us think that he just couldn't quite control it yet.
Good luck. And, consider not sending him to kindergarten yet if that is an option.View Thread


Both my kids slept through the night early (9 weeks). And, both started waking often again around 6 months. I think it has to do with teething and learning to do new stuff. Try to get her back to sleep without feeding her. That will develop a habit you don't want to start. Make sure she eats plenty of bottles throughout the day so you can feel confident she doesn't need a nighttime feeding. At nearly 6 months, you can feed her other foods--vegetables, fruit, and even meats are OK around that time. In fact, she'll need a source of iron unless she is on iron fortified formula. Good luck.View Thread




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