My wife and I have been very solid on making sure we don't start bad habits with our daughter. We trained our daughter to sleep in her individual crib about the age of 4 months as we have a nest cam for her to hear and see her. As she got older, she became good in sleeping throughout the night as she will be down by 8:30pm and up around 5am which is the time I get her ready to drop her off at my mother's house. Last few weeks she has been waking up in the middle of the night crying and I realized that she wants to sleep in our bed. When I attend to her in the middle of the night, she is crying and throwing a fit looking at the door like she is giving me a hint as I'm not going to stop crying until we leave her room. When I take her in our bed, within seconds of her facing touching our bed, she starts falling asleep. We asked around for some advised and they would tell us to feed her a little more heavy at night or don't attend to her instantly at night but just to let her cry for about 5 to 10 minutes. Heavy feeding did nothing and letting her cry maybe worked once as she put herself to sleep. A little background on her sleeping habits as were, with my mother, she does struggle to nap as she will nap maybe like 20 to 30 minutes around 9am and 2pm. My mother as told me that she only successful on napping is when she is on her bed but once placed in her playpen, she will last minutes. We even bought a mattress for her playpen which helps her sleep those 20 to 30 minutes. She also has a sleepover with my in-laws which they would let her sleep in their bed but that's once a week. My wife had to put her foot down about sleeping on their bed and that our daughter needs to sleep in her own crib as they have a crib for her at their home. My wife and I are struggling with sleep and feel like we are losing this war and are giving in to letting her sleep in our bed. Any suggestions or ideas? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2oYH1eC
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