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New Post 10/09/2007 5:00 PM
  TracyF
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five year old trouble sleeping 

I can totally sympathise with all parents with children that wont sleep through the night.  My daughter would only sleep for 20 minutes at a time during the day which doesn't give you much time to get anything done.  She didn't really start sleeping through the night until she was about 3 and she would still wake up atleast once then.  She is now 5 and shares a room with her 3 year old sister who slept through the night since she was 4 weeks old.  My problem now is that for the past 3 weeks she wont go to bed unless my husband or myself sit in the room with her.  She had a dream that scared her and is now scared of her bedroom.  This I do understand, her fear is genuine but it is driving my husband and i insane as we are not getting any sleep.  I have tried talking to her and reasuring her, I even bought them both dream catchers but nothing has worked so far.  She wakes 3 to 4 times a night and we sit with her until she goes to bed or she ends up in our bed.  I don't want her to get to comfy in our room though or she will never stay in her own room.  If anyone has any suggestions or similar stories it would really help.
 
New Post 7/10/2007 12:59 AM
  La Toriana
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Re: five year old trouble sleeping 

Tracy.. what a time you are having!

I have a 5 year old...she went through a similar, though not as bad stage.  She was thinking monsters were in her room... having a few bad dreams... a couple weeks saw me more in her room than in my own.  (I never started popping in my bed from day 1, though believe me was so tempting at times!!)

When she finally told me what was wrong we did a couple things that helped her

1. when going to bed... checked everywhere... "nope.. no one here"

2. when she said it was a monster I said... "oh,,, its probably the friendly one"  Proceeded telling her a little white lie... about when I was a little girl, I had a moster in my room... but it was just a friendly one that wanted to play all the time...  Just say... its time to sleep now... we can play later"  she sat wide eyed at the story I spun and has a few things to say now.  Now I never hear about it.

3.  we popped a soft glow night light in her room.  Its one where she can touch and pick up herself... she can turn it on or off and all very safe.  She rearly has it on now...

4.  The other thing I have always done is have some very soft relaxing music on as part of her nighttime ritual... she rearly has it now... mainly if she's hyped up, overtired, sick or the like.... but sure helped to calm her.

I have no real remedies.  these helped us... so could have a try... or maybe someone else may have suggestions??

Elizabeth

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