Help! Bella will not sleep - YorkieTalk.com Forums

rdmartin · 06-15-2004, 07:44 AM

My four month old girl Bella is not a sleeper. She will sleep in two hour segments during the night and then up at 5:30am every morning. When she gets up in the middle of the night she yip, yip, yips at me from the side of the bed and wants to play. She has a very comfortable bed that she will fall asleep in but she just won't stay there. I am so tired at this point from not having a full night of sleep. Anyone with advice???????

Higgin's Mom · 06-15-2004, 07:50 AM

Ya just gotta give up and bring Bella into bed with YOU! She wants to sleep with YOU! Then she'll happily sleep through to 5:30. But I bet she won't sleep much beyond 5:30.....Higgins is an early morning kinda guy. He tiptoes out of bed with his dad and comes bopping up on my bed (we have a stepstool ready for him) and kisses me good morning. Will then settle down for about a half hour of sleep with me and then it's EVERYBODY UP BECAUSE I WANT MY BREAKFAST AND I WANT TO PLAY AND I AM GOING TO KEEP LICKING YOUR FACE AND RUNNING UP AND DOWN YOUR BODY UNTIL YOU WAKE UP!

fasteddie · 06-15-2004, 08:47 AM

Has she always been like this? Perhaps you should try and tire her out before sleep time. Take her for a nice long walk, or let her 'play hard' just before bedtime. Also, if you are not home all day, and all she does is sleep, that probably will make her energized at night and not wanting to sleep.

Junebug · 06-15-2004, 08:08 PM

I'll bet she'll sleep the full night if she's up on the bed with you! But once you start that habit, you can never go back. Beware.

bettyeanne · 06-16-2004, 01:49 AM

We brought Toto home and she slept through the first night like a baby! We made her all comfy in her "sleep" crate sitting on a chest next to our bed, left a little nightlite on where she could see us. The next afternoon we decided on a little afternoon nap. We snugged her in her crate and she would look at us and bark! In one of the books we studied before we got her they advised ... if they do something you don't like ... you, in turn, should do something they don't like such as tap on their crate with something metal. [They don't like the sound!] I took a little metal curtain rod and every time she barked I would tap and tell her "no" [not whack, just a little tap!] After about six little taps and she never did it again [she also began to learn that if we said "no" that she was doing something that she should not do] ... however ... over time ... she and I got into the habit of snuggling up together and watching TV on our bed and Patrick would tuck her in her crate when he came to bed ... then .... she would be sleeping so peacefully he couldn't bear to disturb her .... then ... one thing led to another and ... YEP ... she sleeps with us every single night!!

It's amazing that we don't squash her but I suppose we are just always "aware" that she is there even when we sleep!!

She has a little wicker footstool at the foot of our bed and if she needs to go potty during the night she just gets up on her own like a "big girl" and goes to her weewee pad in her x-pen and never disturbs us at all!!

We solved the sleep problem and also, she learned that we didn't like the loud barking so she evidently wanted to please us and quit doing it altogether!! She never barks unless it's appropriate. If she isn't sure or "forgets", I simply look her in the eye and tell her "no loud barking ... we have to use our inside voice" and she begins to "talk" in her little baby Yorkie voice as if she understands perfectly!! She is absolutely AMAZING!!!

bettyeanne · 06-16-2004, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Higgin's Mom

Ya just gotta give up and bring Bella into bed with YOU! She wants to sleep with YOU! Then she'll happily sleep through to 5:30. But I bet she won't sleep much beyond 5:30.....Higgins is an early morning kinda guy. He tiptoes out of bed with his dad and comes bopping up on my bed (we have a stepstool ready for him) and kisses me good morning. Will then settle down for about a half hour of sleep with me and then it's EVERYBODY UP BECAUSE I WANT MY BREAKFAST AND I WANT TO PLAY AND I AM GOING TO KEEP LICKING YOUR FACE AND RUNNING UP AND DOWN YOUR BODY UNTIL YOU WAKE UP!

Toto is an early riser too! My fault .... insomnia ... but all she wants to do is snuggle up in "yellow blankie" on my lap and sleep until she hears Papa waking up and then it's "every man for himself"!!

She leaps on the bed and right up on his stomach and she will look all around as if to say "Look at meee .... I'm the Queen of the World!!"

Then everybody gets a bzillion puppy kisses!!

She is tooo funny ... with her own little morning "rituals" just like her humans!! She isn't too hard on us until we have our first cup of coffee!!

fasteddie · 06-16-2004, 06:21 PM

Yup, once any dog starts sleeping on YOUR BED, it's THEIR BED forever!

06-15-2004, 07:44 AM	#1
rdmartin BANNED! Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1	Help! Bella will not sleep My four month old girl Bella is not a sleeper. She will sleep in two hour segments during the night and then up at 5:30am every morning. When she gets up in the middle of the night she yip, yip, yips at me from the side of the bed and wants to play. She has a very comfortable bed that she will fall asleep in but she just won't stay there. I am so tired at this point from not having a full night of sleep. Anyone with advice???????

06-16-2004, 01:49 AM	#5
bettyeanne Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama, etc. Posts: 9,031	We brought Toto home and she slept through the first night like a baby! We made her all comfy in her "sleep" crate sitting on a chest next to our bed, left a little nightlite on where she could see us. The next afternoon we decided on a little afternoon nap. We snugged her in her crate and she would look at us and bark! In one of the books we studied before we got her they advised ... if they do something you don't like ... you, in turn, should do something they don't like such as tap on their crate with something metal. [They don't like the sound!] I took a little metal curtain rod and every time she barked I would tap and tell her "no" [not whack, just a little tap!] After about six little taps and she never did it again [she also began to learn that if we said "no" that she was doing something that she should not do] ... however ... over time ... she and I got into the habit of snuggling up together and watching TV on our bed and Patrick would tuck her in her crate when he came to bed ... then .... she would be sleeping so peacefully he couldn't bear to disturb her .... then ... one thing led to another and ... YEP ... she sleeps with us every single night!! It's amazing that we don't squash her but I suppose we are just always "aware" that she is there even when we sleep!! She has a little wicker footstool at the foot of our bed and if she needs to go potty during the night she just gets up on her own like a "big girl" and goes to her weewee pad in her x-pen and never disturbs us at all!! We solved the sleep problem and also, she learned that we didn't like the loud barking so she evidently wanted to please us and quit doing it altogether!! She never barks unless it's appropriate. If she isn't sure or "forgets", I simply look her in the eye and tell her "no loud barking ... we have to use our inside voice" and she begins to "talk" in her little baby Yorkie voice as if she understands perfectly!! She is absolutely AMAZING!!! __________________ Toto's Mom - http://www.dogster.com/?206581 Yorkie Rescue Colorado - http://www.yorkierescuecolorado.com/ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." -- Albert Einstein

06-15-2004, 07:50 AM	#2
Higgin's Mom YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 852	Ya just gotta give up and bring Bella into bed with YOU! She wants to sleep with YOU! Then she'll happily sleep through to 5:30. But I bet she won't sleep much beyond 5:30.....Higgins is an early morning kinda guy. He tiptoes out of bed with his dad and comes bopping up on my bed (we have a stepstool ready for him) and kisses me good morning. Will then settle down for about a half hour of sleep with me and then it's EVERYBODY UP BECAUSE I WANT MY BREAKFAST AND I WANT TO PLAY AND I AM GOING TO KEEP LICKING YOUR FACE AND RUNNING UP AND DOWN YOUR BODY UNTIL YOU WAKE UP!

06-15-2004, 08:47 AM	#3
fasteddie *YT 6000 Club Member* Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 6,238	Has she always been like this? Perhaps you should try and tire her out before sleep time. Take her for a nice long walk, or let her 'play hard' just before bedtime. Also, if you are not home all day, and all she does is sleep, that probably will make her energized at night and not wanting to sleep.

06-15-2004, 08:08 PM	#4
Junebug *Moderator Emeritus* Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: California Posts: 1,149	I'll bet she'll sleep the full night if she's up on the bed with you! But once you start that habit, you can never go back. Beware.

06-16-2004, 06:21 PM	#7
fasteddie *YT 6000 Club Member* Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 6,238	Yup, once any dog starts sleeping on YOUR BED, it's THEIR BED forever!