Yesterday morning she greeted me at a VERY EARLY 7:30 AM. This may not be early to you but this is super early for our household. I've always prided my little lady on how great she sleeps and how she lets MOM sleep in until atleast until 8:30, sometimes 9. But, it's been slowly changing and I'm okay with that but I'm not okay with her coming in my room at 7:30 and climbing the side of my bed to wake me up. Anyways, that's not really the problem and I have no idea why I just typed all of that.
The problem IS she won't go to sleep anymore without screaming her head off. She wants me or Daddy RIGHT THERE beside her in bed in order to sleep. Now, this wouldn't be a problem IF I didn't have a baby coming in approximately 16 weeks or so and if her bedtime wasn't my only time alone with my husband IF he's not working that night... otherwise, it's my ONLY alone time all day. Well, I do get some breather time during her nap but I'm usually busy doing stuff around the house so I'm not really getting to relax. And really, she just needs to be putting herself to sleep like she's done her whole life. This may be a phase and maybe she's experiencing some separation anxiety or something. I don't know. I've hardly been away from her her whole life so I don't know why she'd be experiencing separation anxiety right now of all times. I'm not convinced that separation anxiety is what it is though because she goes to bed JUST FINE for her nap...and IN her big bed. She lays down, takes her juice (I know, I know) and goes to sleep. We have her windows covered so it's always dark for sleeping no matter the time of day. When she's awake I pull the curtains back so don't think she's in this dark room all day ;-).
Mainly this is all so frustrating because I have no idea what to do. Crying it out seems like a nice approach to me BUT we live in someone else's home for the time being and I know it disrupts the flow of peacefulness. Shoot, it disrupts my peace seeing as how her bedroom door is right beside ours. I don't like letting her cry but some days it's all I can do. Good thing my MIL isn't here ALL the time. She stays at her boyfriend's house quite often so that's nice for us. BUT, I hate hearing her sound so tortured and pathetic. BUT, all that to say, I don't want to create a habit of laying with her until she falls asleep. I know soon I won't have time to do that...or the energy.
This weekend we're going to go purchase her "big girl" bedding so I'm hoping that'll help her feel more cozy in her bed. And I'm going to attempt a new bedtime routine to calm her down before she has to go to sleep. We've never really had a good bedtime routine so I think now is the time. Plus, I think it would be super duper helpful once the baby gets here for her to have that nice and quiet time with us before she goes to bed.
ANYWAYS, anyone have any ideas??
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Well our bedtime routine is pretty easy going, but it has worked wonders for us so far.
6:00 or 6:30 Bath Time
Free Play
7:00 He gets his cup of milk and sits down next to me and we watch Disney or something.
7:30 We read books. Lots of them! :D
8:00 I tell him "Let's go to bed" and he gets up and walks to his room, climbs in and it's lights out.
Of course some nights are different but that is pretty much the way it goes. Every now and then he will fight it, but 9 times out of 10 he just goes right to bed.
HOWEVER I would be SHOCKED if my child slept until 7:30am. He wakes up at 5:00am EVERY SINGLE DAY. Even today when he went to bed at 10:00 the night before. There is no stopping him!
HOpe that helps!
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