Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sleep!
What happened?! My sleeping beauty has lost interest in sleeping. The past couple of days and nights it's been complete turmoil during bedtime. Although, she has recently started protesting against naptime; she would still fall asleep no problem. Now, it's a knock down drawn out battle with her. I put her to bed with her normal routine for naptime and bedtime and the minute I walk out the door the screaming fit begins. I just don't know what to do!!! One minute, I feel like I should go up and comfort my baby who is screaming so hard you would swear she was being murdered and the next I tell myself no because the more I go up there the longer this battle is going to last. What to do; what to do?! What happened to my girl who would sleep like it was her job; I miss the days when a 3 hour nap was guaranteed. I can't take the grump who is fighting sleep and fighting with Mama over everything she does. I feel like I need to vent about this because all day today I had Miss Attitude and Miss Defiant. Tonight, it was a long 40 min battle of blood curdling screams, which finally (and I mean finally) ended with silence and hopefully a complete nights rest. I really hope this is temporary and not what I have to look forward to as the Big 2 approaches.
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Oh yes, we too know how you feel. Will goes in stages with the sleep fighting. Right now he's in a put me in my crib I'm ready stage... but I'm sure 2 weeks from now we'll have the screaming again and the 1.5 hour wind down for bedtime. She's just asserting her independence. I just let Will do his thing up there and he gets the idea. I find that if I go up (I do go up to retrieve lovies... he has a distinct lost lovey cry) then it just makes it even worse. Go hang out in the basement or outside while she's freaking out up there, that way you don't have to listen to it and feel bad :) My plants get watered a lot on the days that Will is a mess during naptime and bedtime :)
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