we have a little routine, so she knows whats coming. most nights i rock her to sleep in her room with lullaby's playing. some nights she is so fidgity & wiggly it is so frustrating & fills me with negative feelings & i just want to put her down & walk away & leave her crying.
she's 2.....i want this to be easier! & she still wakes at least 2 or 3 (major improvment from 6-7) times most nights. no longer nursing, so that isnt an option!
Bella is almost 2 (April 4th) and I still lay down with her to get her to sleep.
It takes anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour (if she took a late/long nap).
She still wakes up several times a night, but I sleep with her and she goes right back to sleep when she knows I'm there.
DH wants me to stop sleeping with her, but honestly, I like it and I'd rather sleep with her than with him! Long story there...........
Well I know I am a bad bad mama - sut most of the time 2yo DD curls up in the big family bed - king with a twin butted against it - with her sister and sometimes brother and they watch toons or something - but I will give them this - they do pretty well going to sleep on their own - and some nights I just let them lay there and talk to eachother until they go to sleep.
well, part of our routine is watching "funny videos" & chilling out, but when it's time to go up there is usually a struggle from one or both. cole is now sleeping in the queen bed in jc's room. i'd like to get them both sleeping in it & ditch the crib.
We do a "count down" so ten minutes before bed we "announce" "10 minutes till bed time".....then 5,2, and 1 minute.
uh-huh...we do the countdown thing too ......i'm even teaching cole to tell time (on the digital clock) & know when it says "eight zero zero" it's time to go up stairs.
Subbing here also..Sophie isn't completely weaned yet but we are down to bedtime and naptime and that's it. We just made a big deal of buying her a bed of her own and her own bedding..and setting it up, etc. Tonight I asked her if she wanted to sleep in her big girl bed and she emphatically said NO..sooooo..I'll try to nurse her down in our bed and move her if I can.
I want to get her out before I work on how is she goign to sleep w/o nursing..but listening for good tips..been a very long time since I had to do this..we've struggled with Eli for other reasons and now at age 4y 4m he will go into his bed with daddy and lay down..and then Tom just leaves him still awake and he will go to sleep...it was hard to get that to work though! Bathtime before bed with some epsom salts or lavendar bath stuff (california baby) helps.
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Meg
Mama to Alexis, 22; Jacob, 19; and Elijah 11/20/02 and Sophia Jane, 11/20/04
Elijah allows me to dress him nicely and take a picture!
I still lay down to sleep with my 22 mo. old and my 5 year old! 22 mo sleeps in a side-carred crib, so I just nurse him to sleep and then leave--been doing this since he was born, so he knows the routine. Usually takes 10-20 min.
5 yo has also had me lay down with him since he was born. He slept with me until he was 4 and then decided he wanted to sleep in his own room. It sounds like a pain that I still lay down with him, but it seriously only takes about 5 minutes. I think he just really likes sleep-LOL!
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Molly
Mama to Tate 7/26/97, Flynn 7/14/99, Leo 2/22/02 &
Koen-born at home-5/24/05
neither of my kids likes nor thinks they need sleep.........which is part of the problem!
how can i make bedtime more appealing to them?
That's my situation as well. Stephanie just got a new twin bed and she will be sharing Ava's room...except that she won't sleep in the bed without me!
My dh wants her in her own room at this point.
My almost 2 year old? When he is sleepy he finds a dark place lays down and goes to sleep.,.. it is the weirdest thing EVER
Last night he climed in my arms and I rubbed his back in under 2 min he was asleep... before it has been my moms hallway with some dirty laundry as a pillow. At home he will sometimes just go upstairs climb in bed... when he is missing I can usually find him there
now that I am done bragging
For my other kid.... thats more of a challange. we have had to make great efforts to have him with a routein... dinner, bath, get dressed get in bed, read a book, announce lights will be turned off and give opportunity to need a run to the bathroom or a drink of water, turn off lights and listen to night CDs. Our routein did not work till we added the CD
I will highly recomend our night CDs we listen to Good Nights Greathall Productions Presents"Good Night"
or Sweet Dreams Greathall Productions Presents"Sweet Dreams"
by Jim Weiss and they made a huge impact on how Miguel falls asleep. They are not music nor are they stories they are Dream Journeys... taking the listener on a journey into bed and off to dream land. I loaded both CDs on my ipod and use a player putting them on random so i dont need to hear the same story over and over
Long story there...........
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