Arrgh! My DD is doing this RIGHT NOW! She has been screaming every time I try to put her to bed for the last hour and a half She did it 2 nights ago too. I hope it is just a phase.
I know its hard no having mummy & daddy time but for me - Id rather DD happily go to bed later than fight it (making us both frustrated) going earlier!
Eva has always gone to bed 8pm-ish. Both my girls are up super early now too thats qld spring/summer for you though!
I think youd find that Ava would adjust her daytime sleeps as she needed to - so maybe just try the later bedtime and see how you go??
She's just gone to bed! Fingers crossed.... DH played with her heaps this afternoon to help tire her out even more... her eyes were so red she must have been sooo tired.
Jakabella - yep we bring DD into our bed of a night time (and day) if she won't sleep in her own cot but I don't sleep well with her in our bed and once she falls fast asleep i then carry her back to her cot anyway... i feel she is safer in her cot than in our bed. DH and I are rollers and roll around alot and have the doona over us I worry DD would get overheated etc.
Yep we do the 15mins/15mins thing too some nights.... but if she's really upset I don't do it I just let her stay up with us until she's really tired.
Thanks for your posts
Boomba - she seems to get up the same time in the morning regardless of the time she went to bed.... Her room is always nice and dark but in the morning the sun seeps through the cracks around the blinds, i'm sure that doesn't help. We are moving soon so maybe the next room might be better Yep she will fall asleep with us in our bed but sometimes she wont... she'll lie there chatting away thinking its play time very cute but not when i just wanna sleep.
Sneaky - I am the same... I don't like the whole fight to get her to sleep thing so I don't try for long and instead just bring her out with us of an evening so she can sit and watch us eat dinner etc or have some more cuddles. Thing is that is upsetting me about it all, is the fact that it's such a loooong day for me because DD doesn't sleep much in the day time and wakes earlier in the mornings lately so with all of these things happening i'm one exhausted Mummy
I think her going to bed later in the evenings, would not bother me as much if only she slept more throughout the day time you know??? *sigh*
lucky she is cute .....
Ren I'm so sorry to have to say this, but you've made me feel so much better. Thankyou.
Nate is doing EXACTLY that. He's killing me. Plus he still feeds some 4 times+ every night. He screams his heart out if you even try to put him down. Until 2 nights ago he fell asleep after his last feed, and even though he wasn't completely settled until about 9.30 he was still asleep.
He started crawling a few weeks ago and is now cruising furniture so I know he's usuing his energy....far out you'd think I'd have some clue this time around wouldn't you?
Sorry Ren.. I dont have any more advice! Bella is now in the bed room with Dh and he is trying to get her to settle and go to sleep.. looks like it will be a late one for her tonight!
Ohh I can hear her screaming ... one very very over tiered little girl!!
Hope you get a good nights sleep tonight ren *finger crossed*
She only settles for me... not DH. Even though he tries and tries. She just wants me
He's with her now trying to settle her but no doubt i'll end up giving her boob to calm her down.....which I don't mind doing.... ugh just need her to sleep for us.
I don't understand how they can be sooo tired but not sleep!!?
She did it 2 nights ago too. I hope it is just a phase.
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thats qld spring/summer for you though!
Her room is always nice and dark but in the morning the sun seeps through the cracks around the blinds, i'm sure that doesn't help. We are moving soon so maybe the next room might be better
Yep she will fall asleep with us in our bed but sometimes she wont... she'll lie there chatting away thinking its play time
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