This morning W was being a total PITA, I sent him to his room and when I went to check he had p***ed all over the floor! Not just an accident, it was everywhere in lines, not puddles and his pants were dry - he did it intentionally! I was soooo angry that I smacked his bum. Not the best moment but I have no idea what else to do with him!
Then I met DH down a country road to look at a section that is for sale. The second he drove away I accidentally locked my keys, phone and Amelia in there. We were at a dead end and no cars go down there. I tried to smash the window with a rock but it didn't work, tried to get a stick through to hit the unlock button but I couldn't. So I had to leave her in there screaming and go to the nearest house about 5 minutes away. It was abandoned, then there was no one home at the next place so I found a pitchfork in the yard and made my way back to the car. I smashed the back window open and got her out. Then I had to call DH to swap cars with me because mine had too much shattered glass to have the kids in there.
Now the insurance are saying it isn't covered because it was intentional damage - $600 to replace the window!
Then all afternoon W has been tantruming and being a general turd. There is something wrong with that kid. I am so over it.
oh Arte! that day takes the cake on horror happenings! how scary having to leave her there! good on you for thinking about the pitchfork...now i know a rock wont work....wow!
Oh no Arte, you must have been so stressed about leaving her there. And the insurance company are turds too. I'm with G though, it just isn't normal behaviour for a child to do what he did with weeing on the floor like that, everything is just getting worse with him and with the baby on the way you really need to have something sorted out to help him.
LMAO Trill, I remember you saying I needed to get W sorted out before the new baby two years ago and I am still in the same place!
What can a GP do?
Basically his behaviour is up the creek because his sleep is so crap. He is back to waking several times at night, often tantrums before bed and during the night when he wakes. Funny that MD mentions SADS because his behaviour is always so much worse going into winter. Feb/March for the last 3 years has been bad for us. He is also wanting us to sleep with him all night, he doesn't want to be alone. I am starting to wonder if this new insecurity has come from his recent realisation that people die (thanks earthquake), since it started at roughly the same time.
I have also cracked it big time with this comforted sleeping crap. It failed spectacularly the first time round, then I went and did the exact same thing and stupidly expected a different result. Well, that didn't work out and A is just as terrible at sleeping as W. She will not stay in her bed alone. She wakes about half an hour or so after I have managed to escape her and I have to lay with her again to resettle her (half the time she screams anyway). After doing that 3 or 4 times I usually give up around 3am and sleep in there with her just so I can get some sleep but that is just showing her if she keeps waking eventually I will stay there = not helpful.
This next kid is going to get a rude shock if it plans on having hourly feeds at night or wants to sleep with me, cos it just isn't happening.
Arte, it may have been a spectacular failure for you, but it sounds like it is the only thing that works for them. When we had to do it with A when he was going through the roughest of his reflux problems, I hated it - DH did too, but I had to just suck it up and do it because thats what worked best. Sometimes you have to put your own needs aside and do what works and what gets you all the most sleep.
With W's behaviour, when has he ever truly had a time when it was 100% good? He has always been a high maintenance child and true, it does seem to fluctuate depending on how bad his sleep is, but I think it is all part of a bigger problem. Going to a GP could help a lot - getting a referral to have a sleep study done on him would be a start and see if there is a neurological problem causing it, because maybe if there is a 'reason' for it, then there can be a solution to deal with it. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that we just want you to be able to have a night where you don't have a fight happen and that you can go to bed knowing that you wont be getting up 10 times before morning. Most of all I know how tough this is going to be once you have the baby - and my older two were brilliant sleepers, but still found it tough at times once P was born and getting used to dealing with 3 little ones on my own.
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