[shockandawe]

And that I'm near the end of it!

Maggie is still getting up at least once most nights, and getting her back to sleep is getting harder and harder and harder. She'll get changed, and rocked and a bottle, but last night's woes kept me up almost 2 hours and I was in tears with her crying. She's not in pain, she's just clingy. And when I'm putting her down for naps it's just about as hard.

Unless she's dead tired, like zombie state falling asleep on the way up the stairs, I have no hope in you know what of getting her to go down. She is physically fighting it all the way. Crying starts only when I lay her down and won't stop...like ever...I've let her go as long as 20 minutes - half an hour, and I just don't know what else to do. She got another tooth this week (that makes 3 now), and I know the rest are close...could this really all just be about teething STILL!!!!??? Then suddenly, she's blissfully happy and totally normal again. I've got Sybil for a child. Seriously, I wasn't wrong when I called her an evil zygote.

I'm just heartbroken by it. Even when I pick her up and rock her it's not enough. She's fighting me then too...and when I put her on the floor, it still carries on. Til she starts investigating and getting into something. What else can I do? And just for the record - we're still against knocking out our children with a bit of rum in their bottles to get them to sleep, right?

I just don't want to be suckered into that whole keeping mommy up 3 times a night til she's four and we need a family intervention with professionals situation.

[AmandaEliz]

Awwww... I'm sorry. Ethan was a terror about sleeping, too. One day he just kinda grew out of it. I know that's absolutely zero help, but that's how it happened for us. I hope you guys can get some sleep soon.

Oh & I've always been a bigger fan of whiskey over rum... rum has too much sugar in it. I'm totally kidding, don't call CPS on me.

[Karlie]

Are you giving her her something for her teeth at night? It might have initially been her teeth hurting but is now a bad habit and it sounds like she's totally over tired (and you too!) I've used 'Painstop' with Luca three times when his teeth have really been hurting and keeping him up all night. It has codeine in it, and knocks him out cold. If you think it's teeth and normal medicine isn't helping you could try talking to her pharmacist to see if there's anything stronger there. I don't know, this is such a hard age they have so much going on and it really is a guessing game. Luca slept through the night for two weeks at 7months old, and then stopped and turned into a demon again. He does sleep through occasionally but mostly gets up 3, 4 or 5 times a night but for him I think it's mostly separation anxiety because he has a quick drink of water and a cuddle and goes back to sleep fairly easily.

[TarrahLovesHuLo]

Hunter did this when he wouldn't go down for his afternoon nap. It was almost as though he was napping at night, and when we tried to get him back to sleep he freaked out b/che wanted to get up (as if nap was over). His naps finally went back to normal and now when he wakes at night, he doesn't fight us to stay up. (he does wake frequently, but not for lengthy periods).

Have her naps changed? Could be teeth though. Hunter has been teething since his first tooth cut at 4 months old.

[Daffodil]

I think it could very well be her teeth. The teething pain gets worse at night, but just like adults, if kids get "distracted" by something, they don't focus on the pain so much, so that might be why she seems ok when she is playing with something. I agree with Karlie, try giving her some tylenol or motrin before bedtime and see if that helps.

[shockandawe]

Thanks - ya the teething thing has been constant with Maggie. She has been teething since 3 months and it's the whole roller coaster of symptoms...so yes, it really complicates the whole mommy doc diagnostics.

I do give her something for the teething when it's obviously the teeth that are bugging her. And yes, last night I hit her with the tylenol and it obviously helped. And Karlie, that bad habit is exactly what I'm fearing is happening at this point. We're going through the clingy separation anxiety phase, on top of the teething and on top of her learning how to use her temper tantrums for her own benefit. It's like my perfect child turned demon a couple of months ago, and wow - I just want my old baby back...lol.

The kicker is, we were STTN from 2 months through til she hit 9 months old. And the last month and a half have been a killer on me. On the nights when she does STTN, I'm now conditioned to wake up. As soon as I wake up, do my thing and get back to bed, it's like her mommy radar goes off and she's like "game on".

[starrsgirl]

Hugs! We had a rough night as well last night. I'm cross eyed I'm so tired and yet Emmett is tearing around the house like crazy.

[sboricua]

we are having a hard time too. desi is waking up at 3 and i lay her back down and pat her and it doesnt work. i put her in my bed and she has a hard time going back to sleep!!! I dont give her milk till its 5am so i wait it out. im so tired iof not being able to sleep thru the night!!! i need my SLEEP!