I just kicked Separation Anxiety in the bum!

MoMMy2*VictoRia* · #1 July 5th, 2011, 06:15 PM

I just wanted to share since i'm proud of myself! ugh its just so heartbreaking especially when u go to comfort the poor kid and she stares right into ur eyes with those big watery eyes and says clearly MAMA! AHHHHHH!!!!!

Separation anxiety has come back and in FULL force... but at night.. which sucks she never had problems sleeping at night.. she'd wake up after her first sleep cycle (about 35min later) and the crying commences! she misses mommy.

The past couple days it was hard to deal with because hubby is so much of a wuss! i know its heartbreaking! but his look and attitude about it makes me feel a million times worse! so after an hour or so of on/off crying i cave and wait till she's calm when i'm there pick her up, feed her again for comfort and put her back to bed.

NO NO not tonight and good thing DH isn't here because he has class after work! i did the CIO properly 3min, 5min, 10min then 12.. and continued to see her every 12 minutes till she feel asleep.. i stayed in the room longest 2min, spoke to her calmly and kissed her goodnight before i left! of course she started crying as i was leaving but she needed to wait and well eventually see Mommy is still around!... well 1h20min of that and she's now asleep again! PHEW! i DID IT!...

Separation anxiety 0 - Mommy 1! oh yah baby!...
i'm ready for u tomorrow! just hopefully u don't stick around long because YOUR NOT WELCOME!

MrsBauhaus · #2 July 5th, 2011, 06:37 PM

Good work! It is so hard to listen to them cry.

razzledobe · #3 July 6th, 2011, 04:19 AM

good job! it is hard

Yeah I dont know why people think that doing what you're doing equates to CIO in a way that is harsh or anything. I'm sorry but people sometimes need to sleep, work, function etc!

Im lucky that so far Gabe goes down pretty easy but if it wasnt happening I would definitely give what you're doing a try. In fact on Monday Gabe was soooo overtired and cranky that I had to put him in his crib and he was NOT happen. Maybe 2 minutes of protest and then he passed out. Wish I had done it sonner that day! Stay strong you!!