Every night for the past 4 nights have been a nightmare.

2bluesandapink · #1 February 7th, 2010, 05:52 PM

Teagen is waking up and crying. She is indecisive....she won't tell us what's wrong but is very obviously awake, she is just being stubborn and says "I want up"! She's not tired anymore and wants up.

We took her pacifier away in December so that isn't helpful anymore. We try soothing her but all she wants is to get up. We tell her to go to sleep and she throws out all her blankets and stuffed animals and her pillow. Then she screams for them back. We've tried not giving them back to her but the other night she cried off and on for almost an hour.

If we let her cry, she doesn't stop. I mean, it's been over an hour and I just can't take it anymore and cannot believe she is still going. She can't sleep with us because none of us can sleep when she is in the bed.

She is so stubborn. She has to do everything herself. If I start something and she wants to do it, she will UNDO what I started and start from the beginning. Like if I pull her pants down and she wanted to do it, she will pull them all the way up and then wait 5 seconds and pull them back down again. She insists on putting on her own pants and getting her own shoes and coat on. She wants to brush her own teeth and take off her diapers and fill her own sippy cups....

So we went out and bought her a CD player and I made a new lullaby CD for her. We put it in her room last night. She and Camden both had lullabies at night when they were birth-2....so we thought maybe it would help her sleep.

She went to sleep really well and we were all excited. Then about 1230 she woke up crying to get up. She cried for about an hour and Dave had to go in there every so often and rub her back. Finally she fell asleep.

I just said to Dave and Teagen "wow sissy you get to sleep with your new CD player on and your new lullaby, it's gonna be sooo nice".

She looked at me and smiled and said "It's not gonna work Mommy".

I bet we are in for another long night.

OnesOnTheWay · #2 February 7th, 2010, 06:24 PM

Oh no Brandy =( Clara started doing the exact same thing last May and that's around when she started jumping out of her crib for dear life.. which the next day we got the toddler bed. I have no advice to say except that for Clara it was a phase and lasted about 2-3 weeks.. so hopefully she'll be back to her normal routine soon.

BrookeN · #3 February 7th, 2010, 07:46 PM

Oh man, that's tough. Carters had some sleep issues too over the past couple of months. He's in a toddler bed now and occasionally gets out and comes into our room, wide awake, ugh. I hope it's just a short lived phase! Good luck tonight!

SweetSimpleThings · #4 February 7th, 2010, 10:35 PM

Oh I feel your pain - hugs

We went through several months of really rocky sleep - and he had been a solid sleeper for nearly two years, so it was quite the shock to the system. He was waking up someimtes a dozen times a night - we tried everything: cuddles, bringing him in with us, etc. He was having night terrors sometimes.

Anyway, part of the issue for us was the nap - even though he often still napped for like 2 hours, as soon as we stopped doing the nap, he started sleeping better at night again. The trouble is, at daycare he often will ask to nap when the other kids do, and on those days, he has a rough night....

It may be a phase... or it may be her daytime sleep.

I have read many, many moms on different parts of JM comment that their LOs went through a rocky patch between 2.5 and 3 years... I think night terros become more common, they also realize they can control their situation a lot more, and their brains are probably going a mile a minute with new experiences.

I wish I had some helpful advcie, but all I can say is that I feel your pain and I hope it gets better soon!

DondraB · #5 February 7th, 2010, 11:04 PM

Kinley has been in our bed since 6 months..not something I was planning on doing-but since I was getting zero sleep-I did anything I could to sleep.

The past few weeks we have put a pallet on the floor in our room and she sleeps there. If she sleeps in her toddler bed, she will only last an hour before she is up in our room. Plus when Karsyn is born, she will be in the pack-n-play in our room and I don't want Kinley to be jealous that she is kicked to her room and Karsyn is in our room. Well, she will last a few hours on the floor then she will get up and get in our bed, or tell me to get back down there with her.

But for the past few nights she has woke up screaming and crying and is just out of it....because she is sick. Do you think Teagan could be getting sick?? Kinley will just start screaming and crying and give me this weird look like she doesn't know who I am-and she doesn't want me or DH to hold her/comfort her. I usually just have to grab her and hug her really hard and bounce her for her to go back to sleep......but it is wearing me out! So I feel your pain! (it doesn't help that I've had a HORRIBLE sinus infection and can't sleep myself)

I hope you have a better night tonight!!