My Lottie used to be our very best sleeper, but right now she is our worst. She's the last one to give in at night and the first one up in the morning. She'll lay in bed and talk to Jack until he falls asleep and then she runs out into the living room, tells us some strange thing and then runs back to her bed. This goes on and on every 5-10 minutes until she finally passes out. Here is a few of the things she's come out to tell us tonight:
---I'm just not sure that my dreams will come true
---I'm afraid of bears
---Can we go strawberry picking?
---I like ballerinas
---I want a basket for my birthday to put all my strawberries in when we go strawberry picking
---Sometimes Jack calls me a poopoo head but I'm not!
---I just love beautiful thingsIt's hard not to laugh sometimes at the stuff she needs to tell us but it's also super annoying. What do we do?
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ugh...This is what Tate does. But he comes out and says, " I have a question" and then goes into some long elaborate story. He does this over and over. I'll be interested to see if anyone has any good advice. I could use it too!
I'm so sorry for you. From my experience, there is no easy answer or solution. Dr. Weissbluth (from Healthy Sleep Habits...) calls this the Jack in the Box Syndrome. Craig has been doing this for about three months now and he's finally beginning to very gradually get better. Now, we can get him to go to sleep between 8 and 8:30 with only one time out of bed and he usually doesn't wake up until after 5 (which is such a blessing, oddly). He was popping in and out of bed for an hour or more every night, despite our various attempts at threats or extra soothing night time routines. Then he was waking up around 2 and only going back to sleep after several times of getting up again and then he would decide to be up for the day around 4 or 4:30. I tried getting a clock and putting a sticky note over all the numbers except the hour and telling him not to get out of bed until it said 6. That didn't work. Setting the alarm didn't work either. Now we've settled on not putting him back to bed as long as it's at least 5 (usually it's 5:30ish) and letting him watch a movie until the rest of us get up. He's also "outgrown" (or just decided to stop) getting up at 2 and seems to sleep through until 5. I read and looked and asked for advice on this and never found anything that worked, unfortunately. I just had to suffer through it. Who knows...maybe he'll relapse and it's not as close to being over as I thought. Maybe see if someone can trade babysitting for a few hours during the week so you can take a nap. Other than that, go to bed as early as you can and pray for strength! That's what I've been doing.
Man Sherry that sounds annoying too. After reading about your problems with Craig I kind of wonder if I have unrealistic expectations for Lottie. I mean, she does this ridiculous in and out thing for sometimes up to an hour but then she does finally go to sleep. We don't see her again until about 7:30 the next morning. I just want her to stay in her bed when we put her in there, like her brothers do, but maybe I should just be grateful she stays there for the rest of the night once she does fall asleep. By the way, I love the healthy sleep habits happy child book. I use that thing like a text book with every new baby--since they're all different..
...at least you can understand what she is saying...I am determined to give Ansley 1 month to settle in the new house, then I am following the Healthy Sleep Habits books religiously until it kicks in...oh, what I would do for a child to sleep past 7am...
I feel like I do this to Devon while he's trying to sleep. I'm so excited to play with Lottie!
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