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Well well well – Hello Ladies. . .kind of funny we are all here – lol. Glad to “see” all of you
!Heres a replay of our night last night – I was reading my toddler development book in bed. . .due to some of the same sleep disruptions here and there – went to bed by 11:30 .. .12:15 I can hear the little miss in the next room. It went like this: “Oh ohhh – pee yew, oh no – poopy, Maaa, Daaaa – oh ohhh choo choo (we can hear a train from a mile away but it wasn’t going by then), ma ma – where are you, oh no – pee yeeeew, woof woof . ..BALL!, Elmo, Cookie, oh no pee yeeew – uh oh poopy.” This went on for 20 minutes until I was finally convinced that the kid had a yucky diaper. .. double ear infection, antibiotics, two gross diapers that day – made sense. I went in there and she put on a big show – “oh no – poopy, eeeewww ma.” Grabbing her diaper the whole nine yards. So I figured – I did the right thing, weeell – the kid bluffed me! No dirty diaper, no need for drama, just a good sense of what would get me in there.
Long story short – same thing here. For a while it was sheer hysteria over the train. That did require intervention as you would have thought the windows were going to break the way she was carrying on but now its turned into I say “choo choo” and mommy comes in to see me. LOL – just kills me how fast they catch on.
My advice since we have the endlessly bad sleeper – the put down technique. It still involves crying but like you there is no way in heck I can co-sleep. If you’ve left him to CIO you might need to do the old sleep on the floor for a couple of nights to help him get over that idea but the put down is basically, go in there and lay him down and say – “its time to sleep” or something to that effect. If he gets up, do it again. If he still refuses, do it again .. .you get the drift. If necessary, just lay down and go to sleep yourself and he will follow your lead. Don’t sleep on the floor more than one-three nights though or thats a whole other issue. .. not to mention damn uncomfortable! This works wonders with Sophia but truthfully I’ve been too tired with work and day to day stuff to put the effort in – we are there soon though since the little manipulator is starting to make me irritated – lol. I don’t know – they are learning, growing, talking more, conquering the world – its got to get them a little hyped up and effect something right?
Hope all is well everyone – big hugs and plenty of sleep to all!
~Liz
ps – Becky’s naptime advice and Laura’s talk it out advice have worked for us in the past too .. .every night we sort of sing about our day and that seems to calm nerves and get it all out so shes not thinking about stuff all night long. It backfired on me with the choo choo train bit though – seemed to make her more scared – lol. . .really I would like an instructional manual already!
lovemysophia 2006-1-31 15:41:27 oh i love you all!!
you’ve put many smiles on my face, just reading all your replies. it’s like being a newbie again 
well, the waking has gotten better. we’re down to pretty much once a night, sometimes not even that. interestingly, he just started eating mac n cheese and in my search for what could be causing this wake up business, i saw that the mac n cheese has yellow dye in it. so i bought the white cheddar and that’s when i started to notice he’s better. i could be totally deluding myself, as is always possible as i scamper for answers, but hey!
BTW–lisa, what an interesting theory!! wow. if cio doesn’t work, i’m all for sleeping on the floor. at least it would be sleep
ann marie, i’m all for ‘tough love’! lol! i feel we’re actually making headway but damn is this kid feisty!! and stubborn! where DOES he get it??
laura, i am going to try your suggestion about talking to riley all day about sleeping thru the night. heck, i’ll even use it on his naps ’cause God knows they’ve gotten shorter too
out of curiousity, did it work on jonah? becky–aaah, the bird-isms always make me laugh. how about sending some pictures my way so i can see this little lady?
liz–and yet again, i’m wishing we lived right next door to eachother. that way, at three in the morning we could open the window and look at one another and say, ‘yep, we’re up again….you too?’
…..and to all a good night!!!
Let me know what works, CIO is not an option for us (b/c of the fundo, retching, yuck) Samantha hadly ever sleeps through the night
I *think* the talking about it incessantly helped, but who knows, you know
? It’s so hard when something finally changes to put a finger on exactly what it was…I also made a song about it with hand motions showing ‘loooong’ and then had the same song for when he woke up…”jonah’s gonna have a long nap, a good nap, a long nap, jonah’s gonna have a long nap a good nap today. Inna crib jonah jonah jonah. jonah’s gonna have a long nap a good nap today.” Then, even more exuberantly when he DID have a long nap, I sang to him right when he woke up and made a big happy show
“jonah had a long nap, a good nap, a long nap, jonah had a long nap a good nap today!!! Inna crib jonah jonah jonah. jonah had a long nap a good nap today!” y’know, we do something similar along the lines of laura. its not a song, but we often “pretend” sleep when we are playing, complete with curling up and snoring (although lately, hannah ends up yelling “get up mommy!!!”) but i think she’s receptive to seeing sleep as something positive. as long as she’s not irate for whatever reason, this “let’s sleep now” can often help slow her down in prep for naptime or night.
We do the pretend sleep as well. Kaelyn recently just started to “snore” with us. I don’t know if it helps with nap and bedtimes, but it’s really cute.
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