Sleep. It seems it's been the main theme of my life since E was born. Anyway, a few of you have asked how it's going on that front. I imagine you can tell by the lapse in my blogging and commenting that we aren't perfect in that arena right now. He's back to going to bed easily with me and falling asleep fairly well. He still awakens a lot in the night talking or fussing. I think his brain is just buzzing right now. We tried the toddler bed, and it was just a big fail. I think our next tactic is to get the full sized mattress, put it on the floor for now and sleep with him less and less each night until he's used to sleeping in his own room by himself. I don't imagine we won't have fallbacks, but we need to get back to some semblance of our normal.
Any thoughts on toddler adjustment to new beds welcome as always.
Any thoughts on toddler adjustment to new beds welcome as always.
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I wish I had some awesome advice, but I don't. Is it that he needs you there to fall asleep? My daughter has a favorite toy that she has slept with since she was a few months old. She can't sleep without him. Maybe you could try finding him a toy that would help him sleep?
When we transitioned Rhett he went to a mattress on the floor first. Now the boys share a trundle bed but they both sleep on the "down bed" (the lower one) as they call it, as apparently the "up bed" (which is just the height of a normal bed) is too scary! What kinds of toys/friends does E bring to bed with him? We are pretty permissive about them bringing things with them to bed (trains are a favourite) because it does seem to help them sleep. More later.
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I am not the best source for advice since I kept my kid in the crib until she was almost 2.75 years and never once did she climb out. We moved her into a large full sized bed (we're crazy), and she had no problems. Whe she turned 3 she had a terrible phobia of the dark and would run into our room and cry. I got a nighlight and Voila! No more problems.
BUt I feel you. I"m old and NEED MY SLEEP!
I don't have any great advice. I think I've mentioned before, I love the Happy Sleep Habits book and usually reference it for everything sleep related.
Hope you get some well deserved sleep soon!
Well you are way ahead of me so I don't know about moving to new beds.... but BOY do I feel you with the sleep struggles. I feel like that so often too... like it's been a struggle forever with us. I get so frustrated when other people don't have any sleep troubles with their little ones (or minor two-day problems, rather than month-long not-sleeping jags). It's just exhausting. Plus trying to parent the way I think I ought to while everyone else says to do something different. Just so darn frustrating. So, hugs.
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