I am cautiously optimistic that we have powered through my toddler's sleep regression (nap strikes and super early wakeups), and I'm so super pumped about it! I started giving him little pep talks before putting him down, telling him that Mama is always right here, so even if he wakes up early, just relax and try to go back to sleep and Mama will come get him when it's time to get up. Honestly, in no way did I really think that would work on a 2.5 year old, BUT now when I go get him, he's awake just chilling, and he says, "Mama always here. I wait for Mama." I'm floored. Just floored. But it gives me all the warm fuzzies
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Let me know how it goes! I know how ridiculous it sounds. No one is more shocked by this than me, I think!
I've also added the book Llama Llama Red Pajama back into the storytime rotation. If you haven't read it, it is about just this, "Mama's always near, even if I'm not right here," which I think is perfect for what's been happening. What he was doing was waking up and immediately sitting up and yelling "MAMAAAAAAAA!!!! I WAKE NOWWWWWW!"
That has completely stopped. I watch him on the monitor and we wakes up and just chills or else goes back to sleep entirely. IT'S SO GOOD!
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Wow you are so lucky. DS just turned 2 in September and is having a hard time with sleep lately. He’s so off his routine and I’m trying to get him back on track. He started speech therapy a month ago and has his last set of 2 year molars coming in. It’s been a tough road!! Hoping he goes back to normal soon!
Does anyone else feel they are in a lull time? What i mean is that i feel i should be doing something right now, but dont feel like i can do anything yet. My shower isnt for awhile and i feel that has to happen before i can do much (put nursery together, wash clothes, pack hospital bags). Our birth classes dont start until the end of januray. I am reading, but just feel i should be doing something more? Idk maybe nesting brain ha
@GG620 I just told my husband last week that I feel like we're living too normally right now and we should be preparing somehow. But I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing either!
@GG620 Totally with you. I feel like I should be doing more, but it just isn't time yet. Instead I'm nesting in other ways - like reorganizing and cleaning kitchen cabinets, organizing the basement, painting the living room (well making DH do it), etc. I'm hoping to do more after the holidays.
Also with DD I had the nursery half done by now - so you could start that if you're feeling nest-u.
AFM: We're dealing with some sleep issues here too. DD keeps waking up at 3am. She's had a cough, could also possibly be teething, and we stared adding an extra blanket now that winter is here. Poor sweet pea - and poor DH bc I've been playing the pregnant card and having him go in to her. She had a low fever last night and this morning so DH is home with her today.
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A friend of mine brought her 5 month old over. She tried to put him down for a nap and he would not stop crying. Meanwhile, I had to put DS down for his nap in his room (next door to where her baby was screaming). He's never had to nap with someone else making that type of noise around him. I tucked him in, and he was asleep in minutes.
I AM SO PROUD!!!! And it gives me so much hope for the newborn stage that MAYBE my toddler's sleep (that we've worked soooo hard on) won't be ruined.
@bettyvonsomethingstein, that's amaaaaaaazing!!!! We are just now getting out of the 2 year sleep regression (DS is 2.5) and it was a challenging one. I think it was close to the 4 month regression in terms of intensity for us. I almost died during the 4 month one haha! Good job plowing through!!!
@bettyvonsomethingstein I have to agree. As silly as it sounds, ever since my youngest was an infant, I've always said before sleep times "Mam is right next door. I'll see you in the morning." And I still use the line today. And both my boys are great sleepers. I think they are wayyyyy more intuitive then we know.
The weirdest thing happened to me last night. I was taking a bath and I sat up to get out and I kid you not... I saw the whole outline of my babies body... she was pressed against me and I could see her head, body and her little limbs!! My DH saw it too and we both started freakin' the hell out! I sat back down in the tub real fast and it went away... it was sooooo weird and cool at the same time.
People have said, oh wait until you see a whole foot or hand push out. Ladies, we have skipped that stage and went full body outline. Consider me floored.
@justkeeptrying, the fear is real of having one kid wake up the other! I totally feel ya there! But it's amazing what these kiddos will do when it's part of their routine.
Do your kids do daycare at all? Mine go two days a week, and the times I've been there around naptime, I've been amazed at the kids that are sleeping while others are running around them playing.
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Does anyone else feel they are in a lull time? What i mean is that i feel i should be doing something right now, but dont feel like i can do anything yet. My shower isnt for awhile and i feel that has to happen before i can do much (put nursery together, wash clothes, pack hospital bags). Our birth classes dont start until the end of januray. I am reading, but just feel i should be doing something more? Idk maybe nesting brain ha
I feel that way about Christmas. We are hosting absolutely everybody this year, and it's too early to buy most groceries or do the last minute cleaning. The best I can do is "you don't have to get ready if you stay ready," so just staying on top of the little stuff so I don't have a huge amount to do at the end.
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My coworker just popped his head in to ask me a question and let loose a giant fart. We both pretended it never happened, but I was dying on the inside.
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Lately I have been super annoyed by DH. I'm hoping its just me being pregnant and feeling as big now at 28 weeks as I was at the end with DD. But seriously, everything he does (or more like doesn't do) makes me really pissy. I feel like I could write paragraph after paragraph why I am so annoyed at him. And the worst part is, I hate feeling like this towards him. So I'm really hoping it'll pass.
@GG620 this is my third so I don't have a shower to wait for but still feel in a lull. I have moved both of my other kids into their new bedrooms that I redecorated and painted. But then we go Christmas stuff out and have moved the leftover stuff into the new nursery. So now I have to wait until after Christmas to paint and get that around. Then we are going to Mexico for a week at the end of January and that takes away more time. I am going to have to bust my butt trying to get Christmas stuff taken down and the nursery painted before I go to Mexico.
Yeah... we are in lull mode, but should NOT be. We have sooo much to do and the fact that I can now say “this baby could be here at the end of NEXT MONTH” (Feb due date here) has me entirely wigged out! I just feel like we are leaving everything until the last minute and are going to be rushing after Christmas chaos...... With our other two the nursery was loooong done by this point. Showers were just about had.. etc etc. Ah well, it’ll get done..... I think.
@bettyvonsomethingstein, no, my DS is home with me 24/7 so no daycare experience here. I would be floored to see him fall asleep in a room full of other kids.
@justkeeptrying It is seriously amazing how kids sleep at daycare. I worked in child care, and we would have 6-7 kids awake when they were outgrowing their naps, and 6-7 sleeping. All in the same room. And the 6-7 awake were NOT quiet children haha.
@chasingroygbiv okay I’m not sure how you find it on desktop because I use the mobile app, but it’s just a tab that says “real answers” where TB people select questions that users have posted. I don’t know how they decide what to put there but 50% of the time I’m like “this is a stupid question.” And the other 50% I’m like WTF did I just read?????
@ShawnnaO I was reading them last night and the number of questions that related to “am I going to be drug tested and will they call CPS on me and I use marijuana just so I can sleep and that’s fine right??” absolutely floored me. As in there were more than 5. In the second trimester portion. Whattt?
Those that have other kids, when did y’all move them to a toddler bed or out of crib? Ours will be 2.5 at Christmas and we were thinking about moving her out of the baby’s room then so it’s before the baby comes. Any tips for a smooth transition?
@slr1229 I'm interested in hearing answers too! I think you'd be ok with your kiddos age... we were debating moving our 16 month old (he'll be 18/19 months when baby arrives) but decided against it since he's doing so well in his crib.
To follow up on what @ShawnnaO has pointed out. I'm not a member but lurk on Baby Center birth month clubs occasionally. Some of the posts/questions are so out there and funny. Similar to the "real answers" on the bump. Head on over there if you want a good laugh.
@npkat I haven’t been on Baby Center during this pregnancy, but I remember I HARDCORE lurked it in my last pregnancy, as well as the trimester boards on TB (I didn’t know birth month boards here were a thing) I feel like the only safe place is my birth month
@slr1229 & @scoogy19, we moved DS when he was 2 years and 2 months because he crawled out of his crib. Honestly, it was earlier than I wanted. My goal was to keep him in there as long as possible (like until college?)
I'm not going to lie, the transition sucked. I think it also happened to coincide with his 2 year sleep regression. That was beginning of August and I feel like sleep is finally getting back to normal now. But I honestly think it had more to do with a sleep regression than it did with the toddler bed.
Our biggest goal was to remain consistent with him. He only had a few nights where he was coming out of his bed, and that was at bedtime, not in the middle of the night. We'd just walk him back to his room and remind him to call us rather than come get us.
This weeknd (likely) we are moving him from the toddler bed into a twin bed so we can convert the toddler bed back into a crib. I'd say if you're going to switch them, do it now so they have time to adjust before new baby arrives and they don't have another thing in their life being changed due to the new baby.
@slr1229 we plan on keeping DS in his crib as long as humanly possible. He does so well in his crib. He’ll be 2.5 when the baby arrives and I’ve been told by so many people to keep him in there as long as we can lol so maybe once he starts trying to climb out we’ll transition him.
@slr1229 we’re tansitioning my daughter to a twin bed when this baby is ready for the crib. If we do it like we did with P, that will be around the 4-6 month range, which will make P roughly two years old.
@slr1229 my DS will be 2.5 at Christmas too, and that's when we're moving him. His new bedroom and big boy bed will be a surprise from Santa. I figured that would leave a couple months to get him settled in there in a nice routine and time for us to turn his current room into the nursery for the new babe.
@slr1229, we just made the transition to a toddler bed a week or two ago. I wanted to keep him in the crib until 3, or forever, but we need the crib for the new baby. He's 2.5 and things went amazingly smoothly. He has yet to get out of bed at all at nighttime. He had a few nap strikes and a few early wakeups, but we powered through and seem to have moved past it. I'm kind of in disbelief that my strong-willed child who does not embrace change took to it so quickly!
I will say, I wanted to do it now just in case things didn't go well. I don't want to be dealing with MOTN toddler issues late in third tri, or worse, when the baby comes. I wanted to give him plenty of time to adjust.
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@ShawnnaO Some of these are really funny but some are just sad. I did get a good laugh at some of them!
I gotta say though, I think it's downright irresponsible of TB to post all the answers to the flu shot one - some of them are blatantly false anti-vax info.
I read the first post and thought "meh, probably not a big deal but they should probably have a discussion about their relationship" Read the first update and thought she was overreacting to a stupid comment. Read the third post and thought...
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I've also added the book Llama Llama Red Pajama back into the storytime rotation. If you haven't read it, it is about just this, "Mama's always near, even if I'm not right here," which I think is perfect for what's been happening. What he was doing was waking up and immediately sitting up and yelling "MAMAAAAAAAA!!!! I WAKE NOWWWWWW!"
That has completely stopped. I watch him on the monitor and we wakes up and just chills or else goes back to sleep entirely. IT'S SO GOOD!
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Me: 28 Him: 30
Married: 11/15/14
TTC: 02/2016
IF DX: MFI (low count & morphology) & mild PCOS
June 2016 BFP - MC @8w2d
August 2016 BFP - MC @6w1d
June 2017 - 50 mg Clomid + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP 7/6/17!!
Beta #1 = 422 (14dpo), Beta #2 = 810, prog - 12.3 (16dpo), Beta #3 = 5023, prog - 18.9 (20dpo)
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Also with DD I had the nursery half done by now - so you could start that if you're feeling nest-u.
AFM: We're dealing with some sleep issues here too. DD keeps waking up at 3am. She's had a cough, could also possibly be teething, and we stared adding an extra blanket now that winter is here. Poor sweet pea - and poor DH bc I've been playing the pregnant card and having him go in to her.
Dx: PCOS
Married: June 2013
TTC#1: January 2015
BFP #1 8/24/15 | MC 9/3/15 at 6w2d
BFP #2: 12/12/15 | DD born 8/29/16
TTC#2: June 2017
BFP #3: 7/15/17 | DS born 3/20/18
I AM SO PROUD!!!! And it gives me so much hope for the newborn stage that MAYBE my toddler's sleep (that we've worked soooo hard on) won't be ruined.
The weirdest thing happened to me last night. I was taking a bath and I sat up to get out and I kid you not... I saw the whole outline of my babies body... she was pressed against me and I could see her head, body and her little limbs!! My DH saw it too and we both started freakin' the hell out! I sat back down in the tub real fast and it went away... it was sooooo weird and cool at the same time.
People have said, oh wait until you see a whole foot or hand push out. Ladies, we have skipped that stage and went full body outline. Consider me floored.
Do your kids do daycare at all? Mine go two days a week, and the times I've been there around naptime, I've been amazed at the kids that are sleeping while others are running around them playing.
I feel that way about Christmas. We are hosting absolutely everybody this year, and it's too early to buy most groceries or do the last minute cleaning. The best I can do is "you don't have to get ready if you stay ready," so just staying on top of the little
stuff so I don't have a huge amount to do at the end.
And the worst part is, I hate feeling like this towards him. So I'm really hoping it'll pass.
I'm not going to lie, the transition sucked. I think it also happened to coincide with his 2 year sleep regression. That was beginning of August and I feel like sleep is finally getting back to normal now. But I honestly think it had more to do with a sleep regression than it did with the toddler bed.
Our biggest goal was to remain consistent with him. He only had a few nights where he was coming out of his bed, and that was at bedtime, not in the middle of the night. We'd just walk him back to his room and remind him to call us rather than come get us.
This weeknd (likely) we are moving him from the toddler bed into a twin bed so we can convert the toddler bed back into a crib. I'd say if you're going to switch them, do it now so they have time to adjust before new baby arrives and they don't have another thing in their life being changed due to the new baby.
I will say, I wanted to do it now just in case things didn't go well. I don't want to be dealing with MOTN toddler issues late in third tri, or worse, when the baby comes. I wanted to give him plenty of time to adjust.
I gotta say though, I think it's downright irresponsible of TB to post all the answers to the flu shot one - some of them are blatantly false anti-vax info.
EDD March 12, 2018
EDD March 12, 2018