I need some advice.

JoyousJulia

Our apartment is a small one bedroom. DS sleeps in the same bedroom with us in his own crib. We coslept until he was around 12.5 months or so. He was STTN really well up until about 2 or so weeks ago. Now he wakes up every night (like clock work) at 4:00. He sits and whines/cries until one of us come to pick him up. If we bring him to bed with us, he plays. If we lay him back down, he gets up again "yells" at me (because he can see me) for HOURS. 

He is teething, so we've started giving him a dose of motrin right before bed. That worked for about 2 nights. We know it's not an ear infection because we had his ears checked on Friday.

I am really on edge and I need some sleep. Any ideas? (Ya know, besides benadryl. j/k) 

stacinsean

Is it possible to put some kind of partition up between your bed and the crib? Maybe hang a curtain from the ceiling or something like that? This way he feels like he's in a different space and can't see you?

JeremysMegan

Try a divider of some sort- a large folding screen or a curtain of some sort.  I bet you can find some inspiration from that show "Small Spaces".  Christopher Lowell has always been good at designing multi-use small spaces as well.  It's worth a Google for some rest!

jenifairies

alaina was doing that crap - she would wake up earlier though, like 2-3 and then have a cow until i came to get her. then she would play until she passed out, usually 5 or 6. it was miserable. then i finally decided eff that and just let her cio and complain. she went back to sleep after about 15 minutes most nights and (knock on wood) hasn't done it for a few days.

i agree with the prev posters. get some sort of room divider. and ear plugs! I started turning off the monitor. i could still hear her (we share a wall) but it wasn't as bad.

eta: or you could move his crib in the living room. unless by one room, you mean one room, not one bedroom.

Tash13

Logan used to do that when he was in our room in his crib.  Usually, if we didn't move at all and he thought we were still asleep or just lumps in the bed, he'd go back to sleep fairly quickly.  It really helped if he couldn't see us so I'd agree with PP's and get some type of partition or seperate the beds as much as possible.

NYCred

I have so much empathy for you! We're in a 1br too - as are many of my friends here in the city.  It's not easy with a toddler, is it?

For the past couple of months we've been putting DD down to sleep in her crib in our room.  She'll stay there until we go to bed (from 8ish-10:30ish) at which point we'll move her to a pnp in the living room (we checked with her pedi who said it was fine to have her sleep in the pnp every night) where she stays until morning.    

Having her in a different room means that when she fusses in the middle of the night, she puts herself back down within a minute.  When she was in our room, she'd fuss at about 4:30ish, see us and wake herself - and us - up completely.  Now that she's in a different room, she sleeps until about 7am and DH and I are well rested. 

good luck!

Or you could look into getting a folding screen to keep DS from seeing you.  We use one in my room at my parent's house when I visit with DD and, while it works better than nothing, it isn't as good as having her in a different room.