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emilykristene2006
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Paging Dr. Kori
emilykristene2006
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Are you here? I'm losing it.
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Re: Paging Dr. Kori
sorry not Dr. Kori. is it your daughter's sleeping again?
Yes. I feel like I am losing my mind. DH offered to sleep in her room so I could actually get sleep and I wouldn't let him. We got into a huge fight, but I cannot let go of control.
He tried to take care of her last night, but I had wake him up whenever she started. She ended up coming into our room and I think his snoring disturbed her worse. She started flailing (sp?) around and he didn't even budge (I got punched in the eye twice). So I picked her up and took her to her room where I slept with her.
I know he's trying to help, but I guess I need the control. I cannot control anything else! I am being so irrational with so many things. I am calm as can be when it comes to calming DD, but as soon as I leave her room I start sobbing.
This just sucks and I feel so freaking helpless.
So my friend who is also going through this is swearing by the extra sleep. She says since she has gotten consistent with nap time and bedtime it has made a huge difference. If she is one who doesn't like to nap I would use that time to lay down with her and try get her to rest. As awful as it is to keep getting up I would stop sleeping with her. Just you in the room might disturb her enough to make them happen more. ( total guess from some other stuff I read about having a very quiet calm room.) I can only imagine how awful this must be for you. My friend also mentioned she recently heard something about growing spurts causing it. I know you said something about using benedryly, I did read that in another article. Maybe if tomorrow you can get her to take a good nap then give her the benedryl before bed and see if it helps?
Best of luck. Know this won't last forever.
Lately, sleeping with her makes them happen less. And when they do happen, they are so much better than if I am not in the room. She doesn't even know I am there. I get up and go back to my room before she wakes up and she thinks she has slept really well.
Last night I actually turned her night light off. She told me she wanted it back on, but I told her it was okay because I was there. DS broke the cover on it so it seems really bright in there. I need to get a new one tomorrow. She said okay, rolled over and seemed to sleep pretty decent after that. But, just because she slept, doesn't mean I did. I freaking keep waking up expecting another one any minute. Looking at her to make sure she is in bed. See, this is where I know I am being ridiculous. I just need to *** relax. It's makes me so *** angry that I can't relax. That I can't even *** talk about this without sobbing.
Yesterday she took a 2 hour nap. Last night, she didn't get to sleep until after 10pm because of the nap. I feel like the nap made it worse.
She just had another one, but this one was the calmest it's been. I just walked right in and she was about to get out of bed. I carefully picked her up (against everything I have read) and softly put her back on her pillow. I told her it's okay and I love her. She rolled back over without a fuss and went back to sleep. Or how do I even word that? Relaxed?
And trust me. I have thought about taking something myself. I have a valium I have been saving for a very rough day. It's calling my name, but I fear that I won't be able to be there for her.
Thank you so much for talking to me about this.
And just an FYI, I have not proof read my posts, so I am sorry if they don't make any sense.
good luck tonight. I am off to bed myself since my little guys keeps waking up himself.
As I mentioned above I don't notice the mistakes and even if I did is correcting grammar the point of this board......