another bed transition question

aprilprincess · February 2009

How do you get them to stay in there for naptime or bedtime?

At naptime Addie usually plays in her crib for a bit before going to sleep, I can't figure out how she'll stay in bed or sleep at all.

Also, she wakes up at 2 or 6 sometimes, talks to herself, fully awake, and then goes back down. I don't know what will make her go back to sleep if she can get out and play.

I've got the knob protectors so she can't get out or lock herself in, and I'll be searching for our old baby monitor, I don't want her to get scared either when she can't get out. but what else do you do?

TexasHarmony · February 2009

We haven't mastered naps yet, but to be honest, I like to nap with her on weekends anyway.

At night, we put her to sleep completely with us the first week. Then K left and I have been putting her in her room awake. She usually stays in there except last night she got up a couple of times. I just sat in her room with her for a few minutes until she got good and asleep.

The first week, she was in our room at 2 and 6 like clockwork. The past week she has been much better about waking up and putting herself back to sleep. Admittedly, she was in my room at 2 this morning, but I was too tired to take her back to her bed.

We usually take her back to her room and she goes back down. I think the newness of it excites her.

We don't have the knob protectors, but I should get one so she can't lock herself in. We shut the sleeping part of the house off and the only places she can go are her room and my room.

Phew all that and it wasn't very helpful other than just keep putting her in her bed and talking up the big girl bed.

jen5-03 · February 2009

We sing Eloise to sleep as she's laying in bed for naps and nighttime, so no help there.

But when she wakes up, she doesn't get out of bed, she lays there and cries. At night it's pitch black in her room, but even for naps I think she's gotten out of bed once in almost 4mo of being out of the crib.

CindyandScott · February 2009

Addie sounds like Reagan. For the first few days we could hear her playing in her room and we just let her. When it got quiet we would check on her and find her asleep on the floor. We moved her back to her bed. After a few days she seemed to get it. Even if we hear her up moving around and playing at nap time we have just let her and now she will put herself back into the bed to go to sleep. If it goes on too long I just peek my head in there and she looks at me and runs back to bed and lays down. She knows where she is supposed to be. Surprisingly we have never had a problem at bed time. But we have always also closed her door so that wasn't new to her. I was concerned about the playing but the only things she has in her room that she can get to are her books and stuffed animals. This of course does not include her clothes that she likes to pull out of drawers and her room looks like a disaster area but it works for now.

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