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I need a mommy hug :(
Ugh! I posted a while back about my 22 mo DD and her awful sleep habbits. Well, I can't take it anymore! It takes us 2 hours to put her to bed at night. She doesn't want to nap, but them she's an over tired bear for the rest of the day and she's up anywhere from 2-4 hours in the middle of the night. Last night at 430a I had to put her in her crib. She cried but only for a few mins then went to sleep. I put her in her crib after trying for 1 hour to go to bed last night too. She went right to bed. Well she's been up for 3 hours tonight so I put her in there again! Tonight is awful! Screaming and all! I've gone in every 5 mins or so because of her screaming. She finally calm she's just sitting in her crib looking around. I just feel so bad that I'm letting her CIO! But this had to stop it's been going on for 6 weeks! I didn't want to do to much in fear she'll be angry at us or the baby, but she is 4 weeks old now. I've tried shorter naps, earlier bed time, later bed time I'm just at a loss. Anyway, sorry if this doesn't make sense it's 300am and I'm really tired. I just needed to vent and I feel like a horrible mom. 
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Re: I need a mommy hug :(
I hope things get better for you soon!! Just wanted to let you know that my kids are 22 months apart too and we had major sleep issues with DS when DD was born. We also transitioned him to a big boy bed (b/c his crib was recalled -- not by choice!) around the same time -- and it was hard.
We finally -- maybe 4 months later -- did some CIO. And it sucked, I won't lie. But less than 30 min of crying and now he goes to bed easily. We still have issues with him waking up too early (4:45 a few days) but overall it is much better.
Oh, I will mention that I read everything I could to find something that worked -- NCSS, Jay Gordon, HSHHC, etc.
I'm sorry you're dealing with this. It can be so hard to have little ones.
Good luck.
(hugs) we pretty much had to do the same thing with DD because she just wouldn't go to sleep if we were in there. She wanted to play. She was younger than your dd so now feel really bad about it.
However I kept reminding myself that I wasn't do her or us any favours by doing something that wasn't allowing her to get enough sleep.
It will get better but it is hard. Also it isn't CIO if you keep going in to try and calm her. I know it doesn't seem that way when they keep crying no matter what you do.
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Mother's Day, 2011
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My kiddos are 21 months apart and we had some sleep issues with J (who was a perfect sleeper before) when C was born. It did get better so there is hope!
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