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TinyPinkBug
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What do you do when LO is up all night?
TinyPinkBug
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B was up 1 til 5. She cried in her room until about 2:30 when I gave in and brought her downstairs hoping to prevent Ty from waking up too. Failed. Ty woke up almost exactly when I brought B down. I thought DH was with him, but he wasn't. I finally got B back to sleep at 5 then gave in and brought Ty down so he wouldn't wake her. I feel like there is no good solution. There has been lots of crankiness in this house this week, and I haven't gotten more than 3-4 hrs of broken sleep in any given night since last week. My patients are shot and it isn't helping. What do you do when your toddler/preschooler wakes at night. My kids have never been sleepers.
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Re: What do you do when LO is up all night?
well, I guess I'm lucky, because Evan has never been up that long at night. If he does wake up overnight I leave him for a little while, unless he's really upset. I can tell by the kind of cry if he's just being whiney or if he's truly upset. I will just rock him until he calms down, and then put him back in his bed and tell him it's night time.
On the few occasions that hasn't worked I will bring him into bed w/ us. That typically does the trick. I'll rub his back and he'll fall back asleep. I typically don't get much sleep... Evan sleeps all stretched out, so it doesn't leave much room in our bed!
The past few weeks we've been having more of a problem w/ getting him to sleep at bedtime. He just wants to play. 2 nights ago we let him get back up (after he was in his bed for close to 2 hours playing, singing, yelling etc) and then after he had a snack and some milk and played for 20 minutes we put him back in and he was finally able to fall asleep.
Make some extra coffee today!
Isn't it the worst to be up in the night? Ugh. Owen used to get up all the time and we would spend a few minutes in his room and then take him to the living room and put a show on or something. We realized finally that we had to break him of that habit (we would be asleep on the couch and he would be more awake than ever) and now offer to read him 2 stories in his room and then back in bed. Usually, he now only gets up for a breathing treatment or a wet bed, but he wants to go back in bed.
Mia on the other hand I cannot figure out. When she is up in the night, sometimes I have to remove her from her room because she is SO loud. However, when it gets to the point when I can't stay awake any longer, she goes back in her crib because she is into everything.
This was probably not helpful for you. If it happens a lot, I would try to make a plan and stick to it for at least a few times. Good luck. My kids take turns being bad sleepers.
DH will do this, or blissfully sleeps through the 6 million "Mommy"s I get when Ian's not sleeping well. And he wonders why I won't talk to him the first hour he's awake. And when I do start talking to him again, I tell him he's on duty the next time it happens.
When Ian was still in his crib, if I couldn't get him back to sleep after a couple of hours, I'd just give in and bring him into our bed. Since he has a full sized bed now, I will lay with him until he falls back to sleep. Neither is ideal, but after going that long, I'll try anything to preserve my sanity for the next day, especially if I have to be at work in a few hours. Sometimes it's a one-night thing, and he's fine the next night, other times, we have to show tough love and have him sleep by himself.
Hope this cycle breaks for you all very soon so you can start getting some rest.