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SqueezeTheClay · December 2011

I'm tired. My two year old had been a wonderful sleeper/napper her whole life and has decided that this is the week she'll turn into a terror at bedtime, and instead of sleeping through the night we now wake up around 4am just to sit on mommies lap. Then I lay her down and get to listen to her scream some more, basically it's sucking about an hour and a half of sleep from my nights, add that to being sick and thinking I was going to vomit at some point in the middle of the night last night, and I'm just tired.

This last week being tired has meant that all my healthy habits have gone out the window, because I'm too tired to maintain them. And so now on top of feeling like a zombie, I feel like unhealthy garbage.

Throw in the fact that on Sunday my ankle hurt and felt like it needed to crack or something, so I did a few ankle circles and whatever I did left my right ankle a horrible mess and I can't walk on it very easily, so no walks for me, which I miss terribly.

I homeschool my big boys (they're 13 and 11) and today I just didn't do anything. And now my husband is about to get home and I'm going to get an earful about how they didn't do much school today. At least I made dinner. My toddler has been crying at me for a candy cane for the last 30 minutes and has made any attempt at school lessons throughout the day impossible. When she napped, I napped.

I just want to cry right now, wait, I am crying right now. I'm a big old hormonal mess and wish this day/week could just end already.

/end whine

ghdst1 · December 2011

I hear ya on the change in bed time. DS has always been a good sleeper and in the last week or 2 has been waking up numerous times at night, which messes up his whole schedule for the day with napping and when he goes to bed. Last saturday he woke up at 1am, 3am, and up for the day at 5am. Seriously? Yesterday he was up for the day at 4am after waking up around 1am briefly. Last night was the first time he slept through (knock on wood). Let's hope he is back on track!

KTCaliL · December 2011

I know everyone has different sleep policies with their children, but might I suggest not taking her out of her crib when she wakes up? Maybe she is fussing because she knows you will take her out of her crib when she cries? When my DS wakes in the middle of the night one of us goes in there and rubs his back and tells him everything is okay, but we never take him out. I even do this if DS doesn't want to take a nap. He will stand up and cry for me but I go in there and tell him he can come out after he takes his nap. It usually works for me. I know all kids are different, just offering up what has worked for us. Good luck and hope you feel better soon.

SqueezeTheClay · December 2011

Thanks for the sympathy, I'm feeling better today (she slept through!). It's been a rough week though, she's still screaming and crying at bedtime for 40min to an hour, and in a little house there's no escaping how loud she is.

We do have a no mercy style to bedtime routines, I usually try to just pat her on the back and walk away, but I find with her history of being such a great sleeper, usually when she wakes up there really is something wrong, which was what lead to the spoiling this week. First time there was something "scawy", the second time she actually said a full sentence and asked "I want to sit on yo wap" and I gave in because she was too sweet (so much for no mercy), then the third night she woke up soaked so I had to get her out again.

I'm still not looking forward to naptime today, but at least I'm a little more awake

jennlin · December 2011

sorry it's been rough...but it's okay to have an off-day every once in a while as long as it doesn't affect your boys' education. glad it was better last night!

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