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She did it again...so tired...

brewcitybridebrewcitybride
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DD's been waking up between 2 and 4 a.m. every night, coming into our room, and then one of us has to put her back in her bed and fall asleep with her, otherwise she will fight us and everyone will be up all night. Last night it was my turn - she came into our room at 4:00 a.m., I put her back and fell asleep in her bed, and then it took me an hour to fall back to sleep, and then I had to wake up at 6:30 a.m. Thoughts? Advice? If I just march her back to her room and tell her to go to sleep, she fights me and will keep coming back to our room. I work full time and have two children. I am already so exhausted. I just don't know how to get her to stay in her room!! Oh, also, this just started happening in the past month. Before that, she slept through the night like a dream.
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Re: She did it again...so tired...

  • KathrynMDKathrynMD member

    did you try the reward chart?

    also - get one of those covers so she can't get out of her room.

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  • Stackeye210Stackeye210 member

    We were having this issue for a while and it was stressing us all out.  A sticker chart ended it almost instantly!  If she slept through the night, meaning didn't call for us or get out of bed, she got a sticker.  After 5 stickers on the chart she got a big sticker to keep.  After 10 stickers in a row (no days in between of getting out of bed) then she got a surprise, which was I want to say a jump rope or something.  After that we kind of eased up on the stickers and now she sleeps just fine through the night with no chart. 

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  • monica3245monica3245
    imageStackeye210:
    We were having this issue for a while and it was stressing us all out.nbsp; A sticker chart ended it almost instantly!nbsp; If she slept through the night, meaning didn't call for us or get out of bed, she got a sticker.nbsp; After 5 stickers on the chart she got a big sticker to keep.nbsp; After 10 stickers in a row no days in between of getting out of
    bed then she got a surprise, which was I want to say a jump rope or something.nbsp; After that we kind
    of eased up on the stickers and now she sleeps just fine through the night with no chart.nbsp;




    Same here. Sticker chart was the key and now it is such a distant memory as all phases tend to be. I think I try to block out the bad/sleepless/pain in the butt phases : good luck and this too shall pass!!
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  • RnMom2BeRnMom2Be
    We started a sticker chart a few days ago and so far, so good!
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  • Angela814Angela814 member

    I think my situation was different, because DD1 never sttn in her own room at that age. She had been coming into our bed after her first waking since she was an infant. At 3-4 years she would just crawl in and go right back to sleep. I didn't even wake up at that point anymore. We tried sticker charts to keep her in her bed, rewards, a tent over her bed, extra night lights... Nothing worked, and putting her back in her bed just made me more tired the next day since I physically had to get up. The only thing that worked was time. When she turned 5, it was like a light switched. She pretty suddenly started sttn with no intervention from us.

    Did anything change last month? The start of preschool? A movie that might be giving her nightmares? I think I would try to figure out why the night wakings started and then work with her about what might make her sleep better at night. Pick out a new stuffed animal or a nightlight or something that she gets to keep if she stays in her bed all night.

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