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October 2011 Moms
Who has the baby that sleeps on the mattress on the floor?
For mobile users: Who has the baby that sleeps on the mattress on the floor?
You mentioned in my post about putting DS in a toddler bed, that your baby sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
DS is great at sleeping in his bed at night. He goes down just like he did in the crib. Nap times are the biggest battles. Granted we are down from 2 hours to get him to go to sleep to half an hour but the kid fights sleep during the day like it's his damn job now. I basically have to sit on the floor beside his bed looking at him to make sure he stays in it until he falls asleep.
Leaving him in his room to put himself to bed is a pipe dream. Did that the other day and he just trashed his room and played for 4 hours.
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Re: Who has the baby that sleeps on the mattress on the floor?
I do. I don't know if other people do, too...
It's a Montessori thing. We babyproofed her room and removed all but one or two toys, the glider, the changing table, and her mattress. I still put her to bed, but she goes down awake. When she wakes up she goes to the door, opens it, and comes down the hall to our room to get us. If you don't want your little one getting out you can put up a baby gate.
She will not put herself down during the day. At night sometimes when she wakes up she'll put herself back down, or if I put her down and she's not 100% down I'll leave the door closed and she'll work it out. But during the day it's too bright in there for her to calm herself down, she gets too distracted, even with the blackout curtains.
Are you still doing 2 naps a day? We are flirting with 1. I just wait until she's totally exhausted and she usually falls asleep in my arms in the glider or right when I put her down on the mattress.
I think it's just a learning process. I find the floor bed so much easier because I have a bad back and being able to touch her and back away bit by bit really helps. If your DS needs you next to him the floor mattress is really nice. Have you tried the Sleep Lady Shuffle? It didn't work for us but some people love it.
DS doesn't really like to be touched when he is trying to sleep. Bedtime is super easy. I put him in bed, I read a story, I give him a hug and that's it. He's down. For naps he is just too distracted. He should still be having two but it takes so long to get him down for his first one that by the time he wakes up it's past the time I would be willing to let him have a second nap. I will look into the sleep lady shuffle. Thanks!
The first few nights I definitely found her in funny places around the room, but that settled itself within a few days. the idea is that they learn it while the bed is on the floor so when it's time to transition to a real bed on a frame they already know how to stay on the mattress.
It was me. Sorry it's so rough! We don't leave him awake. We always lay with him until he's asleep. He was a 2x CIO flunkie so he would lose his mind if we left him in there alone. Our plan is to eventually do progressive waiting, where we run out for a moment to get something and get him use to us leaving and then go out for longer intervals until he is ok being in his room alone. My guess, it'll be somewhere around his high school graduation when he can out himself to sleep. When he wakes up he reads books or cried for us, but yeah.. leaving him alone to figure it out would be a door banging, melt down of a disaster.
What's your plan? I imagine trashing his room will get old and he'll eventually sleep? Maybe?