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April 2012 Moms
CJPowers
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Crying ALL the time
CJPowers
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My DD is constantly crying all the time. She is at a center day care all day. I drop her off at 8:15 and I pick her up at 4:15. She loves it there and she has never cried when I drop her off. She loves it! Well, for the past 3 weeks she has been crying non-stop at home. I pick her up and she is quiet in the car, then when we walk in the house the torture (for me) begins. I am alone at home till DH gets home after she is in bed most nights. So I try to feed her right away but I have to prepare her dinner, which takes time. Then I try to do dishes or laundry or prepare dinner, but she just crys and walks over to me and hangs on my leg crying. I have to hold her for her to stop crying. I try to put her down to play with her or read a book but she just cries and cries. I start the bed time routine around 6:30 if we do a bath and 7:00 if we don't. I can't even read books anymore because she just cries. I change her (she is screaming the whole time), BF her, and put her to bed awake and walk out. She usually falls asleep by 7:45 and is awake at 7:00 the next morning. She likes to lay in bed and fall asleep on her own (at least she is good about that). So what is the deal? She takes two 30 minute naps at day care. She eats 3 meals and 2 snacks. Could it be the naps?
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Re: Crying ALL the time
BF help & support * My Charts
She doesn't cry in the morning because I ususally wake her up at 7:00 and we pack the car and go. She will sometimes fall asleep in the car on the way home and I will wake her up (20 minute drive). I never let her nap after we get home because I thought it was too close to her 7:00 bedtime. Should I let her nap at 5:00? Why can't they get her to sleep longer at day care!! grrr!
We let both kids nap on the ride home from daycare and then continue the nap if they want to on the couch or floor while we still do loud things and hope they wake up naturally. That can go up to around 7pm, but then we just proceed with business as usual when they wake up (dinner/snack, bath, bed). It might bump bedtime back from 8 to 8:30, but they usually go down OK.
2x30minute naps doesn't sound like enough! That is such a bummer!
The hardest part I find about being a working mom is that we only get our kids at their worst.
If my DD needs it I won't hesitate to put her down for a nap later in the day. A couple times I didn't and she would just cry and wouldn't even want to be in her highchair to eat. As dixee said, it might push back bedtime a little, but otherwise it's fine. We have a 30-35 min drive home from most places we go and I've found that if she takes a short nap in the car, she won't always go back down at home. So if you try the nap and it doesn't take, maybe next time try keeping her awake for the drive home.
Does she only take those two short naps on the weekends?
BF help & support * My Charts
So today DD fell asleep in the car on the way home and I transferred her to her crib for her to sleep (I usually wake her up). She slept for 35 minutes. She has not been crying much. She's usually asleep by now, but I will take a later bedtime over the crying any day. I knew my bump buddies could help out!
As for the nap questions... She takes two long 1 to 1 1/2 hour naps on the weekend! She has been in day care for 8 months and has never taken more than 2 30 minute naps. They don't know what to do because she wakes up after 30 minutes on the dot! They can't get her back down because all the other kids are there playing. They even have her in the far back corner. Not sure we can change that.