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Wesley is asleep, curled up in a still-sniffling ball right next to the door. It took around 2 hours and fifteen minutes from when we put him down until when he stopped screaming, with us periodically returning upstairs to say, "Wesley, I love you, but it's bedtime." He does not seem to hate the bed: when I was up there with him, he lay there for a long time while I sang and talked to him. He just didn't want to go to sleep, and without the crib, I think, felt more abandoned. It wasn't a familiar kind of being without his parents. He was just alone in his big room.
I wish so profoundly that we could wait a year or so for this, but he's trying to climb out of his crib now and all of the books say once they get to 36 inches (Wesley's 37), it's just a matter of technique, and could happen any day. But I hate how unhappy he is, and I don't know how to fix it. We'll try a few more days, and then let him lapse back if it doesn't improve. If we need to do that, we'll give him a week in his crib, then try a tricksy plan to adjust him slowly.
He just doesn't understand, and I hate my inability to explain it.
This sucks. :-/
I wish so profoundly that we could wait a year or so for this, but he's trying to climb out of his crib now and all of the books say once they get to 36 inches (Wesley's 37), it's just a matter of technique, and could happen any day. But I hate how unhappy he is, and I don't know how to fix it. We'll try a few more days, and then let him lapse back if it doesn't improve. If we need to do that, we'll give him a week in his crib, then try a tricksy plan to adjust him slowly.
He just doesn't understand, and I hate my inability to explain it.
This sucks. :-/
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It's so hard when their little bodies grow faster than their reasoning capacities. I wish you the very best of luck with all of this (and because I don't think I said it already, congratulations on your new daughter!)
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We'll see, anyway. And thank you! We're pretty excited. :)
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It might just be a phase - albeit a frustrating one no doubt. Kyle, who used to sleep from 7pm to 7am as a toddler, is now up until 10 or 11pm every night...he just doesn't like to go to sleep, while Kelsea? If she makes it to 9pm it's something :b So! Hang in there I guess :) Mine, at least, changed their sleeping habits so much between the ages of two and five that I still wonder how we got through it - hee.
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I think it's usually easier with second kids, from what I hear. I just don't know how to address the problem, because I can't tell how much of what I'm saying he's understanding. Bad mommy-guilt. ;)