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glishara ([personal profile] glishara) wrote2007-09-06 10:16 pm

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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. :-/

[identity profile] mereilin.livejournal.com 2007-09-07 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
My kids are little so I never had the height problem, but my little boy was a climber from early on. Before we got him the "big boy bed", which in our case was a toddler bed that used his same mattress and familiar bedding, we dropped the outside rail and put a chair next to his crib. He very happily climbed in and out of his crib without incident. (We didn't want to take the rail off completely because we worried he'd roll out of the crib while he was sleeping.)

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!)

[identity profile] glishara.livejournal.com 2007-09-07 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We're going back to his old bedding tonight -- he actually has the same crib frame, even, because it's a convertible crib/toddler bed. I'm hoping that will show the toddler bed as a sleeping place for him for real.

We'll see, anyway. And thank you! We're pretty excited. :)

[identity profile] rainbowbinky.livejournal.com 2007-09-07 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it a regulard size 'big boy's' bed? Or like a toddler bed? Kelsea was sooo hard to move into a bed of her own. It honestly took us moving into a new house and her having a pink-painted room for her to adjust finally I think :b Kyle could (and still does) sleep anywhere, but Kelsea - ugh. It felt like forever, but it took about three weeks before she made the transition into the toddler bed somewhat alright...though we ended up keeping the toddler bed in our bedroom more often than not. Sometimes we would let her fall asleep in our bed and then would move both her and the toddler bed out into her room - then we'd do this whole, "You slept in your bed in your room ALL NIGHT," production and stuff.

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.

[identity profile] glishara.livejournal.com 2007-09-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's actually a convertible crib -- so it's his old crib with the rail removed. He's just so horrified by it. We'd had new bedding on it last night (pillow, sheet, comforter), and went back to the crib sheet for tonight, so hopefully the familiarity will help.

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. ;)