Toddler sleep Q

[karebear219]

I'm not sure who might have advice, but I'll give it a shot.

Bkb has been very good at going to bed. We tuck her in say goodnight and she goes to bed on her own. The last two weeks she's started to whimper when we go to leave and when we leave the room she'll cry for mommy and daddy. So we've been going back and consoling her until she goes to sleep most nights. At first I thought it was teething. Then maybe developmental. Her speech and hand eye coordination have exploded the last couple days.

Anyone else been through this to give me some insight or ideas. I miss spending time with H. Now that he's working weekends I don't get to see him at all.

[dana86]

M has done something similar where she would call out for me. It was more of a try at extending the bedtime process. I would usually go in once or twice to calm her down and remind her its bedtime and then leave. Anything after that I would let her CIO since she was probably around 18 months if not older when she did it. Usually after that she would cry and try to call for me then just fall asleep or talk to herself and then fall asleep.

With M she's a habit kind of girl and as long as we can break it after a night or two she usually stops and is good. In this case once she knew we were on to her it eventually stopped

[picksthemusic]

M has been trying to extend the bedtime routine too. One more book, mommy. One more kiss, mommy. One more song, mommy. She doesn't cry or whimper much, but if she hasn't had adequate time to calm down before bed (like if J decides to do a tickle party while getting her in her PJs), then it's much harder to get her down at her 8pm bedtime on time.

My suggestion would be to make sure if you have a bedtime routine, to stick with it. M does much better when we're consistent with milk, stories, brush teeth, change into PJs, singing/one more story, then kisses/goodnight Daddy, then bed. If she whines (M will ask for cheese sometimes as a last resort - I can't deny her food and she knows it LOL), I'll give in to one thing, but we never take her out of her room, or turn on the lights. Then she has to put herself to sleep. The only other exception is if she wakes up in the middle of the night screaming because of a bad dream or something, then we of course respond.

[shevacc]

I don't have any advice since G is a bit younger but she still definitely seems more clingy right around developmental leaps. I would imagine that pattern would continue for a while longer.

[jennlin]

I am not one to give advice about sleeping because I have 2 kids in my bed not STTN.

[karebear219]

Last night we made sure to say goodnight to her stuffed animals too and that seemed to help. When h tries to leave her he doesn't tell her he's leaving and just tries to sneak out. That makes her even more upset. I left saying goodbye and settling her into bed again. That worked last night. We'll see what tonight brings.