Bedtime troubles

[sara76]

It only started Saturday night. She starts screaming bloody murder the second you put her down in her crib. I've been keeping her up and I can't keep doing it because no matter what time it is or how tired she is she still cries. She's been crying in her crib for 18 minutes now. She's calming down but still sitting up. It physically hurts me to hear her cry but rocking her doesn't work, and keeping her up just prolongs it. I have spent literally every second of Sun-Thurs working on getting her to sleep tear free and no luck. Need a hug. I guess this is payback for her being such a good sleeper for the last 6 months.

[sara76]

Ugh. 22 minutes and she's asleep. This is hard.

[aegis2005]

I'm sorry. I have no advice because I can't last longer than 2 minutes when he's crying ...

[sara76]

May 16, 2013 20:45:12 GMT -5 aegis2005 said:

I'm sorry. I have no advice because I can't last longer than 2 minutes when he's crying ...

I was totally that way until she started walking. Especially when you're nursing and the baby is still growing and needs food. I hate hate hate hearing her cry but now that she's over a year and she's been on the go for 12 hours and MUST be tired but won't quit sometimes I feel like there's nothing else to do and its awful. I'm pretty sure tonight is the record length. But that baby needs to sleep. We had SUCH a great day. She was non stop and had so much fun and now that baby needs her rest. But she's so damn stubborn. Or something. Ah. I'm starting to get anxiety about it.

[tashaandsage]

I remember Maisy went through a little stage sometime around A's age where bedtime became suddenly rough. I can't remember now what we actually did, but I do know it was a short lived phase, and ever since then she has been really, really easy to put down. Hopefully this phase will pass for you quickly too.

[etteyam]

DD1 went through this phase at around 18 months. We just ignored it; she'd cry for 30 mins at least. When she realized she wasn't getting any attention from us, she eventually stopped.

[sara76]

Ok thanks for that ladies. She's starting to become even more active, like climbing ladders and stuff so maybe this is one of those normal developmental stages.

[sara76]

I just wanted to celebrate that last night was tear free and she slept through the night. I work tonight and Monday so grandma puts her to bed tonight and Monday it's her dad, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[babybchbum]

Glad to hear Sara

[sara76]

Have I mentioned lately? Fuck bedtime.