My two pronged vent

[bronxgirl]

I'm too tired to start 2 separate threads so I'm putting it all together. I'm so frustrated this evening I just need to whine for a little bit.
1) DD's sleep has been bad the past few months, but for the past month we got into a routine (take her for a walk in her stroller and eventually she falls asleep) that's not great, but was at least working. The past two nights she's even refusing that and staying up late with tantrums. It's so frustrating and so draining. Luckily she just fell asleep, but I don't know what to do. So far the doctor has not been much help

2) We're TTC #2 and having problems. I shouldn't be surprised b/c we needed fertility tx for DD, but I was really hoping by some miracle it would happen for us without intervention. The good and bad news is that I know what to expect this time around, but I think my job is going to give me a lot of grief with possibly needing to come in late on clinic AMs. I'm dreading the whole thing, but really want another baby, so I've got to do it.

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1. have you done CIO? honestly, we did it about 3 months ago, and moved her to the big girl bed, and night time has never been so easy. I couldn't do it when she was younger, but at 2.5, it was time.

2. I'm sorry

[bronxgirl]

May 14, 2012 21:26:06 GMT -5 @iheartcosmos said:

1. have you done CIO? honestly, we did it about 3 months ago, and moved her to the big girl bed, and night time has never been so easy. I couldn't do it when she was younger, but at 2.5, it was time.

2. I'm sorry

We've done that when she was still in her crib, but now that she's in a toddler bed we can't. Her room doesn't have a door so we out a gate up but she now learned how to open the gate and walk out. Previously before she could open the gate she would get so angry that she would bang on the gate and it would fall down.

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May 14, 2012 21:38:58 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

May 14, 2012 21:26:06 GMT -5 @iheartcosmos said:

1. have you done CIO? honestly, we did it about 3 months ago, and moved her to the big girl bed, and night time has never been so easy. I couldn't do it when she was younger, but at 2.5, it was time.

2. I'm sorry

We've done that when she was still in her crib, but now that she's in a toddler bed we can't. Her room doesn't have a door so we out a gate up but she now learned how to open the gate and walk out. Previously before she could open the gate she would get so angry that she would bang on the gate and it would fall down.

oh that stinks. I dont have any solutions. I just closed the door and let her cry for 2 nights and by night 3, the tantrums stopped.

[ijack]

Ugh, I'm sorry on both counts

[bronxgirl]

We're at the top of the list for a 2BR apartment and when that happens and we move she'll have a real room with a door we can close. When I finally do get PG she'll eventually have to share he room so I fear how this situation will play out in a few years, although I am getting rather ahead of myself.

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We had the same problems with my older son. When he grew tall enough to climb over the little baby gate we put up, we bought a taller gate

If you sit by her door and just put her back to bed every time she gets out, she'll eventually learn that it's not worth it to try. It'll be annoying and exhausting to do this and you might have to do it 20x a night for two weeks but it'll teach her that night time is for sleeping in her bed and not time to play with mommy and daddy, which is what she wants. GL, I know how hard it is to transition kids to beds they can climb out of.

Also, I'm sorry to hear about #2, that must be really hard.

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Many ::hugs:: to you. I do like violet's suggestions though.

[megs193]

We moved our son to a twin bed a few weeks ago and had a similar problem. He can open doors and baby gates so there was no way to contain him. This is probably an example of awful parenting but we ended up bribing him. We would tell him if he didn't get up out of his bed he would get a toy in the morning. I bought a few inexpensive toys and after a week he was going to bed much easier. He still finds a reason to come out once or twice but it beats 2 hours. If your DD has a hard time staying asleep all night I highly recommend the tot clock. The face of the clock turns yellow when it is time to wake up so my son knows if he wakes up and it is blue he has to go back to sleep.