How long did you giver your nap refuser before you just gave up on getting them to take a nap? My recently turned 2 year old is no longer napping probably 5 out of 7 days. So, how long did you give them before you went in and got them up each day? How many days or weeks did you give it before you no longer put them down for a nap?
Oh, and did you change their bedtime at all if they didn't get a nap in?
My first acted like that around 8 months. I was not really enjoying nursing and didn't want to force it on him, so I figured it was an easy way to painlessly be done.
1 How old is your baby? Height / weight if you know it.
2 How is your physical recovery?
3 How is sleep going?
4 How is the rest of the family adjusting?
5 Anything else. PIPs welcome
1. He is 5.5 weeks. Haven't been back to the doctor since he was 4 days old, so not sure of exact height or weight. 2. Great, I think I am pretty much back to normal. My 6 week pp appointment is next Wednesday. 3. Sleep is better than with our first son. C seems to be up 2-3 times a night. He goes from 10:00 to 2:00 and then back down until 5:00 or so. A few times he has given us longer stretches, but sometimes he is tough to get back to sleep. 4. My H is great. He really does a great job with the baby and so far has been able to work from home about once a week. Z (2 years on Monday) is a great big brother. He loves to show his little brother off to everyone. He does get a little rough with him once in a while, and has a hard time not having all of our attention but he is doing better with things than we expected.
I would discontinue morning tv time. I find that this is such a hard part of parenting. I find that I am always taking away or not getting fun things because I don't want him to throw a fit when it is time for something else. I feel like a mean parent, but he just struggles to move on from something that he loves, like I am sure many kids do.
Thanks everyone for the ideas. It is tough to control and ignore him, especially in public places. My husband is having an especially hard time with it.
My almost 23 month old has turned into a screamer. If he is told "no" he screams. If he is bored he screams, and many other times for undetermined reasons. It is a high pitched screech. We have tried telling him to stop, whispering to him to stop, moving him to another room alone and telling him that he can rejoin us when he stops, making a big deal of good behavior, yelling at him to stop. Any suggestions on how to get him to actually stop? It is wearing on us and with a new little brother coming any day now I am worried that it is only going to get worse.