We moved our daughter to a toddler bed from her crib about a month ago. She was @30 months at the time. Anyway, she has always taken around 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to fall asleep and would play in her crib or ask us for water, food, etc. Now that she is "free" she is having a hard time staying in her bed. Rachel wants to run go potty 2-3 times and often she goes so we don't want to say no. Her routine is bath or 2nd dinner, go potty, put on PJs, brush teeth, read one book, say prayers and bed.
Now she wants a stuffed animal to sleep with her and then she talks or plays with it so she doesn't fall alseep. When we send to bed without one she'll talk to imaginary friends or ask for food saying she's hungry, or water. We know she's stalling. We'll try to do all those things before she goes to bed so we can tell her we've already done them. She is stubborn and if we don't bring her water, she doesn't just cry for awhile look most kids, she'll just keep on crying and asking for an hour or two. Or, she'll run out of her bed, we put her back, she runs out of her bed. We have even tried bribing her by saying we'll buy her a princess bed WHEN she learns how to sleep in her bed and stay there.
If she wakes up in the night, our daughter will come into our room and want to sleep with us. I haven't wanted to create this pattern so I take her back to her room and then the cycle starts again. By the time our daughter is asleep, I'm wide awake and not able to go back to sleep. Any and all ideas are welcome. Thanks! DH and I want some personal time back and sleep!
My daughter was moved to a toddler bed at 1 and she never got out of bed unless she woke up scared in the middle of the night and came to our bed, for her Birthday last year my Mom got her a twin size bed because she kept getting in our bed and it was too crowded, so moving her to the twin size bed she loved because she had plenty of space to move around (she turns a lot in her sleep) and she started this thing at my Father In laws house when we lived there where she would tell us every night that she was scared of her room and that she didnt want to go night night in there and ever since we have moved into our new house she gets a bath at 8:30 and is in bed by 9 or 9:30 and I just take her in there and tuck her in, tell her I love her and night night, and she is fine and goes to sleep on her own. She will ask every now and again for a drink but since she is potty trained, I tell her she can have a drink in the morning when she wakes up because if she drinks too much then she will pee the bed and she is fine with that because she doesnt want to mess up her panties or her Hello Kitty sheets...That was a big thing for us to get her comfortable was to get her a bedset that she really likes (Hello Kitty) and she loves to go to sleep in her room since she has a Kitty on her bed! Good Luck Momma!
Thanks for your input Bezie and BensMommi. I think I will try both of your suggestions. I will try to firm up her bath routine. And, maybe buy her that twin princess bed with a sheet set she picks out (she loves hello kitty) sooner rather than later. If neither of those seem to work, I will then call my doctor.
New to the group- hello! My son was born in April 2009.
I'm running into similar problems since my son moved to his own bed, and I'm exhausted. We always had a routine, but that doesn't seem to do the trick anymore. His mind won't seem to quiet down (he's bit too smart for his own good)-- he'll get new ideas of things to do-- go potty, go bring a toy in his room, fix theway something is arranged in his room, go running to see daddy in the living room while doing a mischievious laugh. Sometimes he does settle down and be near sleep only to get another burst of energy, and start the cycle again.
We have tried telling him that he'll only get to do X (something he wants do) tomorrow if he stays in his bed and rests. We have tried letting him have a book to look at (there's enough light from the hall) but that mommy doesn't read. I'm sure there are other things we have tried, but they don't work consistently.
For the last two nights, I fell asleep before my son (thank you, husband)!
Stepof5,what has now worked for you (if anything)? What do others think? THANKS!
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- stepof5
on Jul. 24, 2012 at 7:27 PM