OMG Abby will not go back to sleep. Here it is 4:45am and I have been up with her since 2:30. I knew it was going to be a bad night because when I went to get her out of her crib to give her a bottle she smiled at me. That usually means to her PLAY TIME! I just ignore the smile hoping she will go back to sleep easy and don't play with her. I have tried everything I can do to put her to sleep and it's not working. I fed her a bottle and she was asleep until I put her back in her crib then it was on. I tried giving her her binki that didn't work so I sat there with her rubbing her head hoping to make her tired and fall asleep and that didn't work. She just fought it. I can't leave her in there to cry at this time of night or morning however u want to look at it, because she shares a room with her big sister. So I brought her back into the livingroom thinking she wanted more time to snuggle with mama and that didn't work. I gave her her binki because she likes to have something to suck on when trying to go to sleep and that didn't work. I got her another bottle thinking she might be hungry and that didn't even work. She ended up hitting the bottle out of my hand. I put her in her car seat because sometimes that works when nothing else does and that didn't even work. She got really pissed and started screaming and crying so I propped her bottle up while she was in the car seat because sometimes that works as well and she wasn't having that either. She knocked it off into the floor. I even tried putting her in front of the tv hoping that would work. Guess what? It didn't! She is usually only up for an hour. I don't know what her deal is but she did not want anything to do with me after she figured out I wasn't going to play with her in the middle of the night. I have tried the CIO method during the day at nap time and a couple times at bed time because she goes to bed earlier than big sister does. Each time I ended up having to go in there and get her because she would cry so hard like someone was seriously hurting her and she would make herself sick. I don't know what else to do. Do u ladies have any suggestions for me? Am I doing something wrong? My 5 year old daughter didn't have a problem sleeping until she was 1.5 years old. I used the CIO method with her then and that worked wonders but Abby is so stubborn. It seems like there is no trying to convince her. If u have any suggestions I would love to hear them. No bashing if u don't agree with how I raise my children. If u don't like it please don't respond.
Somethings I do to get mine to sleep is put him in his crib and vacuum his room in the dark till he falls a sleep. I have even put him in his swing in the kitchen and turned on the exhaust fan, Sometimes it works well
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- Abby1108
on Apr. 8, 2009 at 6:09 AM