Ok I am feeling like a terrible parent right now. DH is out of town has been since Monday. Izzy was a bear at bedtime last night cried for an hour with me going in every 10 minutes or so. See,now that she can stand up in her bed she will just stand there and cry. So.....tonight i knew she was exhausted because she hardly napped this afternoon. I gave her her evening bottle in her room in the dark after her bath like we do everynight, she was sleepy i put her on my shoulder to rock her and she picks her head up and is smiling at me...............i know right then we are gonna battle.
So i put her to bed say goodnight i love you, and walk out. About 2 minutes later she starts the crying, which escalates to SCREAMING, i tell myself i need to be strong, and let her CIO so i let her go about 5-10 minutes, call DH talk to him for 10 more minutes before i tell him i can't take it anymore and i am going in. I hang up with him and get to outside her door and can her, she is done crying and just light fussing trying to catch her breathe after crying so hard. WHO HOOOH i did it!!! I then make dinner and about 30 min later she is crying again. I go up give her her pacifier pat her butt and walk out and think she is sleeping. I then get in the shower and take a LONG HOT shower, it was great...until i got out and realized she was screaming again. I put a towel on my head and robe and went up stairs. She was awake but not really and crying, so i picked her up and she stopped crying and we sat in the rocking chair. It took her 15 minutes before she was breathing normally....I almost thought I was going to have to take her to the ER, i mean she was sleeping but kept kinda gasping for air. She did settle down and was breathing fine when I put her to bed but talk about freaking me out and making me feel TERRIBLE.
So to all you moms out there, how do you deal with bedtime, when the baby just stands up and crys, and if you go in there she stops and smiles at you. She was clearly WAY to worked up from her half hour crying episode, that I don't know that I can let her do that again........but I need to do something.......what do i do????????????????? Any tips???????? Until her recent aquired skill of pulling up on everything most night she would go to sleep without trouble, maybe once a week we had to go up and settle her down but most night she would just go to sleep.....what changed? Is this normal? What do I do?
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You are NOT a bad mom!! You're an awesome mom! It's a hard phase, I'm sure. I dread when Lily can stand up in her crib. It's funny you post this now because we struggled like CRAZY with naps today. She'd fall asleep for like ten minutes and then be up jabbering or crying depending on the time. She's exhausted now, but I have no clue what to do with her. These girls! :)
My sister and SIL (the mom's of the kids) are BOTH photographers :-) How great is that?
Sweet Pea did the same thing at that stage. Bed time was a horrible battle and I tried everything. What seemed to work best was putting her crib toys low so she could kick them with her feet, rather than having to sit/stand to play with them. She would lay on her back and be occupied by kicking and watching the lights.
... that was until she discovered she could use it as leverage and attempt to escape her crib by CLIMBING up on it. It's back up again now but the sleeptime issues have passed as well.
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