Taking Life one Day at a time

• Nov. 22, 2006 - Bedtime....at 2yrs

Good Evening all....

I am having a difficult time with my 2yr old and bedtime. UGH! ~ Of course he prefers to sleep in "Mama's bed" (not my doing by the way), he doesn't want to go to bed so he cries and yells in his crib for a bit. My hubby then goes and gets him and lays him in our bed and lets him fall asleep planning to put him back after he is sleeping (Ha! Who falls asleep first?) Anyhow, this has been going on since Halloween basically. I am sooo tired of it! I won't get him, I know he is safe and he is just trying to see who will win, but hubby wants him quiet and sleeping. Mind you we have three kids and he is the baby, he has siblings before him to try this! Mom put an end to that and will have to to this, why won't he realize (my hubby) that its not gonna stop until he cries it out and finally falls asleep! He needs to get thru this in his crib not my bed. Am I right? Am I overreacting? Am I just selfish? UGH! I want a good night sleep and I wan tmy own bed back, not the 12 inches allotted to me when I come to bed! ~

What's a mommy to do?

He is in there rocking as I type with Daddy (the sucker)...

~Julie~

• Nov. 22, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by learningeveryday

I completely understand. Joshua is sleeping in our bed most nights also. He goes to sleep in his own bed but sometime during the night he crawls into our bed. I wake up with a his hand across my face or something similiar. No fun. I sent him back to bed a couple of times so now he knows to crawl in on dad's side and not to wake mom to let him in. Kids are no dummies, they can spot the soft one a mile away. ;-)

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• Apr. 27, 2007 - bedtime

Posted by LanaFalana

just heard of a sleep method this week
maybe it will help if you have not found the solution already
heard it on the show with Matt & Meridith in the morning
You must put the child down to sleep and tell him that you will be doing something new to help them get a good nights sleep and if they cry its ok just continue to reassure them everything is fine, but the key is to look in on them every once in a while if they are still crying and reassure them all is well but not to go in and touch them or pick them up just nods & words of assurance and they will soon get the idea that they must sleep in their own bed and fall asleep on their own without being read a million stories or coming to mommy and daddy's bed. Maybe you can look it up on their web site and get a better explanation of the method.

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