So...Ellie has some serious sleep issues. I don't even care so much about the rough bedtimes right now; I just need her to nap. She will not nap! This morning she finally feel asleep after an hour of work and her nap lasted a whopping 10 minutes. In the afternoon she took about a 30 minute nap in the car. That was it! And most of my day was spent trying to get her to nap. The other day I was so desperate for her to nap that I drove around until she fell asleep and then sat in the mall parking lot for an hour and a half while she slept. Gas is too expensive for this! :-) It's not that I just want the free time a nap would provide (although I wouldn't mind it) it's that she has been progressively more grumpy and fussy each day because she is so tired.
My long awaited book arrived this week. So far what I have gotten from it is that Ellie is sleep deprived and that is bad for her. (If I didn't already know this I wouldn't have ordered a book!) It is all mostly about timing; that if they get overtired that won't sleep well. This is a problem since she is overtired...how do I get her over this so we can get into a good pattern?? Any suggestions for my strong-willed child???
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Hey! Caden is only taking short naps a lot of the time and isn't sleeping all through the night. However, he falls asleep right when I lay him down at 8pm and sometimes wakes up in between 12-3am and then sleeps til 6 or so. We do the cry it out...he only cried it out a few evenings and he is VERY strong willed.
Did you try cry it out?
We have tried it, and we are getting more serious about it. She will cry for more than an hour at a time and the time doesn't seem to be shortening. It just makes me nauseous to listen to her cry so much! Tyler is trying to help me be strong :-) and we are really trying to stick with letting her cry this week. Hopefully it will work!!
oh my. i wish i had some advice for you. hopefully your book soon becomes more beneficial! i know my sister went through 2 hours of kadin crying...i'll see if she has any advice or words of encouragement for you.
did you ever buy that seahorse?
I didn't. We have a glowworm that is similar and she isn't that interested in it.
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