What the hell?

mamarazzi · July 2011

Ruby naps great during the day. She'll take a 2 - 2.5 hour morning nap in her crib no problem. She takes another shorter nap in the afternoon and sometimes one around dinner time.

Our problem is nighttime. She goes down easily at 8pm. We do a bedtime routine with her, and put her down. She sleeps great...for one hour. It never fails. No matter what time we put her down, one hour later, she's up. We can rock her and put her back down and she pops back up. She WILL NOT stay asleep in her crib after the 9pm-ish mark for more than a few minutes. It's weird.

I've had to be up early every morning as I've been watching another child and I don't do well with lack of sleep. Therefore, Ruby just comes to bed with us. We co-slept with Andersen and swore never again, but here she is 5 months and in our bed.

I've tried getting my scent on her blanket, putting a soother in her crib, putting a night light in her room, picking her up and putting her back down, not picking her up and just patting her, a white noise machine, a lovey.

We were going to try CIO a couple weeks ago, but I gave up quickly. *I* just wasn't ready to commit.

Any thoughts on why she's doing this? Suggestions?

AudreyHpbrn · July 2011

sawyer does this. it is as if it is his pre evening nap. he wont go back down unless i offer milk. it may be his nightcap but it works and he sleeps till 5 or 7

mamarazzi · July 2011

Even if I feed her she wakes up crying and wont chill until I pick her up. Rinse and repeat.

hvanack · July 2011

Jocelyn has the KVNO UNO classical station constantly playing in her room. In fact, I NEVER shut it off. Would Ruby be able to hear it if you tried that? Otherwise, I think we did CIO around the age she is now. Sucked but I swore that I would not have another co-sleeper. Now she wakes up like clockwork around 6ish so then she comes in my bed only for about 2 hours before we get up. Oh well, she'll have to get up around that time anyway once I start my new job.

Sorry i'm not much help. What is your bedtime routine? Can you maybe keep her up a little longer or have her skip the last evening nap so she's really tired?

Teresa · July 2011

Does it make any difference if she takes that dinner time nap or not? I'd say try as hard as you can to drop that. Both my kids dropped theirs around 5ish months and that's when they started sleeping longer at night.

kms34 · July 2011

I would drop the evening nap as well. If she's tired at 6, put her to bed. Evan was going to bed at 6 for the longest time. It sucks because it's less time with her for Mike but she might need it.

Amy&Andy · July 2011

My kid did this almost every night from age 6 months to 13 months. It never failed...he would wake up an hour after we put him to bed every night. We would typically just have to go in there and rock him for a couple minutes and he would be fine for a while. He never really STTN consistently until he was about 13 months though...probably my fault for always giving in and rocking him whenever he would cry. And she's probably doing it cause she wants to sleep with you guys and knows that she will get what she wants. It got to the point when he got a little older (like 11 months) where we could get away with just going in and giving him his paci and rubbing his back. After going through it, I wish I would have just accepted the fact that he's a baby, and that's what babies do, even though "they" say that they shouldn't (waking up during the night that is...). As much as it sucked going through it, I'm glad I had those moments with him during the middle of the night. I really miss that time cuddling with him now that I'm not having to do it anymore. Some nights I think about going in there and picking him up and rocking him just for the sake of cuddle time! LOL!

TJ123 · July 2011

Are all the other sleep times during daylight? Maybe her room gets too dark at night and it scares her?

Wilwarin · July 2011

You mentioned she goes down easily at 8:00. How easily? Is it possible she needs to be down earlier? At that age, Andrew was in bed and sleeping by 7:15ish. Sleep begets sleep and maybe she needs an earlier bedtime.

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