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@JoJoGirl: very true. You win! or lose!
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Ugh. You guys might know that we've been dealing with wakeups as early as 3:30am lately (baby girl, 3:30am is STILL NIGHTTIME and absolutely not acceptable). We literally tried everything and concluded that it was just a phase, and thankfully we were right. Lately she is waking up between 5 and 5:30, and we're very very happy with that!
We went to a friend's house and their daughter had glow in the dark stars on the ceiling which LMW fell in love with. I ordered some and I want to put them on her ceiling, and then I read in the reviews that one mom used them as incentive for napping-- every day her son took a nap, he got another star stuck on his ceiling. I'd LOVE to use these as incentive too, but how do I do it?? Every night you don't cry before you sleep, you get another star...? But she is totally fine and happy until after we say goodnight and close the door. The only way I can think of using them for incentive for no crying at bedtime is to take a star AWAY if she cries, which is the opposite (negative connotation) of what I want to do!
I'm thinking for the mornings we can get one of those clocks and if she waits until it turns green, she gets a new star. But honestly, the mornings aren't so bad for us (Wagon Sr. usually wakes around 5 to go for a run anyway so he just takes her in the stroller with him)... it's really more the evenings.
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@mrs. wagon: for the stars, what is the behavior you want and what don't you want? If you can think about the behavior you want to encourage (quiet resting before sleep?) rather than discourage (crying?) than it is usually easier to tie the positive incentive to the desired behavior. Does that help?
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@MamaCate: I don't want her to cry before falling asleep (she's totally happy and says goodnight, i love you, I no cry until we leave and shut the door, then she cries for 20-45 minutes no matter how many times we do or don't go back in to say goodnight again. Then she wakes once or twice, sometimes at 10pm and always around midnight, screaming and runs around the room, etc. Cries for about 15-30 mins then falls back asleep. I'm wondering how to reward her for this... a new star in the morning if she doesn't cry? I don't think she'll EVER earn her first star!!
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My LO is a 5.30 to 6am sorta guy (and for us anything after 5.30 is an improvement!), and there is no way in hell he is going back to sleep once he's woken - especially once he sees me or DH.
He's not a toddler, he's only 9.5 months - so maybe this is too simplistic for toddlers (I really hope not - although I guess the novelty will wear off at some point!), but what we have done is to set up a bubble fish lamp (like a smaller version of what they have in sensory rooms, about a metre high) in his room. It is connected to something called a WeMo, which means we can turn it on via iPhone (you see where I am going here!). We never have it on during the day as I don't want him to get bored of it, but as soon as we hear him stirring in the morning we switch it on from our bed, and it buys us another half hour or so of sleep while he lays there gazing at his fish!
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Okay I need to resurrect this thread.... once again has anyone had luck getting their toddler to sleep in? Our 17 month old is now getting up at 4:45am.
We're 6 weeks into this mess.
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@JoJoGirl: What time is bedtime? Have you tried pushing that back?
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@Smurfette: Back meaning later or earlier? We've tried moving it earlier the last 2 nights. Yesterday morning she actually slept til 6:15am but I think that's because she didn't nap at ALL that day. Last night we put her to bed early again and she was up at 4:45am
We tried moving it 30 mins later last week and she got up early too.
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@JoJoGirl: Later. When we switched day cares, and R's nap time changed, she started going to bed later and then started sleeping later in the AM. It took a couple weeks but she did start sleeping in later. What time is her nap?
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@Smurfette: Usually around 12:30-1. She's been falling asleep at the lunch table the last couple of days.
She often sleeps for 2-3 hours, so I started asking the teacher to wake her after 2 so it doesn't take away from her night sleep.
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@JoJoGirl: Poor girl!! She is waking up so early, hard to stay awake. I don't know what you can do. I am sorry!!
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@Smurfette: Also I read this; http://childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/early-or-late-bedtime-which-is-right/ and it sounds like I'm supposed to put her to bed early for a few days to help her catch up on sleep and then start putting her down later..?? Haha I don't know either. Thanks though
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@JoJoGirl: Yeah that is tough. I would try the earlier sleep and then work on pushing it back.
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@Smurfette: Question - the blog says if we put her to bed later and then she sleeps later, we should be able to push her bedtime back earlier without affecting her wake time. Have you guys done this? Or you just put her to bed later now permanently? I need my free hour in the evenings
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@JoJoGirl: Nope she goes to bed at 8 no matter what. We put her down at 730, cause she takes 20-30 mins to fall asleep. Very rare it is faster. We have put her down at 7 when she has a bad nap and it is still 8 before she goes to sleep.
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@Smurfette: Wow, that's nuts. A is so sleep-deprived from getting up so early every day, she falls asleep as early as 6:45pm when we put her down
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@JoJoGirl: I have come to realize that she just has low sleep needs. Clearly she isn't our child.
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@Smurfette: Haha. I think we're headed in that same direction.
We're 6 weeks into this mess.
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