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Over the summer it was daddy now it's back to all mommy all the time.

@Anagram: yeah ours are still nightly too. I'm worried about when baby comes and he still insists on mommy

@travellingbee: this is what we are dealing with right now. DH goes in to comfort the toddler and she keeps crying and insisting on Mummy. But I am ebf the 6 week old so i have to deal with that too. Ugh, this too shall pass.

Always mommy. But she is ok if daddy comes instead. He's been taking most of the night time wakings, partly because he will be taking them all when I'm up breastfeeding the new baby, so we want her to be used to it, and mostly because I'm so freaking tired while pregnant that I can't get through the day when I'm up with her at night. Like I have meltdowns all day long- I'm worse than the toddler.

She doesn't, she just cries. Its usually me who goes in though. If DH goes in, she asks for me.

@travellingbee: we started early in my pregnancy, because I was super sick, from 5.5-23 weeks and on 3 anti nausea drugs that all have dizziness and drowsiness as side effects (and I was still working full time). So very early on, DH had to take over night wakeups. That made it handy for when the baby arrived, so now we each have one kid.

As with any transition, it takes persistence. She used to take turns calling for mama and daddy, and the first few times she called for mama and I didn't go, she was upset. But then she got used to it after a few nights.

"mammmmmmaaaaaaaaaa"

Sometimes he calls for Mommy, but Daddy gets up, and that's usually okay. Most of the time he just gets up and crawls into our bed and cuddles with me for a few minutes until he's calm, and then D takes him back to his room.

D and I have an arrangement that if he wakes up before 6:15 D takes care of it (he works second shift so he doesn't have to be up nearly as early as me). Great in theory, but in reality E usually wants to at least see/hug me for a minute, and that's okay, since I can at least stay in bed for it

Baby calls for Mama, big sister just shows up in my bed when I wake up.

Always, always mommy.