She will go down for a nap after playing in her crib, but at night she fights sleep like crazy. Cries as she willingly takes her bottle. Screams as she starts to fall asleep. It's like she is afraid to sleep.
This morning at 4 am I took the bumper off her crib. If I use the tall air mattress we have instead of the short one, I can be almost level with her crib and perhaps with her being able to see me through her crib will help. She has been relatively content in her crib as long as I was standing over her where she could see me.
And article on the subject. I know I am not alone....she sleeps for longer periods now, but the getting to sleep part is killing us.
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Hang in there :::hugs:::
Do you have anyone you could borrow an arms read co-sleeper from? It's just a pack-n-play with a side that goes down to make it level with your bed. But it might help.... i could reach down/over and comfort from my bed, which was nice.
Know that i'm thinking of you guys often and that i wish i could do more. :::hugs:::
Maybe she is afraid she will miss something if she goes to sleep?
So much has changed in her little world and maybe she is afraid that if she misses out on part of the action her world might change again.
Hope you find a solution that works out for all three of you. I had one child that I had to sleep on the floor in his room for weeks before he would sleep on his own.
If you lived closer, I'd let you borrow our Arm's Reach... but really it's a glorified crib. Mine enjoyed playing in it far more than sleeping in it (3x total, I think). Though if seeing you is the key right now, it might work well.
We're having our own share of nighttime fun... hang in there... and know that when you're up at o'dark thirty, other mommas and papas are up with you. (((hugs)))
It took our lil one 10 months before she slept through the night. I talked about it on Rav some and got the book Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child...but we discussed it and established the routine, then let her self-soothe for longer times...well, there are ideas in there.
I have the Adoption Parenting book too and it has lots of ideas in the Sleep section. It seems like it is a matter of experimenting (since the orphanage environment is not one to replicate completely) with white noise, being alone is not something she's used to at all...
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