Parenting Toddlers (1-3) Support Group

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joleneLS 06/20/2011

Marlow is 22 months, and she started sleeping through the night at a year. For the last month she has been waking up, every...single...night. Between 11pm and 2am. And she stays awake, albeit, snuggling on the couch, until as late as 4am. I'm exhausted!

We have tried comforting her in her crib, I was in her room for three hours. We have tried cry it out, it was another two hours of crying with screams in the middle, until I caved(and it was painful to wait that long). We have tried giving her a drink, changing her diaper. I even gave her tylenol since she is breaking some eyeteeth. Nothing. The only thing that works is if mommy sits on the couch for hours in the dead of night and holds her. I have been surviving off of maybe 4 hours of sleep a night for a month!

Today Joey got up with her so I could sleep...and I slept until 3pm! I felt like an ass lol it being Father's Day and all.

But I'm at wits end. I need to sleep, but I don't get to. And she screams, not just cries, but out and out screams at the top of her lungs.

deleted_user 06/20/2011

My daughter does that too. Shes a little over a year. For the most part when she gets really bad I just get her out of bed and let her play until she wears herself out. One night she was got up at 10 am on sunday and DID NOT go to bed no nap or anything until 10 am MONDAY. She needs to go through a sleep study though. Have u changed anything in the home? Like a new crib the way stands in the room?Anything?

joleneLS 06/20/2011

Everything is the same at home. We have been talking about putting her into a toddler bed for months now, but with the waking up its just not feasable yet. She is getting all four of her eye teeth at once. But teething has never kept her up, and since she was such a late started she's gone through a group of teeth coming in at a time.

Last night she got up at 10pm and I managed to get her back to sleep by 11pm. But then at 1130pm she woke up again and was up until 3am. So then I went to bed at about 330am and she woke this morning at 5am, but went back to sleep on her own. Not before I woke up of course. And then was up for the day by 9am.

We completley got rid of naps in a hope she would be too tired to wake up at night. And she goes down easier but she still wakes up. So we brought them back for me lol so I could nap while she did.

deleted_user 06/20/2011

do you have a regular bedtime routine? Maybe if you add a late snack of a quarter peanutbutter sandwhich and a cup of milk it will halep her stay asleep. I have also heard that when children have problems staying asleep sometimes they need MORE rest during the day. I have never experienced a baby that wakes & wants to be up. All my boys have been bedsharing babies. My youngest (14mos) has never slept through the night though.... He wakes to nurse 2 or 3 times a night and goes right back to sleep. Maybe your daughter needs a lovey to snuggle with or white noise in the room to keep her from waking.

joleneLS 06/20/2011

We have a routine. As best as we can anyways. She plays until about seven thirty, and then we have a snack. Usually cheerios or fruit. Then we brush her teeth and have 'snuggle' time while we watch 'out of the box' on TV. After that it's bed time.

She has two blankies. Both are crotched things. I alternate so I can wash them lol. Plus she has a fish tank in her room and the fountain and pump give off white noise.

She does nap about three days a week. Only while at home. She wont nap at a sitters. But even on the days she naps it's the same up and at em routine in the middle of the night!

deleted_user 06/20/2011

Have you tried using motrin? It seems to work better for teething pain and there are 8 hours between doses. Give it one hour before bed and it should help her sleep through.

Sometimes, all it takes is a bit of something sweet. They did studies here on kids and found a little amount of sugar will soothe them better than any pain medication. I use bonjela, which is like baby orajel but it has a sweet licorice flavor. Dab it right on the spot and a few minutes later DD is calm. I'm pretty sure Hyland's teething tablets have a similar flavor. Maybe give them a try?

joleneLS 06/20/2011

I used hylands religiously lol but then they were recalled. Are they back on the market? If they are, I'll be buying some tomorrow!

deleted_user 06/20/2011

Odd, they haven't recalled them here.

They do have hyland's teething gel, though that is still on the market. It might just do the trick.

joleneLS 06/21/2011

It was quite some time ago. It was because the tablets weren't a uniform size so parents weren't giving their kids, like a bigger one and a littler one, but two bigger ones and their was risk of overdose. But I used them without problem as soon as she started getting teeth at ten months. And at almost 2 yrs she still has eight teeth to go....ugh...so I'm going to be checking out the shelves :)

deleted_user 06/21/2011

We are pretty much right where you are only our son is 19 months old and he has never consistently splept thru the night. But he does get up screaming about 1:00am every night. My husband normally has to go get him and put him on the couch and he will fall asleep there while my husband sleeps on the floor :((because right now I can't pick him up due to health reasons) But on the weekends he tries to get him back in his bed. We have tried EVERYTHING under the sun to get him to sleep and I have come to the conclusion "some kids just don't sleep well". I know it totally sucks but I just keep thinking that he has to grow out of it eventually! Good Luck!

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