Playing in cot at night
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Topic: Playing in cot at night
Posted By: FionaS
Subject: Playing in cot at night
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 4:27pm
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My wonderful sleeper is still reasonably wonderful BUT she has started to wake in the night and spend up to an hour, 1 to 3 times a night talking and rattling the sides of her cot. We are in the next room and I hear every second of it. I can't really complain as she never ever calls out to us BUT I can't sleep through her noise and I have really bad sleep issues as it is.
It this just a phase? During the day she is in a cotton sleeping bag with a safety sleep as she won't nap unless she has both (yes, she gets very hot). At night she is just in the go-go bag as the safety sleep disturbs her even more. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 4:56pm
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Just a phase. Andrew did this for a while and was happy to play. I put some toys in his cot when I went to bed so that he had something to play with. He went to sleep and was fine. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 5:09pm
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I hope it passes soon! I've had insomnia problems for 13mths and this just adds to it. You can't do much if they are happy though I guess. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 1:32pm
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Hey Fiona, Emma Rose does this and has been doing it for the last two months. It's awesome that Elle doesn't call to you or demand your attendance -- that is a bonus, becuse it could be so much worse! The only way I've found to try to put a stop to it is to make sure Em is REALLY tired before she goes to bed, which means having a super-active day. But that doesn't always work, especially since babies' sleep cycles mean that they get closer to "awake" than we do a couple times during the night, and they don't have that mental voice telling them to go back to sleep like adults do. The fact that she's self-settling is awesome, though. Meanwhile, I'd invest in some earplugs -- they work wonders! Hang in there... |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 11:25am
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Earplugs! What a wonderful idea! Elle was screaming (with delight) and banging for several hours last night.
This is such a noisey stage...screaming tantrums, screaming with glee...just a lot of screaming. Poor ol' quiet introverted mother!  ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 10 January 2008 at 7:04am
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Our routine is officially gone! All because when on holiday the room had blinds, not curtains so it was too light in her room.
This week Elle has refused bed before 9pm. This is the first time this has happened since she was 2mths old! Been awake for 1 to 3 hours in the night squealing and rattling her cot. Been awake at 5am to 7am repeating the midnight madness Napping for 20mins only until 5pm when she crashes and has to be woken at 7 for dinner. We are having huge tantrums which indicates to me that she is not getting enough slep. We NEED to fix this....any ideas where to start? Up until we went on holiday on Dec 30th, her routine was 7.30am up 10 to 11.30 nap 3pm to 5pm nap 7pm bed Slept soundly all night. ....we need that back! ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 11:41am
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This playing in the cot thing is getting really irritating. Sure it is cute hearing your child telling stories and meowing and laughing but for 2 hours in the middle of every night???
Argh! ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |