...And one giant leap for resting my eyeballs.
Kim and I have always struggled getting Audrey to sleep at night. She always been in our bed which usually means I wind up in another bed. She gets up several times a night and basically drains us (more so my wife.)
We recently tried something we had abandoned a few months ago. A routine. Showing my inept ability as a dad, I would let Audrey run hog wild around the house until I was tired, and then we would go lay down.
For a couple of days now, we have changed the routine, or perhaps created one. Now Audrey gets a bath about 8:30 and then I lay her down in her bed, read a book or two, and get her to fall asleep. Guess what? She has basically slept through the night in her own bed two nights in a row.
(Chorus of angels singing praise)
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Yes, MC! Hallelujah, Jesus!!
I think routine is the key, from what I've heard, and generally experienced. Children like predictability.
I can't believe the change this made. I never believed getting her to bed earlier would help her sleep longer. It's been over a week now and she has been doing really well.
routine is definitely lesson #1,as Julana wisely said ...but lesson2 might be that Audrey is sensitive to being overstimulated by her environment, and needs something to calm her- warm baths work! ditto quiet stories.
Isn't parenting great? yay for you:)
ilona,
It's funny you say that. Last easter, we were at the grandparents house. A bunch of us slept in the living room. There was a big air mattresss and Audrey spent 30mins jumping on it with her cousins right before bed. Audrey, and the rest of the house, didn't sleep that night because of her night terrors. We pretty much figured out what we, as parents were doing wrong after that point.
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