Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Nap time... the new battle

Current Mood: clueless

Remember back when Mia used to go NUTS whenever it was "night night" time? She would scream and throw the biggest tantrums this house has ever seen? Well those times are thankfully long gone (for now!) and she goes to bed with no problem at all! Even if I leave her early. However, naptime is the new "night night" and we are running out of ideas to try.

Granted getting her to the room is a small challenge it isn't nearly as bad as it used to be during bedtime. Adrian is the one who puts her down since I put her down at night. He usually stays with her until she falls asleep (which takes FOREVER) and he will leave. Then she will wake up about 10-15 mins later screaming bloody murder because she realizes hes gone and she won't sleep a wink again... no matter how tired she is and no matter how long we leave her in her room (we've left here in there a couple a hours! with no avail)

This had been going on for a couple of weeks now and getting worse and worse. Its bad for me too because she is practically skipping naps entirely so at night she is a holy terror with me. We've tried making her naptime earlier, later, wearing her out, I even got her up in the morning earlier, later, taking her out to the park to wear her out, taking her out walking to wear her out and giving her a hot bath before naptime. NOTHING works!!! She still wakes up 10-15 mins later screaming her head off and she refuses to go to sleep again.

So I don't know what to do. I hope she grows out of this soon, however, I hope she doesn't start going to bed at night bad again.