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SLEEP => Sleeping For Toddlers => Topic started by: fidelma on November 03, 2005, 19:26:17 pm
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Just for those of you who are at the end of your tether with a non sleeper.... after 19 months of not really ever sleeping through, and many attempts of sleep training, ds has slept through 2 nights in a row and is happy to go down for naps and bedtime awake and without me in the room.... this next bit I am so pleased about I just had to share. I put him to bed about 20 mins ago, then I just heard him calling 'mama' so I went in and he asked for a drink, had one then lay down and I left. I never dreamed I would see the day, it's the first time he hasn't cried for me, but called me instead.
Good luck all and hang in there.. it will happen one day
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Congrats Fildelma!!
All your hard work paid off then!!
Gonna share your secret?......... :D :wink:
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thanks Nina - mmmm you know I am not sure I have a secret. I think I was just lucky that ds decided he was ready to sleep (or you could say unlucky that it took 19 months to get here).
However what I did was leave the room, I really think that me staying in there with him was disturbing him. I tried moving towards the door gradually but that just upset him every step of the way. So we went cold turkey, but no CC or CIO. I left him for no more that 30 secs at a time, and I think it really reassured him that I was not abandoning him.
Anyway here's to 4 months sleep before #2 arrives!!!
Fidelma