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I'm going to throw my 22 month old out the window....new NW....help!
« on: August 05, 2011, 11:11:00 am »
My previous excellent sleeper has now started waking once a night and last night lasted for 3 hrs. Last two weeks he has woken, asked for a drink, gone for a pee, asked for a song and settled. Last night just kept trying to manipulate me and hubby for hrs. I'm expecting number 2 in 4 weeks and I'm exhausted and need to nip thus in the bud. Aside from new baby on the way we have potty trained him and put him in big boy bed in last couple months both of which he handled really well. A lot of changes though I realize. I just need some advice on how to get past this. We used to hear him whine a bit occasionally and would ignore him and he'd settle. But since potty training and new bed threshold to check on him has been lower. So maybe we got him used to us coming in at night again?

Anyway any help would be appreciated.......dreading having newborn AND 2 yo awake at night.
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Re: I'm going to throw my 22 month old out the window....new NW....help!
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 11:17:39 am »
Quote from: jojojo on August 05, 2011, 11:11:00 am
So maybe we got him used to us coming in at night again?
Possibly. Maybe a bit of SA.

Other thought is UT. Have you had any trouble with him settling for naps or BT?
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2011, 11:43:02 am »
Hi...

Can you post what his routine looks like?

We also went through some sleep issues with DD towards the end of my pg with DS, I think she picked up on me looking differently etc & it unsettled her for a while but things then calmed down again. We found that doing a longer wind-down before BT really helped so that she got quality time with DH or I & this seemed to help her feel more reassured.
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2011, 12:59:58 pm »
Routine unchanged in a long time. No issues with naps.

7ish. Awake. Milk.
8ish. Breakfast
Some type of am activity with mom dad or grandma
10ish. Snack
12ish. Lunch
1230ish. Elmo time for 15 min
1ish. Nap for 1-2 hrs
230-3ish. Up and snack. Has been a bit grumpy waking from nap lately
5ish. Dinner
630 ish. Elmotime
7. Bath. Books. Review day. Songs. Sleep. Takes 30min or so from start of bath

Has been more clingy and wanting to be carried around alot lately too.

Has been waking up dry consistently for weeks too. No diapers. Has fallen out of bed twice despite safety rails but no injury and gone rig back to sleep. Otherwise Ll I can come up with are maybe teeth issues? Anyway I need a strategy for NW. Hes old enough to manipulate us at night now ( I need a drink, I need to pee etc ect )




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Re: I'm going to throw my 22 month old out the window....new NW....help!
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2011, 13:18:21 pm »
Quote from: jojojo on August 05, 2011, 12:59:58 pm
Hes old enough to manipulate us at night now ( I need a drink, I need to pee etc ect )
We've been getting all of this too, but at BT. Nap capping did help to start with and I figured he was UT at BT, but then his 2 yr molars started to make an appearance (they've been moving around for quite some time now), that bothered him for a few nights and then things seem to be more settled now and he's back on his 1.5 hour naps (if I cap it now he gets OT!) so I'm wondering if it was the teeth all along for us too. They really can cause havoc with these toddlers, so it may be down to that. Have you tried medicating?

I can't see any issue with your routine, it's practially identical to how ours has been for months.

Well done on him being dry, that's great at such a young age! That's a battle I'm still in the middle of  ::)

I'm not going to be any help with the SA I'm afraid, Sian will probably be more help as far as that's concerned.
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2011, 13:23:58 pm »
Sorry what is SA?
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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2011, 13:30:19 pm »
SA is Separation Anxiety (see link below FYI):

http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=62612.0

Has he gone through this before?

It could be that his awareness of your pregnancy has brought on some SA or I agree with Cath that it could be 2nd year molars moving around in his gums, it's around this age that they can cause sleep issues.
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2011, 13:33:33 pm »
Sorry, separation anxiety.

There is some info, and other links, here http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=212037.msg2244002#msg2244002

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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2011, 14:02:47 pm »
Thanks. Will try meds tonight for sure. No major SA issues until recently.
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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2011, 14:56:44 pm »
If he's not gone through SA before then I would think it could be that he's feeling unsettled by your pg. The best thing we found when going through something similar with DD was to spend lots of time talking to her about the baby & making sure she got as much 1 to 1 time with me as possible (you can also get some good books that can help explain new baby's to LO's).
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« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2011, 15:41:55 pm »
2nights of meds and two nights no NW!  Must be teeth at least in part!

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« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2011, 18:02:20 pm »
Ahhh, pesky teeth...at least you've hopefully got to the bottom of it! FX they come through soon!
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Re: I'm going to throw my 22 month old out the window....new NW....help!
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2011, 19:26:08 pm »
That's good news, at least you can help him a bit :)
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