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Ooh dear. Remember how yesterday I was all perky because Vi had slept through and I was hopeful that she'd got herself back into a good sleep routine?
Spoke too bloody soon, me old china.
Last night she woke at the now pretty regular hours of just after 10pm (even though she hadn't got to sleep til about 9!) and half 4 in the morning. The 10 o'clock one was pretty standard - changed her nappy, gave her a bit more milk, managed to get her down in her own bed within half an hour.
However, my battle plan for any further wake-ups was to leave her and see if she could nod off again of her own accord, and since I'd had around 5 hours kip by the time she woke up again I was up for giving it a shot. I did win that battle, eventually - it took over an hour of her crying, though, and the victory was very brief, since half an hour later she woke up again, and by that time Husband had to get up anyway, so he got her up for the day.
Have read up on this and I know what the problem is - the whole 'getting the child to go to bed awake' malarky that we've been putting off and off because she gets so upset whenever we try that she screams the house down and often makes herself throw up. I have just succeeded in putting her down awake for her nap, all it took was 15 mins of her wailing and trying to be sick. I'm dreading bedtime, because then she'll have a bellyful of dinner and milk :(
Parenting, eh? Turns out it's not actually that easy.
Speaking of mean, horrible parents, I have started back on Family Reunion again. Now I know why I've been putting that one off so long - I've got to reunite Hank with the group, Sheila especially, and have him react to the fact that Bobby's missing but the late Charles Montgomery is shambling around, reunite Rahmoud, Ayeisha & Zandora with the others, reunite Presto and Varla and have the group react to Lilac and Bluebell. *sigh*
Spoke too bloody soon, me old china.
Last night she woke at the now pretty regular hours of just after 10pm (even though she hadn't got to sleep til about 9!) and half 4 in the morning. The 10 o'clock one was pretty standard - changed her nappy, gave her a bit more milk, managed to get her down in her own bed within half an hour.
However, my battle plan for any further wake-ups was to leave her and see if she could nod off again of her own accord, and since I'd had around 5 hours kip by the time she woke up again I was up for giving it a shot. I did win that battle, eventually - it took over an hour of her crying, though, and the victory was very brief, since half an hour later she woke up again, and by that time Husband had to get up anyway, so he got her up for the day.
Have read up on this and I know what the problem is - the whole 'getting the child to go to bed awake' malarky that we've been putting off and off because she gets so upset whenever we try that she screams the house down and often makes herself throw up. I have just succeeded in putting her down awake for her nap, all it took was 15 mins of her wailing and trying to be sick. I'm dreading bedtime, because then she'll have a bellyful of dinner and milk :(
Parenting, eh? Turns out it's not actually that easy.
Speaking of mean, horrible parents, I have started back on Family Reunion again. Now I know why I've been putting that one off so long - I've got to reunite Hank with the group, Sheila especially, and have him react to the fact that Bobby's missing but the late Charles Montgomery is shambling around, reunite Rahmoud, Ayeisha & Zandora with the others, reunite Presto and Varla and have the group react to Lilac and Bluebell. *sigh*
