WTH HAPPENED TO MY EASY GO TO BEDDER?

DS used to be a DREAM at nighttime. RIght to bed, no fuss (most of the time, and if he did fuss it was minimal) no muss. Nighttime used to be my favorite time of day, so relaxing and peaceful. Well, DS is 2, and nighttime is a NIGHTMARE now. He is not "mature" enough for a big boy bed and CIO scares me now b/c I"m scared he will climb out of this crib. BUT, I do still employ it it just takes me longer to work up the nerve to walk out of the room. BUT, nighttime is a fiasco now. WHat used to take me at most 10 minutes now, takes me about an hour. When he used to go to bed between 8 and 8:30, he JUST went down now and it's 10:10 here, and he's STILL not sleeping............. WTH? WHat do I do? Is this just a LONG phase? THis has been going on now over a month..........

Re: WTH HAPPENED TO MY EASY GO TO BEDDER?

I was just telling someone else my son went through a phase as well and I found story books on CD and movies on CD (Not DVD) just CD to listen to and DS now loves to pick out his story or "movie" to fall asleep to. I think he feels less lonely in the dark listening to these-and since there are no visuals he probably just imagines what is going on and falls asleep before the end! I also do have the FP soothing sounds and lights thing that looks like a childs radio that plays soft sounds or music and displays lights on the ceiling. Its a tough phase hang in there!

Re: WTH HAPPENED TO MY EASY GO TO BEDDER?

Posted by Laura-DDS

I was just telling someone else my son went through a phase as well and I found story books on CD and movies on CD (Not DVD) just CD to listen to and DS now loves to pick out his story or "movie" to fall asleep to. I think he feels less lonely in the dark listening to these-and since there are no visuals he probably just imagines what is going on and falls asleep before the end! I also do have the FP soothing sounds and lights thing that looks like a childs radio that plays soft sounds or music and displays lights on the ceiling. Its a tough phase hang in there!

Re: WTH HAPPENED TO MY EASY GO TO BEDDER?

my dd is going through the same thing, she is 27 months old...I am assuming it is a phase, I let her CIO

last night was much better than previous nights, she cried for about 10 minutes and fell asleep after about 1/2 hour

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OMG we are going through the same thing..it started Tuesday..he was hysterical crying because he's scared of the dark..he threw himself out of the crib adn was like i fell out i fell out..then Wed he was fine, went down without a fight and last night was MISERABLE!! he was hysterical..threw himself out of the crib 3 times I told DH to put the matress on the floor. We had to lay down with him..we took the side of the crib off so its like a daybed. I can't have him throwing himself out of the crib..it was horrible...then the whole night i was afraid he was going to get up and fall down the stairs..WTH is going on. I hope hope hope its a phase..he seemed so scared. Any advice would be appriciated!!!!! Gavin will be 2 next month..

Message edited 6/19/2009 12:05:39 PM.