I've heard and read that oftentimes babies will wake up at night when they're learning some new trick or entering a new developmental stage. That was never really the case with the girls, with the exception of maybe one night each of rolling over and not being able to roll back.
It's different with Trey. If I recall, we spent weeks flipping him back over at night. And now, a few months later, we're onto a newer and more exhausting trip. It's the reason I'm up at 3am blogging.
Trey has started to pull up to kneeling or standing in his crib but then can't get back down and starts to cry. The very first time he did it I thought it was so cute and was proud of our big boy's new accomplishment. The enjoyment was short-lived. It's made getting him down for naps a bear and made nighttime practically sleepless for us this week. The routine goes something like this: Trey wakes up and crawls to the end of his crib (facing the door - maybe he's looking for us?), pulls himself up, stands there stuck and scared and starts to cry. We go in, lay him back down and leave. He lays there quietly for a minute, goes back over and starts the whole routine over. So we go in again. And again. And again. This is easily lasting an hour each time - and tonight I've now passed the two hour mark. Two or three times now I've thought he was asleep and even made the mistake of crawling back under my warm covers to go to sleep only to hear him cry again 5 minutes later.
Being sleep-deprived and going on days - months really - of little sleep is enough to make this feel monumental (especially in the middle of the night). So I keep reminding myself that this is teeny tiny in the grand scheme of things and, if not for this post, I might even forget about it in years to come.
For now I'm still waiting for someone older and wiser to share with me the secret of getting one full night's sleep before your last child leaves the home.
{It's been quiet in the little rascal's room for over 5 minutes now. I'm going to take that as my cue to get back in bed. If you see another post from me at some insane hour you can safely assume we started the routine over again.}
Good night!
3 comments:
ohhh man, that is not fun at all. Graham did that same thing, ick. Here's to hoping you are catching your ZZZZs.
xoxo
earplugs? ;)
the only thing we could do when that happened was teach them how to sit from standing STAT! took a while, but we'd go in there and pull their hands off the rail while simultaneously guiding their bottoms down. once we were confident they wouldn't fall straight back, we'd just pry their fingers off and let them fall onto their bottoms. it took a while, but doing it during the day in other instances (table, chair, etc) helped it speed up.
good luck, get some sleep girl!
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