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06-27-2005, 01:18 PM
First of all, I need to say that I'm not complaining about my situation...DD has the sleep habits that she does because of me, and I don't mind them. But I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or has gone through something similar.
DD is now 20 mos. old and has always been a good sleeper, usually sleeping through the night. Every so often she has some rough nights but can be comforted back to sleep after a few minutes. We've pretty much done the co-sleeping thing on a part-time basis...that is, when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she comes in bed with us. We all like that.
My question is about going to bed for the first time at night. When DD was younger, she'd go to sleep awake if we put her mobile on (and that played for about 15ish minutes). I don' t know when it happened, but at some point going to bed awake stopped working. I think it might have been when we moved into a new house and her room was farther away and I was paranoid :o
Now we basically have the routine of dinner, bath, quiet playtime/storytime, then upstairs to lay in 'mommy's bed' and I sing to her until she falls asleep. Then I put her in her crib and we're done.
The only problem with this is when I fall asleep with her...I'm not ready to end my day at 7 or 8:00, and even when I do wake back up or DH wakes me up I'm groggy and really don't feel like doing anything except going back to sleep. I'd like to transition her to falling asleep on her own without CIO. Is that even possible? I have tried rocking her and/or staying with her in her room, but I think she thinks her room is for sleep or play, and nothing in between. And I'm just not ready to let her cry for any length of time.
Since she falls asleep in our bed, I'm wondering how anyone who still cosleeps handles this?
Like I said, I'm not complaining as much as I'm just curious to see if anyone has gone through anything similar.
TIA :)
DD is now 20 mos. old and has always been a good sleeper, usually sleeping through the night. Every so often she has some rough nights but can be comforted back to sleep after a few minutes. We've pretty much done the co-sleeping thing on a part-time basis...that is, when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she comes in bed with us. We all like that.
My question is about going to bed for the first time at night. When DD was younger, she'd go to sleep awake if we put her mobile on (and that played for about 15ish minutes). I don' t know when it happened, but at some point going to bed awake stopped working. I think it might have been when we moved into a new house and her room was farther away and I was paranoid :o
Now we basically have the routine of dinner, bath, quiet playtime/storytime, then upstairs to lay in 'mommy's bed' and I sing to her until she falls asleep. Then I put her in her crib and we're done.
The only problem with this is when I fall asleep with her...I'm not ready to end my day at 7 or 8:00, and even when I do wake back up or DH wakes me up I'm groggy and really don't feel like doing anything except going back to sleep. I'd like to transition her to falling asleep on her own without CIO. Is that even possible? I have tried rocking her and/or staying with her in her room, but I think she thinks her room is for sleep or play, and nothing in between. And I'm just not ready to let her cry for any length of time.
Since she falls asleep in our bed, I'm wondering how anyone who still cosleeps handles this?
Like I said, I'm not complaining as much as I'm just curious to see if anyone has gone through anything similar.
TIA :)