Intro and sleeping question
Maxicek
posting was such a pita until I got this account...)...
I have a ds who's 5 and a dd who's 10 months old today. Her deal is this:
I nurse her almost to sleep at around 7-7:15. Exactly one hour later,
she'll either grumble and fall back asleep, or else she will stand up in her
crib and start screaming. This is an angry scream - the "g0ddammit, mom,
get back here NOW!" scream. She is inconsolable until I take her out (and I
try to put this off as long as possible, but I can see that she's just
working herself into a higher and higher level of hysteria...) and rock her
back down again. Once back asleep, she'll sleep until 11 or 12 midnight,
then up for a feed, back down again in the crib for another couple of hours,
then she'll cry and I stay with her (in a single bed in the kidz room for
that purpose) for the rest of the night, nursing off and on.
Obviously, the "grumble and fall back asleep" scenario is the good one - the
one we can go out and have an evening out without fear of MIL declarign that
she'll never baby sit again when we get back. As it is, we have to wait an
hour after she falls asleep to see what kind of night it will be.
So what do you think her deal is? Is it a sleep cycle thing - that
sometimes she doesn't come all the way out of sleep and sometimes she does?
I haven't been able to pinpoint anything else that would relate to this
siutation - she eats dinner at the same time every evening (and at this
point, it's just nice warm baby cereal with fruit cuz I'm too lazy to feed
her anything else...). She has a bath at the same time, and I nurse her
most of the way down at bedtime. No one's running around making loud
noises, the TV's not blaring (the kidz' room adjoins the living room).
It's just annoying more than anything.
TIA,
Maxicek
Momma to Max, 6/97 and Emma, the annoying, 6/01
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