Update: Out of the Crib

Posted on Sep 01 in Family Lifeby TrishPrint

Last night we tried to have my daughter sleep on a twin mattress on the floor instead of her crib.  We got her new sheets and everything.

Well, we put her down and she played for a little while, which we expected, but when I went up later I realized the light was on.  She is tall enough that she can reach the light switch and she had it on.  I turned it off and ran to the bathroom, and when I could hear her immediately get up and go turn it on again.  So I went in with some tape and taped it down.  She wasn’t too happy about that.

She was found the cd player and was playing around with the volume too.

She did pretty good for a while, and then she found she couldn’t open her door.  That is when the crying began.  She fussed and cried and yelled for “Mommy!” or “Daddy!” for a long time.  I think she eventually fell alseep by the door, but then she would wake up about 10-20 minutes later and start crying again.  I tried going in and laying down with her, but that only made her want to play.  She woke up again at about midnight and I went in and got her to climb in bed and gave her some milk and she was finally out.

Nap time today went a little bit better.  I put her down and as soon as I closed the door she was up.  She cried for about 30 minutes because she couldn’t open the door, but all is quiet now.

I’m hoping bed time goes as smoothly or better.  We figured the first night would be rough and then as the novelty of being able to get up out of bed would wear off,  it would get better.  I’ll keep you updated on our progress!

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• jenna says:

  September 1, 2009 at 8:10 pm

  I have been having similar experiences with Kelsie but for the most part we are past it now. Persistence!

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