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This is going to be a long entry… the only kind I know how to do really! Hahaha…
Ok for about 4 weeks now my daughter has been staying up ALL night! There seams to be nothing I can do about it either. I am 100% unsure as to the reason why this all started and about %100 not sure how I should be fixing this problem.
I normally wake up around 3 a.m. to be at work by 4a.m. She was waking up at about that time as well for about a week before I stopped going to work… (or anywhere between 2-5a.m.) So at first I though she was hearing me… mind you no one in our building or my other half ever hear me get up… so sonic hearing? Who knows. But since 3 weeks ago I have not gone to work at all. Nor am I usually up at that time unless she is… and she is most nights. But she is up before me if that is the case. So it is no longer me if it ever was.
She also for the past month or more been insisting on having her bedroom light on and will scream like I have NEVER heard a child scream before when we shut it off! She actually SHAKES! And no a night light is not good enough for her either… and I had a really bright on in there too. That has been going on for a couple weeks longer than the up all night stuff.
Some times she is crying when she gets up, or at least moaning a but… a couple of times she was screaming.. Not as bad as the I want the light on scream, but still blood turning… however when I do find her screaming like that she has already been a wake for a short while and is mad about something she is trying to do and can’t ex: trying to reach her book shelf, move the glider rocker, dress her animals in clothing that wont fit them. Usually though she just goes to her door and nocks on it saying Momma? Mommaaaaa…. And a few Dadaas too…. We ignore her for some times upwards of an hour and a half. Twice in a row the whole night even. And at a minimum 30 minutes.
Possible causes have seemingly been ruled out…
Noises from the heater… We turned that off for a few nights (the weather was warm and we live in the upper of 3 floors) and it really doesn’t make much noise to begin with not to mention she should be used to it as we have been here since her birth and the same fan system runs the AC.
Noise from out side… If it was a one time noise we will never know… but she is prity fearless for one (like her Moma :P ) and 95% of the time I am the only ass up that late around here. But for sure we have ruled out a reoccurring noise from out side.
Fear of her room… It has not been rearranged since the addition of her big girl bed which was 3 months ago. This started 3-6 weeks ago. And the only thing that changed was the bed. She willingly goes to sleep in her own room, by her self with out us there. The only condition is that the light has to be on.
Her need to pee… as we have been potty training of sorts you would think that would be it. But many times while sleeping she will have already taken her night time diaper off (as that is the only time she usually wears one and she hates it) she will pee herself and not wake up at all. And she never has to go right away when she does get up.
Being hungry… She wont eat food or drink a cup of milk when she gets up. And she does have a bed time snack some where with in an hour before going to bed.
The Cats… they are locked out of her room at night… always have been… and trust me 3 out of 5 do not want to be in her room at all! The 2 that will go in her room if we were to let them never bother her door… they know it is out of bounds… and I would have caught them buy now.
Her health…. She does not cough, have a fever, stuffy or runny nose, nor show any other things that would be causing this to occur. Maybe growing pains, but I see no evidence of that either… and warm baths and baby massages have been given to test that theory too.
Other factors… she is in a warm but not too warm of a room… she is in loose clothing or nude… she loves to be nude…. iieee… :P she is clean, dry, not cluttered buy animals stuffed or real…
Things I have tried doing….
Okay…. Making her stay up ALL day, no naps 3 days in a row! Followed by putting her down at 10 p.m…. still woke up. 10p.m for her is her usual bed time, and has been allowed to stay up on occasion till 12 or even 2, but not very often for that to be the cause.. Not only that but the times we have allowed it have not been recent. Also when allowed to nap now I limit the amount of time and at what time… (as some days with out a nap I’d have the urge to actually drive up the wall as that’s where she’ll send me!) I also make sure to wake her up no later that 11-12 if she did finally go to sleep, and usually it is 9am when I get her up (again usual for her as I normally get home at 8:30)
Not giving her drinks right before bed, and making sure she has peed.
Took away the bed room light…. (still off going on 5 days) the thought there was that she was getting up to play, or confusing her nights and days cause of the constant light.
No more putting on a movie to watch when she does get up… I did that a few times for two reasons… one so I could drift in and out of sleep while she quietly watched it… The second was so that she was sitting still, and it brought her down to one point of focus… The movie was always a quiet calm kid type movie. Even brought back out her ‘calm baby’ video which she still loves… it is supposed to lull kids to sleep.. It is all lullabies played to scenes of water and children’s toys.
Tried to get her to sleep else where… the couch, our bed… me with her in her bed.
Ignoring her… (mentioned that already) left her all night a couple of times.
Giving her a small snack…
And again, the baths right before bed with a baby massage to fallow.
There are only two other factors I can think of…
One is bad dreams…. Couldn’t even think of what to do there other than magical intervention… however she is most often just getting up, and sounding like it was because of a bad dream. Like I said before when she does scream or cry it is out of frustration due to something she is up to. So I really don’t think that is what it is.
And last… I can not exclude the possibility that there are other visitors bothering her… Now it is unlikely, but we do know she can see and hear things. If it was a one time occurrence it shouldn’t still be getting her up. We have not caught anything, nor is it usually possible for them to enter with out our consent… though I wonder if she could give consent. However we have asked her night time guard and nothing has according to her. And again, she is usually unbothered when she wakes.
This is most frustrating because until now she has never, and I mean NEVER been like this… even at 2 days old she would sleep 12 hours through the night! Only waking u if I chose to nurse her, which was usually difficult cause I could not arouse her enough to get her to feed properly.
There has been a couple of times in the past 3 weeks the situation improved, but has not been resolved. The very next day after progress has been made… following the same method as the day before when she did improve only leads too her waking up again after all…
I really don’t know what I should try to do next. I have tried most things that people would suggest and the next rout will most likely be less mundane in nature. However I would still like to find the cause as I feel it would be easier to solve either way if I could figure out that.
Tonight I just plain gave up, I let her go to sleep at 7 pm and left her there… it is now 10:30... We will see how long she ends up sleeping for tonight. Anything people could suggest mundane or other wise to check for or try out would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all!
Goodnight, sleeptight,
Don't let the bed bugs bite.
And if they do
Take off your shoe
And beat'em till they're black and blue.
(I always wondered why you would have your shoes on in bed, but anyway...)
Tim...wherever you are, I hope you are well and life is good, you meant so much to me and I don't think I ever told you that I loved you.
... I just changed my bed sheets for the first time in six months. 
Ok, It's gross, sad, pathetic, and funny all at the same time I moved in to my apartment in November and put new clean sheets on the bed and just changed them this morning.
I really like the looks of the new ones. And I had no Idea I even had them. The thing is I used to live in my grandmother's old house after she passed ways. I was maintaining the house and getting it ready to go for sale. When I moved out I just through all my grandmother's clean sheets in a box and moved them to the apartment (I through out all the old ratty and dirty one's she had kept around for some unknown reason). I just picked a nice looking set out of the box.
God, Am I sad or what? No wonder why I'm single :)
Thanks,
Mark
So I sit up only to see my 9 month old daughter standing on the floor at the end of the bed........ With her very first candy cane in her little sticky hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!............
Ok so how the hell did this happen you might ask??? considering she had been in bed asleep last I knew, and the hall way is gated off, and the candy cane.... hanging on the tree..... Apparently Daddy had found the baby was awake, and being a good daddy he got her out of bed, and changed a poopie diaper (the reason why she had woken up) She, as will happen when this occurs, was too awake to go right back to sleep, so he had given her a bottle (in hopes it would knock her back out) and settled on the couch with her......
While she drank away Daddy fell asleep, and our little night time candy thief got down off the couch and Daddy.... played a bit, stole the candy cane off the tree..... struggled with the plastic, successfully I might add as I foound bits of it all over the house.... Then further realizing that she could get away with what ever proceeded to get through her gated hallway and down to our room she came!! Finding me there is when she started to try and get my attention..... hahaha... all the while Daddy was out cold still holding the position he had had while giving her a bottle well over 2-3 hours ago by this point.....
And I can not say that I was mad by this because it was just too funny, mostly because it was so unexpected.... though I think new plans are in order for night time awakenings like this.... but to date it is one of the funniest and most clever thing she has done thus far and I had to share with you all....
i went to bed about 12 last night and i couldnt sleep as my knees were aching and just made me feel uncomfortable. the time progressed to 1.21 am and still i was awake. i heard someone in the bathroom so out of curiosity i asked who it was and they replied with "me" which i knew was my older sister. she inquired why i was still awake and i explained my predicament. she left the bathroom and came back but this time walking into my room with a glass of water and nurofen. i thought that was so nice of my sister, quite considerate of her which has been lately a rarity. i thanked her and moreso as she brought me nurofen and not panadol as nurofen is easier to swallow- i hate swallowing tablets especially huge ones, seriously why do they make tablets so huge? totally unnecessary. however, i called nurofen "nephron" which is in the kidney and removes wastes and other fluids from the body. hahaha. shows that i have been doing biology study..lol..too much so, im now talking in biolic-tongue..hahaha.
so yea, i just thougt that my sister getting me nurofen and water was really nice of her as she didnt have to do it, especially since it wasnt even asked.
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