Ummm...any suggestions???? PLEASE!!!!
Ok...well I am getting desperate. Sean and I haven't been sleeping for the past 4 nights because our dd#4 is making "life difficult" and not sleeping through the night. AAAAGGGGHHHHH. She is almost 13 months old and for some reason is waking up at some point in the middle of the night and SCREAMING. And I mean Screaming. And that is after Sean or I go into her room to 1. change her diaper, 2. give her a fresh bottle, and 3. find her a pacifier for the other hand. So...in our minds...we have the bases covered. But we must be missing something b/c whenever we turn around to leave the room....all heck breaks loose and once again we are left feeling like....hmmm....I hate life. Well of course not really but those of you who remember these nights will remember the feeling. I have tried letting her cry it out(last night and she screamed for over 75 minutes before finally falling asleep), and then woke up at 630am for the day. I have thought of drugging her...with tylenol of course thinking that perhaps her teeth really do hurt. But part of me thinks that can't be it b/c she is only screaming when we leave her. So...I am open to any and all suggestions. Please...I am begging you. Restore my life to normal. Oh and if you are wondering...I have tried praying too. TIA for your ideas!
posted by Erin @ 2:12 PM
7 Comments:
Until you mentioned praying at the very end, I was thinking it might be something spiritual. Maybe it is. Do you have to pick her up? Could you just sit next to her crib & then after 5 minutes move a little further away & keep doing that? Let her sleep with you guys for a few nights? Give her extra special one-on-one attention before her bedtime? Does she sleep with a night light? I'm sorry you are having to have sleepless nights! We've all been there...
I feel for you girl since my kids didn't start sleeping through the night until after 15 months. I am usually not good at giving advice (you of all people should know) but I thought I would just suggest a few things. Most important is be consistant and stick to a strict bedtime routine. I wouldn't recommend having her sleep with you for two reasons...#1-it would probably just make things that much harder when you did want to put her in her own room and in her own crib. #2- you have another baby coming in a few months and this might create some jealousy issues if she gets kicked out only for Kendall to move in. Does her room have a room darkening blind because shadows or lights from cars might be freaking her out? Also, what time are you putting her to bed at night? As long as you know that she isn't sick, you just have to be patient and find what works. Hang in there!
Okay so here is my opinion it sounds like something spiritual is happening in your house I say this because Andy went through the EXACT same thing. I too tried everything you have tried and came up empty handed, praying didn't seem to work until I got serious about it. I literally had to stand in the room while the kids were in bed and pray OUT loud that we LOVE Jesus in this house and that we rebuke SATAN (I know this may sound crazy to some) But I firmly believe that my kids Andy in particular was being attacked. I still do this. I would pray with him when he was going to bed and than I would pray OVER HIM before I went to bed, outloud so I could be heard. Satan doesn't hear our thoughts when we pray silently asking him to leave he can however hear us when we pray outloud After I prayed that His screaming fits stopped.
My nights were better.
sounds exactly like tjb on timber trail. that is code for normal.
puff daddy
Listen, satan or growing pains, your child is under God's protection. Satan cannot touch her. If God allows, he can scare her, or whatever. Bottom line, if it is something evil, you don't need to yell at Satan with her in the room. He is not in her, he's in the room. I've done it before, but waited until I was alone in the house. But, I think that jumping to the conclusion after 4 days that it is satan is a little bit of paranoya. Just relax and be patient. She's barely a year old. I know how hard it is. Don;t think I'm downplaying that part. But I've noticed a lot of people pointing at satan lately right away. NO, this is not pointed at Jori. I believe her if she says it's happened in her home. I'm confronting a trend I've noticed reading these blogs, that's all. Just pray for your patience and her comfort.
Thank you to everyone who has left a comment. I don't feel at this time that this is a "satan" thing. I would find it difficult that the other kids aren't impacted at all by a prescence "in the room". They are all sleeping quite peacefully during the screaming tyraids. I quess I was thinking more along the lines of...is there something parenting related that I am missing? Or Did your kids go through a clingy stage at 13 months?
Becki-although I did write about prayer in the end of my note, I don't feel like it was a last resort in any means.
Beth-Thank you for your reminding words about co-sleeping issues that might come up in the future. She might be sick, and I am so quick to judge myself instead of thinking...hmmmm...maybe there is something physical going on...like those two teeth that are trying to come through STILL!!!
Jori-I also thank you for your words of wisdom about your experience. I don't know if I am at the stage of desperation that you were at when you felt attacked.
Ummm...Puff Daddy-was this during tjb's hair pulling out episodes?
Dan-Thank you for reminding me that not everything is satan related. It is difficult for me to see my child not having good sleeping patterns b/c I haven't really had to deal with sleep issues with my kids. I have been terribly lucky and actually...if Sean wasn't home...I would be alot worse.
tjb was like this around the time that the milk bags were no longer available. i wanted to put him outside but year olds need more protection than that according to sbb. i think cough medicine is tasty. who dat? gotta go! someone cryin' at my doe. laterz.
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