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Honey2223
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2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
Need advice, suggestions, any kind of help! Just had DC #2, my DC #1 is 2 years old and is adjusting pretty well so far. Calls baby by name, wants to help feed, give binkie, acknowledges baby, etc. BUT at bed time, after following the same routine which worked beautifully every single night, now it's tuned into a nightmare. Screams, does not want to stay in her room, tries to desperately climb out of crib which is so scary. After 45 min of this DH ends up bringing her into our bedroom and then she wants to talk and makes noise and the baby wakes up or baby doesn't fall asleep and we are soooo tired. We are giving DC 1 a lot of attention, setting separate time aside to play, read with her and take her out etc. We are thinking maybe changing her crib to toddler bed, DH went out and bought her favorite character bedsheets etc. But I just envision her jumping right out of bed and running to our bedroom as soon as we leave her room. We are thinking this definitely has to be about the new baby in the house. Anyone have this happen ??? Any successful suggestions? !? We are sleep deprived and and have run out of ideas. TIA
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blu6385
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2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
if she is climbing out I def think its time for a toddler bed. it took DD about 3 days to stay in her room and sleep there was lots of crying and sleeping and I put the door knob cover inside her door so she couldn't open it. IMO the best thing to do is be firm and keep bringing her in her room and not giving in cause if she know you will give in she will continue doing it
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| Posted 11/19/14 9:03 AM |
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MrsO
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Re: 2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
I don't know if I would move to the toddler bed as it probably is an adjustment for her. Maybe she is a little jealous baby is in your room.
I may suggest - sitting in her room a little longer that way she feels she is getting the extra attention to.
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| Posted 11/19/14 12:21 PM |
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2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
Could you let her fall asleep in your room then put her back I her crib?
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| Posted 11/19/14 12:52 PM |
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jams92
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Re: 2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
i would not put her in a toddler bed (unless she really is getting out of her crib). that is a lot of change at once, plus it will just make it easier for her to come out anytime she wants.
when my son was born, my daughter was 15 months old and we had the same issue (although she also hated when i would nurse the baby too but bedtime became a nightmare). it was a jealousy thing...and it still is. We realized she was jealous that she was in bed before the baby and that the baby was in our room while she was in her own room. After week 1....we put our son in his room instead of our room and it really seemed to help. DD still gives us a hard time if we try to put her to bed and her brother is still awake but for the most part we put them to bed at the same time
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BlessedMomma
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2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
I think it sounds like jealousy to me. My friend has a 2.5 year old and a new dd. The 2.5 year old whose already in a toddler bed, comes into their bed because shes upset the new baby is in there with them.
So i dont think a toddler bed makes any difference...
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| Posted 11/19/14 1:46 PM |
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Honey2223
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Re: 2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
Posted by MrsO
I don't know if I would move to the toddler bed as it probably is an adjustment for her. Maybe she is a little jealous baby is in your room.
I may suggest - sitting in her room a little longer that way she feels she is getting the extra attention to.
I definitely think it's an adjustment to new sibling. We have tried: sleeping on the floor next to her crib and she screamed her head off entire time. We have tried letting her fall sleep in our arms or in our bed and then she always wakes up when we transfer her into her crib and screams and yells. It doesn't help that DH and I are sleep deprived and after an hour or hour and a half of this, we cave and she ends up sleeping in our room. I'm getting ready to try the CIO progressive approach bc we are trying everything else and nothing is working.
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Honey2223
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Re: 2 year old sleep regression bc of new baby
Posted by jams92
i would not put her in a toddler bed (unless she really is getting out of her crib). that is a lot of change at once, plus it will just make it easier for her to come out anytime she wants.
when my son was born, my daughter was 15 months old and we had the same issue (although she also hated when i would nurse the baby too but bedtime became a nightmare). it was a jealousy thing...and it still is. We realized she was jealous that she was in bed before the baby and that the baby was in our room while she was in her own room. After week 1....we put our son in his room instead of our room and it really seemed to help. DD still gives us a hard time if we try to put her to bed and her brother is still awake but for the most part we put them to bed at the same time
I agree with your first comment. I can totally see her jumping out of her bed constantly so we haven't done it yet and also bc it would be another big change thrown at her. I was thinking today about letting her "help" us put the baby to sleep in the crib and then letting her go to sleep in her own crib after so that she can see he is not in our room with us. Of course, the baby will be brought back in our room but at least she will think he is not. I'm stressed about tonight already :(
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