Lily has been able to sit unassisted since she was 6mos. - she is now 6.5 mos and has mastered the technique of getting herself into a seated postion on her own. She has been doing this for a week now. For some reason, all of a sudden today, she will not nap and will not stop rolling around and sitting up in her crib. She has always had a difficult time unwinding and generally cries/fusses/or wail for as short as 3 minutes to as long as 20 minutes prior to falling asleep. I have always just let her go due to the fact that she does not like to be held or rocked or anything. She fights sleep with a venegance. My question is, should I go in and gently put her on her belly when she is at this for a while or should I just let her work it out (like I usually do) and understand that it may take a while for her to get over her excitement about this new found skill. I am a bit worried as she is already starting to try to pull to standing as well. She is trying to use anything she can get herself on - us, her bumpo, her playgym on the floor to pull herself up and it is quite frightening. Also, when she sits in her crib she sometimes falls and hits her head on the crib slats - it makes me nuts! HELP! Amy
Haven't had that problem yet, but I'd probably just leave her. Once she has it mastered, things will probably return to normal (until she finds something else new to work on)....but I am wondering how the separation went? Suzi
QUOTE(SusieQ @ Dec 19 2007, 06:23 PM) [snapback]540510[/snapback] Haven't had that problem yet, but I'd probably just leave her. Once she has it mastered, things will probably return to normal (until she finds something else new to work on)....but I am wondering how the separation went? Suzi Hey Suzi, It was a major Pain in the you know what painting the new rooms, etc... but we moved them on Monday night and DD STTN 7-7 and DS woke only at 5:30 and went right back down until 7am. Last night DD STTN 7-7 again and DS woke at 11:30pm ????? but went back and woke around 6am and moaned and groaned until I got him at 6:45. I say it is a success so far but am afraid to jinx it. I was afraid it would effect their naps as they are more aware of their surroundings then but it did not seem to make a difference! Thanks for asking! Amy
well first off, if she's trying to pull herself up on things I'd recommend moving the matress to the lowest setting if you haven't already so she doesn't fall out when she does pull herself up. one of my boys pulls himself up to standing almost every time I put him in his bed, and no matter how many times I lay him down he just pulls right back up. eventually he does lay down and go to sleep on his own though. so I would just sugguest that you keep doing what you're doing, and let her put herself to sleep. especially since she just fights you rather than letting you rock her to sleep. my 2yo used to fight sleep with a vengence too, and the only thing that ever worked was to let her cry it out. I hated listening to the crying, but it was better than fighting to get her to sleep, loosing the fight, finally putting her in bed anyway and still haveing to listen to the crying. at least this way I wasn't all worn out from trying to rock her and having her fight it. and eventually (it took months) she did get to where I could just put her down (same time every day, she knew it was comming) and she just went to sleep w/o a tear. that was a good day! good luck!
QUOTE(ahmerl @ Dec 19 2007, 12:58 PM) [snapback]540568[/snapback] Hey Suzi, It was a major Pain in the you know what painting the new rooms, etc... but we moved them on Monday night and DD STTN 7-7 and DS woke only at 5:30 and went right back down until 7am. Last night DD STTN 7-7 again and DS woke at 11:30pm ????? but went back and woke around 6am and moaned and groaned until I got him at 6:45. I say it is a success so far but am afraid to jinx it. I was afraid it would effect their naps as they are more aware of their surroundings then but it did not seem to make a difference! Thanks for asking! Amy That's great news Amy! I hope it continues! Suzi
Wow, your DD is a genius! Sitting and pulling up already! What a little firecracker! I'd just ignore it. If she figures out that she can get you to come in a zillion times to reposition her, she'll probably keep it up a lot longer. When my DS got really mobile, he would get in all kinds of crazy positions in his crib - we have one photo of him asleep on his side sucking on a crib railing with both arms sticking out! For a while we'd rescue him, but as soon as we stopped doing that, he somehow stopped getting in crazy positions to begin with. HMM.
I would ignore it. Ana does this all the time and when she is tired, she will lay down and fall asleep... almost always. Last night at 4am she was crying because she was half standing/half kneeling holding onto the bars of the crib and couldn't get herself down. I didn't want her to wake up Meara so I layed her down and she went right to sleep. Oh and just expect her naps to get all messed up while she is mastering her new skills. This week has been nuts with naps because of Ana starting to pull up and almost cruise and Meara *finally* learning how to get into a sitting position (even though she was the first to sit unassisted at 6 months old). Of course I'm thrilled they are learning so much but would have loved it if they waited one more week for DH to get home.
As Mooshie said, I would lower the bed down. Other than that, I think you hit on the nose. Just do what you always do and let it work itself out. The excitement will wear off. You can't stop it if you wanted to. Once you walk out, she'll just sit up again if that's what she wants to do. I would deffinately go in though when you know she has fallen asleep and check on her. My one dd would fall asleep in the strangest posistions because she would fall asleep sitting up. She still actually does sometimes. I often find her completely asleep between her 2 legs (they are so flexible!). The other day my dh found our daughter asleep sitting up leaning against the crib bumper with her forehead holding her up. Too funny. But we always fix them so they don't get weird aches when they wake up.
I would just ignore it as long as the crib is lowered and she can't fall out. My DD"s did this when they learned to sit and when they learned to stand. It takes a few days but they get over it! It's just a new trick they are tryign to show off!
