Or however that goes.
Porter is back in his crib. Here’s the story:
A few nights ago he started waking up numerous times in the night, walking through our dark house and crawling into bed with us. We’d wake up later to him kicking us and go put him back in his bed. Only to find him back in bed with us shortly after. When we’d put him in bed and firmly tell him "GO TO BED!" he’d scream and bawl (not that it broke my heart, it more or less ticked me off).
Last night we put the baby gate up in his doorway. Figured maybe he’d get up once, realize he was trapped, we’d put him back in bed and voila. Not so.
He woke up, screamed for us from his gated doorway until we walked in and put him back in his bed. Again and again and again and again. Finally I about lost it and growled and snarled at him to stay in bed and then I shut his door. He screamed and screamed. It was not a fun night in our house. I felt like I had a newborn again… getting up a million times at night.
In his bed right now he has the safety rail up so he doesn’t roll out of bed. He can get out of bed (he squeezes through the side) but I’m not sure its that easy to climb back up into the bed with the rail there. So, we’re just going back to the crib until Christmas when he’ll get his big boy bed, in which the mattress sits on the ground so we won’t need a rail. And at that point, we’ll shut his little booty in his room and he can either sleep by the door or in his bed… his choice.
Anyhow… its been a rough week sleeping here. UGH. He’s driving me crazy.
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maybe it’s something in the air. my guys have been giving me trouble going to bed and john, my oldest keeps getting up and saying he can’t sleep. he never does this. i really think it’s due in part to all the scariness of halloween. hope things get better.
Honestly, I found that it sucks transitioning from the crib to the bed. I did it because my soon-to-be 2 year old had a 3 month-old brother who needed the crib and I wasn’t buying another crib.
I had to spank and spank.. there was no way around it. Sorry if you are not a spanker, there was no other way to “break” her. We sat there crying and holding each other (after the 20th spanking)…. and then she finally did it!!
Good luck… it’s hard!
It’s definitely no fun. I think they do it no matter what the age, and if they don’t do it immediately when they transition to a bed, then they do it a few months later. And a few years later. And for the rest of their young little lives…
okay I’m getting carried away. But seriously, do you ever get a reliably sound night of sleep again after you have kids??? Without leaving your house I mean.
Oh another joy of being a parent…
and THESE are the posts… that terrify me. 🙂
I’m sorry to hear that he’s not cooperating with this bed.. 😦 Just know that he won’t be in a crib forever, just not now.