Kate has been going to bed super easy for months now. We have our pre-bed wind-down period and routine, then I say good night to her, walk her into her room, put her down, tell her I love her, then leave. And she goes to sleep. This has been such a nice thing… but the last few weeks I’ve been feeling kind of sad and a little bit hormonal. I miss cuddling her, I don’t get to do that very often – she’s up and down and running around. I only really get cuddles when she’s falling asleep sitting with me on the couch (middle of the night wakeups, usually). So I decided to change up the routine a little bit and take a step “backwards,” as it were. When I take her into her bedroom, before putting her in her bed, I sit on the floor with her on my lap, rock her, and sing her a lullaby. She quickly got used to it and now says, “Sing?” when we go into her room at nap time. As soon as I sit down she gets comfortable and leans her head on my shoulder. It’s always the same song: Morningtown Ride<\/i>, a lullaby from my childhood. It is so peaceful to be able to hold her in the dark for even a minute or two. She’ll always be my baby.<\/p>\n
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Well at least that worked well until this week. Den coming home has really thrown off bedtime. At first we thought she must be teething, she was screaming and screaming when I took her near her room. But oddly enough she wasn’t doing it at nap time when Den was at work. I started watching her closely around bedtime. She is showing all the usual signs of being ready for bed: rolling around, getting quiet, rubbing her eyes, asking for Elmo, sitting with a blanket. But when I gently pick her up and say the word bed? Hysterics. Absolute hysterics. And asking for daddy. And if I put her down she runs to him and wants to PLAY. We tried putting her to bed together, but then she’d just get wound up and try climbing out of bed and running off to play. I tried saying night-night to daddy and taking her in there myself, and that’s when the real tantrum hysterics kick in – I have never seen her throw a fit like this. All I can figure is that she just doesn’t want to stop fun time with daddy (even though we’ve had an hour+ of mellow time before bed, it’s not like we interrupt play time for bed), or she’s upset that in the morning when she wakes up he’ll be gone (at work).<\/p>\n
I really hope she adjusts soon because I’d really like to spend time with Den, he needs sleep, and when the baby is born it’s likely going to be him putting her to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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