Sleep/Behavior Issues
Mar 16, 2017 10:25:49 GMT -5
Post by gahorseygal on Mar 16, 2017 10:25:49 GMT -5
So my 2.5 year old has had some sleep issues since shortly after the new year. She's been a great sleeper until this point. Sometime in January she started waking up multiple times a night (just as we got the baby sleeping through the night!). She's back to sleeping through the night, but now bedtime takes FOREVER. I've talked with my sister and we came to the consensus that part of it might just be this age, as her kids have done the same thing. But my issue is that her behavior seems to be really affected.
We try to get her in bed by 8pm. We start the bedtime routine shortly after 7pm. She gets to watch cartoons in our bed while one of us puts DS down. Then she brushes teeth, PJ's, potty, songs/book in bed. Then we say goodnight and leave her room. She will whine and cry asking to go potty (she won't go earlier a lot of the time and waits to use it as a stall tactic), asking for a kiss, things we try to do before this point to avoid this. She will sound like she is absolutely dying, yelling about lord knows what, and I start to feel guilty wondering if she needs to poop (she poops at night a lot). I've had times where I've ignored her then gone to check and she had pooped in the little potty in her room and didn't want it in there. Or she had peed herself. I seriously feel sick thinking about the few times this happened and that's why I can't just shut her in her room and leave her there to cry. I wouldn't want my poop sitting in my room either.
Any way. All of this to say she usually doesn't fall asleep until almost 10pm. So 2 hours of crying (Or just playing, depending on the night). She wakes up early but she has one of those clocks that changes color so she stays in bed until 6:30am. Also she takes a nap at daycare, her teacher said she usually gets a good 1.5 hours if not 2.
So the problem is that ever since she's had some sleep issues she has been very whiney/weepy. She cries the whole way to school, she's cries at dropoffs (hadn't happened since she first started daycare), she will cry and throw tantrums at pickup, and her teacher said she has really moody days at school.
What can I do? Is this normal? I just feel like that can't be enough sleep, especially since she is so upset most of day. Hubs and I have been working on talking with her about her feelings and the proper way to express those feelings instead of throwing tantrums. I just can't help but feel like I'm ruining her with daycare and her not getting enough sleep. Can they still get over stimulated at this age?
We try to get her in bed by 8pm. We start the bedtime routine shortly after 7pm. She gets to watch cartoons in our bed while one of us puts DS down. Then she brushes teeth, PJ's, potty, songs/book in bed. Then we say goodnight and leave her room. She will whine and cry asking to go potty (she won't go earlier a lot of the time and waits to use it as a stall tactic), asking for a kiss, things we try to do before this point to avoid this. She will sound like she is absolutely dying, yelling about lord knows what, and I start to feel guilty wondering if she needs to poop (she poops at night a lot). I've had times where I've ignored her then gone to check and she had pooped in the little potty in her room and didn't want it in there. Or she had peed herself. I seriously feel sick thinking about the few times this happened and that's why I can't just shut her in her room and leave her there to cry. I wouldn't want my poop sitting in my room either.
Any way. All of this to say she usually doesn't fall asleep until almost 10pm. So 2 hours of crying (Or just playing, depending on the night). She wakes up early but she has one of those clocks that changes color so she stays in bed until 6:30am. Also she takes a nap at daycare, her teacher said she usually gets a good 1.5 hours if not 2.
So the problem is that ever since she's had some sleep issues she has been very whiney/weepy. She cries the whole way to school, she's cries at dropoffs (hadn't happened since she first started daycare), she will cry and throw tantrums at pickup, and her teacher said she has really moody days at school.
What can I do? Is this normal? I just feel like that can't be enough sleep, especially since she is so upset most of day. Hubs and I have been working on talking with her about her feelings and the proper way to express those feelings instead of throwing tantrums. I just can't help but feel like I'm ruining her with daycare and her not getting enough sleep. Can they still get over stimulated at this age?