As I type up this blog post, my little baby girl who should be napping....is well not napping but jumping around in her crib like it was a trampoline. All I hear are the squeaky noises of her mattress springs as she jumps... giggles...and then shouts... "Mommy" followed by a deep angry cry. I can not decide if she is now over tired and fighting it or not tired at all and perhaps I should just go set her free. Oh where did my good little napper go?
My good little napper who'd sleep two hours every afternoon, would wave and say "nigh,nigh"as you left the room...now screams, cries and kicks in protest the moment she is placed in her crib. I can not decide if she is having separation anxiety, or if our sweet little girl is just trying to enforce her own will and desires upon us. It has been over a week of fighting to get her to nap even go to bed at night and I am feeling a little drained out and so uncertain about how to handle this. I hate hearing her scream and cry...it hurts....but I also feel neglectful if she's playing around in crib by her self. Oh what do I do.?
Oh man I totally hear you. Daisy has gone through this a lot lately too. How many naps a day does your gal take? Part of what I did to work on this was to make sure D was in fact really tired before putting her down. So I made her nap time a little later and tried to wait for a yawn or sign so that I knew she as def. tired. Then she would go to bed and talk and whine and shriek and I would walk in and say, "Daisy, it is time to go night night." and I would lay her back down gently and snuggle her with her blanket again. I never took her out and I think she started to learn that she had to go to sleep..took about 30 minutes each time and drove me crazy!! I also cut down her afternoon nap to make her more tired and it somehow balanced her out in the morning. She has taken her longest naps ever this week I hate hearing them cry...I feel yah on that one. Good luck friend! She sure looks adorable sleeping with her bunny!
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