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I might try camp it out because laying in bed with our daughter is not working because she can just feel the bed shift when we get out of it and instantly wakes up.

Now that she's able to open bedroom doors she's like, fuck this sleep thing I'll just get out of bed. So nap time has been fun to say the least since Christmas.
 
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My friends had success with what I guess was "camp-it-out" when they were crib training their then 9 month old who had co-slept to that point. The Mom just set up their air mattress in the nursery and slept on that for like a week or so till their daughter got used to the crib. I'm not sure how she approached bedtime and whether she'd leave the room or just chill in there the rest of the evening or what not, but it did work for them.

Not sure if that would have worked for me or not. My daughter is a great sleeper, but the one thing guaranteed to wake her up is opening or closing her door. We can play loud movies, have people over drinking, stomp past her bedroom, have the dog bark her head off at absolutely nothing, she sleeps right through it. But if that door moves at all, no matter how quietly I try to sneak in or out of her room, she is instant awake. Can't just leave it cracked open either otherwise the cats get in her room and wake her up.
 
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That might be tough if she's mobile enough to leave the room. Since my daughter was old enough to come yell at me instead of lying down when she was supposed to I adjusted the method a little and used the threat of me leaving the room to get her lying down.
 
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My two month olds sleep through pretty much any noise. Hope that doesn't change. Really not much seems to wake them up besides touching them or them just wanting to be awake
 
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Last few weeks have been hell. Kid has 5 teeth coming in and just not going to sleep until like 330 to 500 am. I am miserable.
 
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Wasn't joking when I said it earlier in the thread.

We turned the doorknob the other way so the lock was in the hallway and let them cry it out. We monitored them the whole time but it was very clear when it is bed time it is bed time and same with naps.
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
Last few weeks have been hell. Kid has 5 teeth coming in and just not going to sleep until like 330 to 500 am. I am miserable.
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What Bloodborne boss is that? yikes Poor kiddo. Ours has 8 of his teeth in now and hasn't fussed about any of them. I fully expected him to scream bloody murder through teething but the worst of it has been the drooling. He drools so goddamn much sometimes he'll soak whatever shirt or onesie he is wearing completely.

We're also going through some sleep issues. Not really sure wtf is going on but all of a sudden the past week and a half or so the kid is waking up 2-3 times a night and taking 45-90 minutes to get back to sleep. My wife has had to step in the late late night awakenings because I'm just a damn zombie at that point. It gets to the point where I fall asleep sitting up I'm so tired. However last night he only woke up once at 11 then slept until 630. I am not expecting that again tonight.
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Man, I just have no patience lately. I already have a bad temper that I've done better with, but I don't know if it's because my son is finally getting assessed this week or the steroid I'm on for some congested lungs that's got me so on edge and ready to just outright beat my children at the smallest infraction (note: I haven't). Both just sound like excuses to me.

I grew up fearing my ass being beat or getting slapped when appropriate. It's more and more difficult to not fall into that line of parenting for my 4 y/o son, when he does things like try and bite his mother or hitting or saying what seems to be like one word for the whole weekend - no.

We are just so done with this. The defiance, the jumps off a cliff into irrationality our son so quickly slips into at even the hint of something not going his way. So sick of the weekly calls to pick him up from school because he won't listen and is running out of his class, or throwing things, or hit a teacher... and the monthly reminder that he nearly hurt someone and if that happens we have to find a new daycare. He kicked an older teacher square in the side of the knee, with shoes on... closest call we've had.

My wife's latest thing to try and get through to him is just restraining him. He starts to hit anything and she holds him (arms, legs). Sets a timer for 2 minutes, lets him go. He hits again, repeat. This is usually a 6-8 minute exercise, the longest being tonight when he started trying to bite her, which she made into a 5 minute penalty.

If I did that to my dad I'd have problems sitting down for the next 20-30 minutes.

The alternative is usually taking him to his room, and we sit on the floor in front of the door (since he won't stay in it, and timeout downstairs is ineffective, won't stay even if we put him back 20 times) while he completely loses his shit - and often has to be restrained or he'll continue to hit/kick/throw everything in his room.

Not sure what I'm looking to accomplish by posting this, not really asking a question, just getting my frustration out. I guess my biggest fear is we'll do the assessment, he's not a slam dunk for any particular 'thing' they can classify him under and we're told 'learn to parent'. I keep telling myself that can't possibly happen, we're seemingly the only parents dealing with this kind of thing at his daycare. My only hope for this week is progress towards being able to help him better. Don't care who's fault or what we need to do to make that happen.

This sucks.
 
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Damn Noodle and meStevo, that sucks. I felt like a martyr the other night when the boy was up from 1:30am to 3:30am or so, a little perspective goes a long way. I wish I had some advice, sympathy will have to do I'm afraid.

I do something like "camp it out" I guess, put him in crib and hang around till he starts to drift off then leave. I used to leave earlier, right after putting him down, but when he started to stand up I started staying because I figured he would never voluntarily lie back down unless he passed out from exhaustion.
 
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Glad someone posted something, felt like I killed the thread
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Had some fun this weekend, 21 month old decided to climb out of her crib for the first time. So we took off the side, put up the mini barrier thingy we used on my son so she can't roll off and it's a new adventure of 'here's your room, please take a nap' and also 'no, it's bedtime, back in bed'.

A coworker is back at work after having her first kid, talking about the late nights and quasi-schedule she has with her husband. Those seem like such simple times in hindsight... though I hated cleaning bottles and breastpump parts with a passion, definitely some selective memory there.
 
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I hate HATE HATE cleaning bottles. Every night we can guarantee there will be 6 I need to clean. If I say fuck it for one night, the next night the kitchen is like armageddon with bottles. Hopefully soon he'll transition to mostly solid.

Last night the little dude went to bed at 7, woke up at 10, then slept through the night. First time in 3 or 4 weeks probably and it was a godsend. I celebratory-fucked the shit out of my wife. She was worried I was gonna wake him up but it took me like 15 seconds.
 
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The thought of cleaning bottles and breast pump parts is enough to get my to call around to a urologist this afternoon. Time to get this shit taken care of.
 
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We're down to just two bottles a day, solids otherwise. Those will be replaced by a sippy cup or whatever soon, but those are basically the same thing to clean. Either way, it's an improvement. At the very beginning the feeding/bottle cleaning cycle reminded me of Cylon attacks in the pilot episode of Battlestar. Finish one wave, prepare for the next. Longer than 33 minutes, but didn't feel like it sometimes.
 
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a_skeleton_03_sl said:
Wasn't joking when I said it earlier in the thread.

We turned the doorknob the other way so the lock was in the hallway and let them cry it out. We monitored them the whole time but it was very clear when it is bed time it is bed time and same with naps.
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Yeah we did the same thing but started younger. It was tough because it pulled on your heart strings when they wee crying, but we stuck it out. They cried like 2-3 nights each getting progressively shorter, then like on the 4th or 5th night, put them in cribs and out like shout. Its the best thing we ever did. Ever since then when it was bed time, they went to their rooms, we tucked them in and it was good night. To this day, (they are 14 and 12) we say its bed time, around 10PM during the week, they dont give us much shit. We let them stay up on the weekends and vacations though however long they want. We give them that freedom since we had it growing up too. But usually the younger one crashes around 11PM anyways, and the older one is in the basement playing his xbone with buddies.
 
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I'd also like to add the other night was the first time I bathed him by myself. Of course he shit the tub, full on log. He'd never done that before.

So now I've gotten newborn diarrhea tar shit on my arm and also a log in the tub on my arm.
 
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Newborn poop I can deal with. It was my two year old's shits that smelled like sweaty Italian plumbers that I couldn't deal with.
 
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Oh man, I was just to opposite. I can handle the smell of solid-food poop but hated dealing with the mess of breastmilk poop. Might partially be because we cloth-diaper at home so with liquid/newborn poop you had to go wash and rinse the diapers, whereas solid poops can be contained in little disposable liners and easily disposed of so the diaper can usually go straight into the hamper.
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
I'd also like to add the other night was the first time I bathed him by myself. Of course he shit the tub, full on log. He'd never done that before.

So now I've gotten newborn diarrhea tar shit on my arm and also a log in the tub on my arm.
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I laughed hard.

Not quite as gross but earlier today I was holding him standing up in front of me. He leans toward me with his mouth open. I think oh he wants to give baby kisses. Nope. Little bugger wanted to belch in my goddamn face and then he giggled.


And poop. My god just this last week he dropped a nuclear bomb in his diaper twice which prompted both of us to say FUCK IT! in the shower to get hosed down. It's like they exploded in a mushroom cloud out the top of his diaper all the way up his damn back. And the stench. Goddamn. Not quite sweaty Italian plumber bad but holy shit it was BAD.
 
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