Now, these are both completely my fault. I take full responsibility, so I am going to try easing her into breaking both habits. However, it's getting harder to have to lay with her until she falls asleep as I have started a part time work from home business and would like to be able to go to bed myself at a reasonable time. As for sleeping with me, well, I have a queen sized bed and she actually takes up pretty much the whole thing AND she ALWAYS has to bring at least one friend with her. I will use this blog to document the journey and just update here each day or week.
Day 1.
I feel like getting her comfortable being in the bedroom alone, with the lights off is probably the best first step. So I prepped her for that transition by giving her a couple of DVD options (each 30-45 mins max) . She got to choose one, and that was the one she would "climb in mommy's bed and watch". I told her that when it went off to let me know and then it would be time to go night night. She did great with that, I turned the lights off, put on Barbie's Horseland, and pulled the door up. (I do not close doors completely in my house unless they lead to outside.) She was fine, no tears, she stayed there quietly and watched the DVD. Once it went off though, she actually did cry when it was time to go to sleep. Which is abnormal for her, for the most part. When she fell asleep, I left the room as usual. The bad thing I did is that today she is with her dad, so I started a new routine on a bad day. I will try this routine for about 3-5 days and see what the changes are.
Day 1...AGAIN.
Well, since the last time I blogged about this, I haven't done anything else. lol. so much for consistency right?..hey, well at least my kid is potty trained. Anyway, I tried again last night, and I will try this same thing again tonight..hopefully :/. This time, I had her climb in her own bed, and I stayed in the room with her. We sang songs together, me from my bed, her from hers, and I was hoping that she kind of sang herself to sleep. Which has happened before..but in my bed. That didn't work, but she did stay in her bed the entire time, with a few almost tear breaks. Once we were done singing, I put a timer on, and told her that she could climb in my bed once the timer went off since she was so sad and on the verge of tears. Again, I thought she would wait herself to sleep. I set the timer for 15 minutes, told her she had to be quiet and keep her eyes closed while she waited, and she agreed. She did ask about 5 minutes in if the timer had gone off yet, but other than that, she was very quiet and I thought she fell asleep. I was so proud. Then the timer went off and she popped up with joy like a pop tart and said "now I climb in mommy's bed?" So, I told her she could, so long as she left all of her friends in her bed. FAIL. i know lol. whatever. in due time i guess.
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