Bedtime {June 23, 2010}
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Just Us
This is a perfect night with Reagan. Eat dinner, bath time, and get dressed in our jammies before bed. LOVE IT.
Can't you just smell the Johnson's... Nothing like a clean baby : )
She NEVER forgets to kiss her Sissy before bed, even though Cirs could go her whole life without it.
Heaven.
Now.
That is what a NORMAL night is like.
We had a period of 6 LONG days last week where Reagan did NOT want to sleep in her bed.
It's almost like she was afraid of it?!
This is the most predictable baby, and she really ONLY sleeps in her bed. She always wants to do it on her own and never rocked to sleep. (I worked hard on that when she was little, (1st time it ever bit me in the butt though) I could not figure anything out to do, so she stayed up doing the only thing that would calm her, watching Maria. We got 2 hours into the movie, PAST bedtime and NO nap mind you, until she dragged me into the bedroom and cried for 30 seconds before crashing.
During that LONG week, she would PANIC when I put her in bed, so naps were out of the question, weird for a baby who normally takes a 2 hour nap.? I just had to pray that she would crash out of exhaustion at the end of the day.
Things are okay now, thank goodness.
I still have no idea what happened to her, or why she was so afraid. The child doesn't see anything remotely scary on TV and only watches Maria, Word World and SuperWhy. We really couldn't figure it out.
Sometimes you do all you can, and there still is no answer. I always try to remember that what doesn't work today, might work tomorrow. But sometimes when you are 'in the moment' you can feel
completely helpless.
Now.
That is what a NORMAL night is like.
We had a period of 6 LONG days last week where Reagan did NOT want to sleep in her bed.
It's almost like she was afraid of it?!
This is the most predictable baby, and she really ONLY sleeps in her bed. She always wants to do it on her own and never rocked to sleep. (I worked hard on that when she was little, (1st time it ever bit me in the butt though) I could not figure anything out to do, so she stayed up doing the only thing that would calm her, watching Maria. We got 2 hours into the movie, PAST bedtime and NO nap mind you, until she dragged me into the bedroom and cried for 30 seconds before crashing.
During that LONG week, she would PANIC when I put her in bed, so naps were out of the question, weird for a baby who normally takes a 2 hour nap.? I just had to pray that she would crash out of exhaustion at the end of the day.
Things are okay now, thank goodness.
I still have no idea what happened to her, or why she was so afraid. The child doesn't see anything remotely scary on TV and only watches Maria, Word World and SuperWhy. We really couldn't figure it out.
Sometimes you do all you can, and there still is no answer. I always try to remember that what doesn't work today, might work tomorrow. But sometimes when you are 'in the moment' you can feel
completely helpless.
(don't worry, I didn't step away to get the camera during her panic moments. We were just playing, taking some pictures a few days before and she was being a little whiny about a toy or something... I'm not completely cruel.)
