Good News Bad News
The good news ... According to "the sleep doctors" Judy Owens and Jodi Mindell, Bryon and I are doing everything we should to get Jake to sleep through the night. We have a bedtime routine and a consistent bedroom environment. We have him fall asleep on his own. We check on him and "respond to him" during the night.
The bad news ... IT DOESN'T WORK.
For months and months now, Jake gets up during the night at least once, usually two or three times, and has ginormous, vein-popping, wake-the-neighbors fits.
The first problem I see is that he is a stubborn as the most stubborn thing you can think of. If you ask nicely, "Jakey, can Mommy take you to bed?" you get "YOU GO AWAY. I DON'T LIKE YOU ANYMORE!" Except "anymore" is drawn out so it can be as painful and lingering as possible - AN-EEEE-MOOOORE!
As luck would have it, this means Bryon gets the brunt of Jake's rages. After putting him to bed about 10 times last night, Jake, the little pisher, got up at 3 and refused to go back to bed until around 4:30. We follow the advice of the good doctors Owens and Mindell and from what I've seen of Supernanny in that we "calmly" put him back in bed each time, "calmly" say good night and "calmly" leave the room, only to hear his frantic, crazed footsteps within seconds.
Everyone who knows our situation tells us it will pass. But when you are smack in the middle of it, you feel like it will never pass and no one really understands how bad it is. Except, maybe, the neighbors.
The bad news ... IT DOESN'T WORK.
For months and months now, Jake gets up during the night at least once, usually two or three times, and has ginormous, vein-popping, wake-the-neighbors fits.
The first problem I see is that he is a stubborn as the most stubborn thing you can think of. If you ask nicely, "Jakey, can Mommy take you to bed?" you get "YOU GO AWAY. I DON'T LIKE YOU ANYMORE!" Except "anymore" is drawn out so it can be as painful and lingering as possible - AN-EEEE-MOOOORE!
As luck would have it, this means Bryon gets the brunt of Jake's rages. After putting him to bed about 10 times last night, Jake, the little pisher, got up at 3 and refused to go back to bed until around 4:30. We follow the advice of the good doctors Owens and Mindell and from what I've seen of Supernanny in that we "calmly" put him back in bed each time, "calmly" say good night and "calmly" leave the room, only to hear his frantic, crazed footsteps within seconds.
Everyone who knows our situation tells us it will pass. But when you are smack in the middle of it, you feel like it will never pass and no one really understands how bad it is. Except, maybe, the neighbors.
posted by Romine Family at 1:35 PM
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