Edward has been sleeping really badly lately. He goes to bed easily at 7pm but will often wake between 1 and 5am. He hasn’t had night feeds for months but occasionally will drop his dummy which needs popping back in or a dose of medicine if he’s teething. However the last few months he’s woken for no apparent reason.
The lack of sleep makes us all grumpy and sometimes I have to beg my husband to get up in the night as I’m just too tired. Last week Edward woke up at 5.30am twice and wouldn’t go back to sleep so we had very loooong days.
This morning my husband went in to him at 5.45am to put his dummy back in and he went back to sleep. I woke up naturally at 7 and was lying in bed thinking how lucky I was that I’d had a decent amount of sleep when I heard a thump. We looked at each other and my husband remarked that it didn’t sound like a dummy falling out of his cot.
I rushed downstairs just in time to catch Edward opening his nursery door. Not only had he fallen over the side of his cot he also managed to reach up and turn the door handle. I’m not sure who was more surprised and Edward burst into tears.
He seemed fine and ate some breakfast but after my husband went to work got a little clingy and sleepy. I called NHS Direct who were great but suggested I get him checked over by a doctor. We were squeezed in at the surgery and he got the all clear by the lovely doctor.
This evening we lowered Edward’s cot to the lowest setting.
3 Comments
Liska
March 29, 2011 at 10:55 pmSorry to hear about this. Hope he didn’t get bruised.
Aaron’s taken a turn for the worse tonight with explosive D at 10 p.m.
x
Liska
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xxx
Carole
March 29, 2011 at 11:14 pmMy eldest boy was walking by 9 months and climbed out of his cot at around 11 months. He thought this was great fun and as we lived in a flat at the time we would put him to bed and a couple of minutes later out he would toddle into the living room. After a couple of nights of this we decided it was time for a bed and a baby gate on his bedroom door.
He hated the bed and the baby gate as you can imagine there were tears and tantrums as he climbed out of the bed and stood at the baby gate screaming to be let out. It took 3 nights of constantly going back in putting him back in bed and repeating the whole process over and over again until exhausted he would fall asleep. As I say this went on for three nights and it was heartbreaking, but we stuck to our guns and in no time at all we had a good bedtime routine in place, we could have so easily have given in, but we were so glad we didn’t. By the end of the week we had two happy parents and one happy little boy. x