AIBU to think about waking her up every 30m tonight?

[Polkadotpatty]

Since LO (nearly 3) woke me every half hour from 3 a.m. onwards screaming, then turned into a grinning "peekaboo!" as soon as I opened the door to her room, it's fine to do the same to her tonight, right?!
She just wanted to say hello, apparently...

Lol - been there. Tempting isn't it? Trouble is - if you do it back; you have to live with Oscar The Grouch during daylight hours

Ha ha ha haa.... you really haven;t thought this through have you... it means you have to be awake every 30 mins to do that.

Hate to say it but I co-slept with DS inititally. Then he slept alone for about a year then co-sleeping again then semi-co-sleeping and now pretty much securely in his own bed.

I got loads more sleep that way!

Hmm, I might be more up for co-sleeping if she let me lay down!

yes not laying down might be a tad tricky

DS had known me 2 months before I took him so he was a bit more familiar with me. He used to wake up in the night and reach his arm out and pat the bed until he found me so if we hadn't coslept I'd have been up A LOT! Added to which we were staying in a renting flat with no cot so there was no choice but to co-sleep.

Wish I'd known you were up too patty - we were also peeka-booing in the early hours. I find it impossible not to engage when that little face peeks through the cot bars!

Hmm, yes the little face is very very lovely, but it has been aa EXTREMELY long day today as a result of last night

She was super-grumpy this afternoon when I woke her from her nap but there was no way I was letting that run over its normal time and in any way curtail the chance of sleep (for both of us) tonight.

Pru we should have texted for solidarity!

I spent our first two months sleeping on the bedroom floor with ours as ds woke up at least once an hour. It was just easier to sit up than get out of bed and walk.

I'm going to link this thread every time I see the monumentally stupid (and badly informed) comment about avoiding sleep deprivation by adopting...

Our DS thinks "co-sleeping" means "co-jumping up and down on Mummy and Daddy's bed".
So we don't do that.
I have to say I'd have been saying "no peekaboo, night night" from outside the door after the second time. But we are mean.

Slept through from 1 until ... well, still sleeping!

lol - she is storing hours - so that she can do it all again tomorrow night !!

'love you Mummy'

Girlinaswirl you are psychic. Sigh.

Yes, those big eyes are nature's way of keeping wakeful wee ones alive I presume!!

I know it must be tiring but she does sound very cute. She did just want to say hello after all.

POlka I have long said that toddlers are so cute in order to prevent their parents murdering them the rest of the time.

DS is a very good sleeper so I know I come across as very smug on these threads. But he woke us up at 4 this morning to complain his raraszh (his word for dummy) clip had come undone.

Kew you are a woman of wisdom

Have you considered letting her sleep in your bed with you?
It sounds to me as though she's checking in with you, just to make sure that you're still there and will go to her. As awful as it must be for you from a lack of sleep point of view, by doing what you're doing, she will be building her trust in you in her own way which is a very good thing indeed :)
If she's next to you, then you might both get a bit more sleep....and it will all help attachment too......

I'd be up for co-sleeping but she goes nuts if I try and sleep next to her - the little despot likes me to be awake apparently! She calms with a very short cuddle before she's stretching her arms out for her cot and yawning, and remains calm when I leave the room, and then anywhere from 20-45 minutes later, we start again.

She's definitely checking in, and needs that, but she's made it pretty clear she also wants her space as she babbles to herself in her room for ages, I think sort of working through her day based on the words I can pick out. So for now, I'm just going to her whenever she seems to want it, in a haze of sleep deprivation, desperately hoping to still be alive once she starts to trust I'll come and so screams less...