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Quick emergency help please! I seem to have created a BIG problem...

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MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 13:25

DD is 2 (+ 1 week) and this morning I moved her bedroom round so she has more room to play. She refused to sleep with the cot in it's new position so I moved it back to it's old position. Other things are still in new positions. She is going crazy and is totally over tired. She would usually have gone to sleep about 2 1/2 - 3 hours ago.

What on earth can I do/try?

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nickschick · 30/11/2009 13:26

wrap her in the jumper you wore yesterday or your nigtshirt and cuddle her up put her in her cot in a darkened room and let her settle.

MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 13:33

Thanks. I just tried putting her in my night shirt as you suggested, made no difference. She is having a TOTAL MELTDOWN wont even go in bed to have her beloved dummy (which she's only allowd in bed).

Have totally fucked this one up She's always been a bad sleeper and was just stating to do ok

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Cherrypieforlunch · 30/11/2009 13:35

Can you put her in the pushchair and go for a quick walk to get her to sleep?

MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 13:39

Good idea, might have to try that. She hasn't fallen asleep in the pushchair since she was 6 months though...

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MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 13:43

Hmmmm. Am worried to give in now. What will happen tonight?

DS (6 months) is freaking now too, because DD wont stop screaming. NOT tring CIO or someshuch she's on my lap...

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MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 13:46

Right. Total desperation. Am going to try the buggy. Will be back...

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nickschick · 30/11/2009 14:22

Im really sorry I misunderstood - shes 2!!! ahh welcome to the terrible 2s ..... i reckon pushchair and fresh air.

BloodRedTulips · 30/11/2009 14:27

it's not much help to your current situation but i have a ds who's a bit funny about change as well and i find it absolutely imperative that he gets lots of warning that something is going to be change and gets to help me plan it and do it.

maybe next time you need to move furniture get her to 'help' you decide where it should go and watch you do it.

she may be naturally trying to drop her nap anyway you know... dd was 18 months when she dropped hers and ds1 dropped his from about 2 although he'd often doze on the couch in the afternoon up until recently.

MadameMoo · 30/11/2009 14:45

Thanks! She's sleeping in the buggy in the garden now. Should I try and move her to her cot?

BloodRed I did talk to her about it several times in the last few days and before I moved stuff I asked her if she wanted me to. She said it was fine, she probably just seemed to understand

We moved the sitting room around a week or so ago and it wasn't an issue at all... I tried to get her to say if she liked it or not but she continued to ignore the question and carried an as normal.

Should I just move everything back?

She's slept pretty well in the day (after a very difficult first 6 months). She carried on sleeping twice a day up to 20/21 months ish and usually sleeps 1 1/2 - 3 hours in the day now. She generally demands to go to bed! Surely she can't have decided to stop napping?

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BornToFolk · 30/11/2009 14:57

I wouldn't try and move her now. Let her sleep and work out a strategy for tomorrow.

I posted recently as I thought that DS was dropping his nap (he's 2.1 too). However, I think that it was just a badly timed tantrum - he wanted another story before bed, I said no, gave him a kiss and left the room...which normally would have been fine but not on that day, he cried and cried and would not settle. That was the only day he missed his nap though.

Now, we just have to do a swift distraction after story and before putting him into bed. So, we tell him it's the last story, read it, then ask him what he's going to do that afternoon. Then while he's chatting about that, pop him into bed, kiss and leave.

It's a tiny thing, but it just seems to take his mind off the fact that he's being put into bed. Once he's there, he seems to remember that it's a nice place to be, and that he's tired and he happily drops off.

Personally, I'd move everything back as it was. You could also try a new dummy? Part of DS's trouble was that he's developed a new habit of chewing through his dummies so they are not as satisfying...

MadameMoe · 30/11/2009 15:03

Thanks Folk. She's awake again, not surprising really, it's blardy cold out there and I can't get the buggy through the back door without folding it. Discovered that my front door keys were missing when we were trying to leave the house just now.

She's never had an issue about going to bed and going to sleep, managing to stay asleep has always been the problem.

I think I'm just going to move everything back. Would it be a good idea to get her to 'help' me?

Am pooing my pants about bedtime but luckily that's DP's job, I'll have to take over if it goes wrong though...

BornToFolk · 30/11/2009 15:56

Try and knacker her out this afternoon so she's really tired at bedtime! Good luck...

MadameMoe · 30/11/2009 17:20

Well, I've decided just to go with the room as rearranged and see what happens. It's perhaps a foolish decision but it's going to have to be moved round like this for her 'big girls bed' to fit in anyway...

We've spent the afternoon in there having loads of fun, playing, eating chocolate and hanging up her new pictures. She says she likes her new 'big girls room'.

Bed time may be fun She is very (too?) tired...

Thanks for all the help, I was in a total panic this afternoon!

MadameMoe · 30/11/2009 19:51

Well, she went to bed as sweet as anything DP took her as usual and there was no fuss bother or palaver in any form

As soon as DP got home she made him go upstairs and look at her room as proud as anything.

Goodness only knows what tonight will bring, but at last she's IN BED and has slept past the vital 45 minute threshold...

Strange creatures aren't they, 2 year olds

MadameMoe · 30/11/2009 19:52

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