Lack Of Sleep

Aubree the day before her birthday - Sorry about the bad photo, it was done using my digi cam as a webcam, that way it wouldn't be as dark as it tends to be(though it still came out dark). It's a cheap digital camera ($20). This is her the day before she turned 2 years old. Where'd the time go?
United States
January 28, 2007 3:19pm CST
Will someone please tell me I'm not alone? My daughter is 2 years old, and she doesn't nap anymore. That is fine with me, because she usually doesn't need one (she does take one sometimes, when she shows she needs one. Generally though, she is in a good mood for the whole day and shows no signs of being tired). What gets me though, is the fact that she likes to wake up between 1:30-5am. Before my mom even gets up for work. She wakes up, full of life, and gets into things that she's not supposed to. That is the point where she ends up in my bed with a movie on for her to watch so I can get some sleep. Then the next night she does it all over again. This doesn't happen constantly. It usually happens a week or so out of every month. It drives me nuts! Not to mention that once she does go back to sleep (sometimes not until after the movie has been played 2 times atleast), she gets up at 8am, ready to go for a new day. Crazier is the fact that sometimes she isn't going to bed until 9pm or later! This can't be normal. Does anyone else have a problem like this with their child? Any advice?
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apky12
@apky12 (769)
• United States
28 Jan 07
What does she want when she wakes up at night? Just to play? I would just go in there, tell her it's night night and walk out. That's whyat I do with my almost 3 year old when he wakes up. If he cries he cries. I let him cry for 15 minutes and go in there again, hold him and tell him the same thing.
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angelashupe
@angelashupe (343)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Aubree, I think, wants to watch a movie in my bed. Though that isn't what doe does when she first gets up. If she got into anything while I was still asleep, she brings it to me, gets her pillow and "bebe" (her security blanket), climbs into my bed and lays down. Then I usually put in a movie & go back to sleep. She lays there and watches the movie until she falls back to sleep. I've tried many times, before now, to put her back in bed and tell her to go back to sleep. I used to do that before finally letting her lay in my bed and watch a movie. She never would. Go back to sleep, anyway. She would sit in her bed quietly until I was asleep again. Then she'd do what she was doing all over again.
mdilan
@mdilan (803)
• United States
28 Jan 07
What I noticed my now, my toddler, is that since he was born he would always wake up at night a lot. He is 13 months old and he still gets up like 2 times. toddlers will have a stage in which thwey will begetting up like that. They have discovered so many things they just can't keep themselves still!
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angelashupe
@angelashupe (343)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Thanks for your quick response. I really hope she is just going through a stage. I really really hope so. I want my bed back, and I want to be able to sleep a full night again. I really miss that.