why does it have to be a battle?
Why is it that bedtime has to be such a battle at the moment. I understand that our darling daughter is teething at the moment, but it has never been this bad. She won’t feed to sleep easily and if I try to pick her up and rock/carry/walk her she screams like I’m cutting her fingers and toes off one at a time.
I feel so frustrated, and I’m sure that she does too, that we can’t communicate more effectively than we currently do. Kira has what I consider a wide vocabulary. I’m not suggesting that she is uber smart or anything, just that we can communicate quite well most of the time. Why is it then that when I pick her up to try to get her to sleep the only form of communication she seems to posses is thrashing around like a dieing fish and screaming at the top of her lungs.
It becomes quite a violent struggle on her part some nights and I wonder if what I am doing does more harm than good. She is tired, she’s had a long day and now she wont go to sleep.
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Alistair Said,
February 28, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
Unfortunately Jake, moving away from the Gold Coast isn’t going to help Kira go to sleep. That said, I sympathise with your situation totally. At the moment, I am going to bed consistently after midnight (just because I don’t feel tired at all) and for some freak show reason, my body is consistently waking up in the very early hours (pre:5am) - arrgghh!