May 19, 2004
Spark doesn't like bedtime
Spark has decided to have trouble sleeping again. He used to just fall asleep no problem. Now he starts off fine, but then a few minutes after going down, he stands up and starts crying. If I come in to lay him down again, he is again fine for a few minutes, but then the cycle repeats. If I just let him cry, he cries for a verrrrrrry long time until he poops out and falls asleep. Then an hour later, he'll jolt awake and start crying again.
Not sure what to do. Especially since he used to be so good at sleeping. I wonder what happened. At any rate, something needs to change. I can't continue getting up a half-a dozen times every night. Combine that with my clusters waking me up and my sleep is a fragmented mess.
- wink [May 19, 2004 03:24 PM]Jeremy Pierce says:
It sounds as if he wants you there and thinks you'll show up simply because he cries. You might try letting him cry for a half hour after he jolts awake and not sending the signal that you're responding to it. Once he sees that you're ignoring him, he may get the point and stop doing it. Unfortunately, this sort of training takes a few days, during which you get little sleep. It always happened to us during heavy grading periods.
wink says:
When I say that he cries for a verrrrrrry long time, I'm talking about an hour or so. I've been trying to "ignore him" so that he won't think that I'm at his beck and call, but he still cries for forever until he exhausts himself.
This has been going on for almost a week now. And my attempts so far to let him cry it out have not produced much by the way of results. I may have to try something new.