On the morning of Friday 2/15, Micah heard that Aubrey was up for the morning and went into her bedroom to get her out of her crib. She was not in it, but clinging to the crib hanging on the side about to fall out.
That's right. Aubrey is now attempting to climb out of her crib. We hoped this was a fluke and/or that this scary event of almost falling out deter her from doing it again.
That night after she went to bed, Micah and I were catching up on DVR'd shows and over the monitor I hear, "Help me! Help, Mama!" As I entered her room, she was balancing on the rail of her crib with her feet on the outside holding on to the railing under her stomach. She did it again. She was panicking and not wanting to fall while sobbing for help.
An hour later, I hear her yelling for help again on the monitor. She did it again.
Micah and I were freaking out. Not only could she fall and hurt herself, but since her nursery is attached to our master bedroom via french doors, she really could get up and walk around our room and the house. Who knows what she can get into while we are sleeping!
Saturday morning we knew we had to make a decision. We decided that we were going to remove the rail from Aubrey's crib and convert into a daybed but also move her furniture into the guest bedroom and that would be her new room. We did this all wrong and we are afraid that we are paying the price. We didn't warn Aubrey this was coming, we just did it and are hoping that she will adjust/adapt to these changes.
While Micah was moving her bed into the new bedroom, I looked at the empty nursery. I flashed back to when I was 4 months pregnant setting up this room and I teared up. My baby is really not a baby. She's a two year old. She's a BIG girl.
Aubrey's first nap in her new room/bed took place about 2 hours later than her normal nap time. Aubrey was fighting sleep. I finally got her to lay down on the bed and she was so close to falling asleep. When I said for her to go sleepy, she would burst out in massive crocodile tears and start crying. I rubbed her temples and massaged her forehead while watching her eyes roll back in her head. She was tired. I stayed with her until she was asleep and she managed to sleep for her normal 2 hour nap.
First time sleeping in her toddler bed!
When Aubrey woke up, She was calling out to Micah and he went into her room to get her. She was sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for him. It's almost like she wasn't sure if she could get out of the bed or not. We did put up a baby gate at the doorway to her new room so we can close her door slightly and she will still won't be able to get out of the room, but at least she can open the door and yell out to us. This will only work until she's tall enough to try to climb over the gate.
Getting Aubrey to go to bed used to be easy. We would tell her it's time for bed, bring her upstairs, read her a book and turn out the lights, give her hugs and kisses and I would lay her down. She would lay down on her own, say goodnight to us, that she loved us and tell us that she was a good girl. I would walk out of her room and I wouldn't hear a peep (on a perfect night) until the morning.
Now... Aubrey is refusing to go to bed. She kept asking for book after book even though she was visibly exhausted and ready for bed. We had to fight her to get her to lay down and go night- night, something we haven't had to do in a LONG time.
Poor Aubrey. Lots of change. Hopefully that she's just fighting us a lot right now because she's sick too. She's waking up anywhere from 4-8 times each night and typically she's been at the baby gate holding her blankets crying. We go into her room cover her ip and she goes right back to sleep but this waking up stuff needs to end!
I have to admit that it's kind of fun to move her room. We are in the midst of re-decorating and buying a new nightstand, book/toy shelf and new curtains etc.maybe that will help Aubrey like it more? Who knows.
What a sweet little (big) girl sleeping in her "big girl" bed.
ReplyDeleteSo cute!
I'm sorry your little one is sick. Poor thing. I hope she feels better soon.
She looks so tiny sleeping in her big girl bed. Hopefully she'll adjust soon and will be back to her regular sleeping schedule. I hope she starts feeling better soon, too. Is it a cold or teething??
Deletegood luck! i hope it gets easier. we changed our daughter fro her crib to a twin bed this summer and i spent about a week laying with her for each nap and bedtime until she fell asleep. it will get better!
ReplyDeletehope she feels better soon!
It gets better after a week or so. Try going to bed about 30 minutes earlier so you can have some time to adjust maybe throw in one extra book here and there.
ReplyDeleteI hated moving Lucas over to the toddler bed ugh it was awful!!
I'm sorry this has been rough. I don't have any advice as we haven't made this transition yet. Azalea is still in the "hasn't tried to climb out of the crib" club. I have no idea how much longer it will last.
ReplyDeleteAwww that must be tough on both of you! I dread the day of the crib to bed transition...I'm sure Aubrey will get used to it soon! :)
ReplyDeleteAwe! Such a hard thing to let go the crib.
ReplyDeleteI hope she settles into her new bed soon. Changes are always tough.
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh, her hanging on for dear life?! avrie has gotten REaLY good at climbing into chairs, i just hope she doesnt figure out that she can clib her crib!!
ReplyDeleteok on a positive note, isn't it so funny how they will sit there at the edge of the bed and wait? P will lay in her bed for an hour in the morning (she usually wakes up just after 6 like we do, but we don't get her up until 7. I tried putting her to bed later in the evenings but same result so we just let her lounge in bed...I think she prefers that actually), and then when I enter the room she immediately scrambles out of bed and runs to me. It doesn't even seem to cross her mind to leave the bed while I'm not there. so funny and so so so cute.
ReplyDeleteAnyways...yeah, the toddler bed transition. We learned early on that P does not like drastic changes...she likes things to go slow and steady. I think even spanning the nunu and the toddler bed a couple of weeks apart was a little much for her because she fights it. it's not too bad because she'll cry and we leave the room for 3-5 minutes, then come back in, tuck her in and when we leave again she goes to bed (usually), but I prefer that didn't even happen. We've started sleep training - kinda - this week again. The first time after her 3 books we put her to bed, said good night, tucked her in, and left. She cried out for milk/books/mommy/blanky/poop whatever will get us back. We stood our ground for 3 minutes then walked in, tucked her in (wiped her snots) and left again. She fell asleep. Last night we waited 6 minutes. Tonight if it happens again we'll wait 9. I think 9-10 minutes is my limit though - I can't seem to wait even 5 minutes without going back in.
Anywho, the good news is that doing this actually somehow resulted in her sleeping all night without waking up (she started randomly waking up in the middle of the night with all the transitions and crying out...as soon as i walk in the room and say it's ok she falls asleep but it was weird anyways). Now she's sleeping soundly. I'm hoping this "sleep training" will get her all adjusted before we go to FL this weekend!
i totally need to put this up on the blog but I'm waiting to see final results, just thought i'd share the process with you in case you guys are doing this too.
Good luck!