Looking for advice! Toddlers sleep is a mess since baby sister came home from hospital last week
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Oh I’m sorry🥺 I imagine how tired you are. Is your toddler still taking nap??
@Swetha im so sorry you’re going through this too! It’s soooo rough! My toddler does pretty good during the day and just loves her sister so much! I tried so hard to prepare her and we try to give her lots of attention, switch off with our newborn so we each give her attention, and I try not to blame things on our baby to minimize jealously but at night it’s like all bets are off and it’s just a mess no matter what we do 😩
@Lucia Gc It’s definitely been a challenge! We dropped her nap a while ago because she wouldn’t want to nap when we tried and then would end up napping around 4 pm. Then she would go to bed super late. So unless she falls asleep in the car or is obviously needing a nap earlier in the day we don’t do one anymore (I know that was a long winded answer 😅)
@Alexandra - I totally hear you. Wishing you lots of peace your way. Ours luckily won’t come to our room but the entire drama around bedtime takes 1.5-2hrs and I am not happy with pushing the sleep time till 9-10pm. She bonds with her brother too and we haven’t seen any jealousy yet (luckily) but she just asks mama for every little things. We also do not blame the baby instead tell her - can u give me few mins? But she is too smart. She puts me on spot and replies back saying, so mama can feed baby milk? I have to say yes or ignore that question instead of lying. I have noticed she has more meltdowns (luckily never tantrums) but just crying for everything instead of talking since we came back.
We haven't brought home a baby yet but we moved our toddler into a big boy room with a twin bed a few months ago to prepare, and it took about two months before he finally started sleeping well again. We were doing a lot of extra support like laying down with him and staying with him a long time but gradually cut it back. We have let him get in our bed but that usually leads to talking and playing, not going to sleep. We tried a baby gate on the door to send the message that he needs to stay in his room although we get up and check on him. Most recently we got a Time to Rise clock to explain when it's time to get up and when it's time to sleep... All this actually seemed to help and we are getting back to normal. Last night he woke up around 2pm but got right back in bed and all I did is sit next to the bed and pat him for 5 minutes, then left. Not sure what will happen when we bring his twin brothers home in a month or two though! 🤪
Omg, exactly going through this with our 3-week old newborn and almost 3 yr old daughter. She is having meltdown for everything since we came back from hospital. Refuses naps. She is usually playing and too loud around the house which keeps my lil one awake most of the daytime. When I just want to call it a night, bedtime is a huge deal. Having two weeks of Christmas break isn’t helping either.