🦋 Bedtime
Ellen and I are starting to get serious with Sylvia about her sleeping through the night in her bedroom -- the pattern over the past few months has been, she goes to sleep in there and around 2 either comes into our room and gets in bed without waking us (in which case we wake up an hour or so later when she starts thrashing around) or wakes up screaming and won't stop until she is allowed to come in. We are all three running short on sleep and it seems like time to do something. Since Tuesday we have been borrowing an idea from my brother, the "grab bag" -- Ellen has assembled a bag of toys and games, and whenever Sylvia sleeps through the night, she will be allowed to take one of them out of the bag. She is way into this idea during her waking hours, but when she wakes up at night it doesn't really wash. Last night however she did sleep through the night (thanks in part to some decongestant we gave her for an incipient cold) and was quite pleased to be able to select a toy -- she said "I'll do it every night!" but we shall see... I have been trying to convince her for a while now that her stuffed dog (a gift from, IIRC, Dave Feldman, one of the first and perhaps only readers of this journal; thanks Dave!) will protect her from anything scary in her room at night -- again, she is totally into it during the day time and at bedtime, but loses her conviction when she wakes up at night.
posted morning of Friday, March 5th, 2004
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