Night #2 – Success!
pamelamyers | July 5, 2012
Sam’s second night in her bed was a resounding success! Last night after her bath, while Mark and I were getting her pajamas on, she announced, “I think I need to go to bed. I very tired.” Now, this statement was pretty unusual for her since it was only 6:45 p.m. and I fight her never ending “I’m not sleepy!” tirade almost every day at 7:30. I took her in my room to watch a little TV because, as much as I would have loved her to conk out early, before 7:00 is a bit much. We watched some Sesame Street and then she marched off to her room. She asked me to read to her in the chair and after only one book, she told me, again, “I need to go to bed” so I let her climb in. I put the bed rail down so I could sit or lie with her and she was adamant that I put it up again. She definitely knows what it is for and was NOT falling out of bed again! I explained that I would put it up after she was asleep. So, I climbed onto her bed (under the covers, per her orders) and read her one more book. After that, I told her to close her eyes and within 5 minutes she was sound asleep — at 7:25. I put the bed rail back up, piled some of her biggest, fluffiest stuffed animals next to it as a further buffer, then I left. I checked on her a bunch of times before going to bed myself and she was all slugged out, comfy as could be. I woke up so many times last night, I think because subconsciously I was waiting for her to wake up, but she never did! I didn’t hear her calling me until a few minutes before 7:00 a.m.! I can’t believe she slept so long and so soundly. So maybe getting her a new bed is the ticket to us all getting some sleep. I hope so…if last night was a fluke, I don’t know what we are going to do!
