Klara seems to have taken exception to the criticism of her sleeping habits and decided to stop sleeping altogether. Or she’s probably having a reaction to her shots. Or maybe she’s not ecstatic about my trying to graduate her from her cot to her crib. She has a sleeper, a cot, a crib and a bed (what can I say, I get a lot of gifts), and the time has come to go from a cot to a larger crib.
The end result is that I’m very loopy today.
This is kids, though, basically. As soon as you think you have them figured out, bam, they change the rules.
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Exactly. As soon as I find THE METHOD to solve an issue, it stops working and I need a new method.
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With cribs and beds, it’s often best to allow the child to tell you when the child is ready to make the change. They do that by climbing out of the crib. If they don’t they’re comfortable where they are, and you really don’t want to disrupt that. There’s no fixed schedule as to when they have to make the change. To a large extent, the same is true of toilet training. When they learn that bigger kids don’t wear diapers and get to do things that diaper-wearers can’t, they’ll make the change pretty much on their own with little muss or fuss.
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I can see she’s getting uncomfortable in the cot. She can’t stretch her legs in it and it’s getting too short for her. But it’s also more womb – like because of that, and she enjoys it.
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My oldest moved from cradle to crib at two months, because he physically didn’t fit in the cradle any more (he was a very long baby), but he didn’t like the crib at first, and it took a while for him to get used to the idea. He was never a long sleeper, in any case, and barely slept more than 4 hours at a time until he was at least 4. He is in his 20s, and he still prefers shorter sleeps more often over a long night’s rest. His father does too. They are both AS – not sure if that has anything to do with it.
My youngest stayed in the cradle until he showed signs of needing more room – probably at about 4 months. He slept through the night before he was 2 months old, and now at 19 would sleep for 12 hours or more if given the opportunity.
Having two children who were completely different from each other, and having been a nanny to two others, I realized a long time ago that there is no set schedule to when they need to meet specific milestones (of course, if a child is months or years behind her peers, this would indicate a problem). As long as there is steady progress, I would let her take things at her own pace.
I would suggest trying for a few more nights in the crib. If she continues to have trouble sleeping in the crib, perhaps she isn’t ready yet. Maybe go back to the cot, and try the crib again in a week or so.
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