Zaylee is feeling much better. Thomas was starting to get better, but then his rash started up again this evening. I'll have to watch him closely to make sure I change his diaper as soon as he poops every time. I'm pretty much better, except that my voice is going. It's only a mild voice loss, and should improve soon. Right now the worst off is Jeff. He was the first to get sick, last Sunday, and has been feeling bad all week. Today he's been worse than before, though. He had to go to class and lab today, and I think that weakened him quite a bit. He's had a fever for a couple days, and feels cold and tired and achy all the time. He's been feeling dizzy if he stands too long, and has hardly eaten anything all day. This evening he even threw up after eating a plain flour tortilla. Poor guy. I'm not sure if he'll choose to go to class tomorrow or stay home and get some rest. I think he should stay home, but being so close to the end of the semester, he may feel like he needs to be in class. We'll see.
I'm getting frustrated with trying to get the kids to go to bed. Bedtime is 8:00, but it's so bright still that I think that makes it hard for them to sleep well. Zaylee will lay in bed and talk to herself for over an hour. And Thomas is not wanting to go to sleep on his own, whether for bedtime or nap time. I try to put him down when he's awake but drowsy. He immediately stands up holding onto the bars of the crib and starts screaming for me. Sometimes he will fall asleep after only a little bit of crying, but that's during the day and Zaylee isn't there for him to keep awake. At bedtime, he'll cry and cry until I come and hold him and put him to sleep. He keeps Zaylee awake and she in turn keeps him awake. At night when he wakes up (which he still does two or three times a night, though I don't feed him every time), Zaylee has started waking up if I let him cry for very long. She used to be able to sleep through him, but is getting to be more of a light sleeper, unfortunately. So crying it out is less and less of an option. And more and more I find myself giving in, nursing him, and putting him down already asleep. I really don't think he needs to eat so much at night, but I just can't figure out how to get him to sleep well if I don't feed him. I really wish we had another bedroom we could put him in, so he wouldn't wake up Zaylee and I could let him learn to put himself to sleep. I can't even put him out in the living room. In our little apartment, he just wouldn't fit. I really just want to be able to put the kids down at 8:00, have them both fall asleep within fifteen minutes, and then sleep all night. But I suppose that's just too much to ask.
Sorry to vent, I feel better already just having written that. Well, a little better anyway.
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If you find something that works let me know! I am really dreading the 2 kids in 1 room and our room is so small that we can't fit any kind of bassinet or anything in there. They'll be together from the very beginning. Ugh. I think there are so many transitions during infancy that once we figure something out it changes. We just need to remember that it won't last forever.
Ummm, I tend to think that the vision of putting them both down at 8pm is a little unrealistic. We started Kellen on a bed-time routine when he was Zaylee's age and, by the time he was about 4, he could be put to bed at 8pm with no problems and no getting up again during the night. It takes time to build habits like that. We have been dealing with complications with Madison for the last 6 months (with a bedroom for each child, your problem of them waking each other wasn't really an issue) and are only just now getting something down. We put Kellen to bed at 8pm, and then we let Maddi wind down for another hour and put her to bed at 9pm. And she is only just now taking herself back to bed in the middle of the night, but only because I refuse to let her in our bed or to get up.
If it's the light that is keeping them up, which is certainly a possibility since that happens to my kids in the summer when the sun sets at like 10:00, that is fixable. Take a black trash bag, open it up on the side so it is one flat piece. Take some liquid soap and mix it with a little water. Lightly coat the window with this, then place the trashbag on the window. Use something flat, Id card or debit card works great, and smooth out the trashbag, this seals is to the window. Cut the trashbag to the edges of the glass. This is totally removable, and doesn't affect the window in anyway, exept for making the room darker. You don't even have to do the whole window, just enough to darken the room a little. I know you can't do a lot with curtains, but this might help. Good luck, it's tough when they resist bedtime, parents need that break! And I hope Jeff feels better soon, make sure he drinks lots of fluids, dehydration will make him sicker and make it harder for him to keep food down.
Zaylee has been on a bedtime routine since she was younger than Thomas, and it's worked great until recently. I think I should just put her down by herself and let her fall asleep, then put Thomas down once she's asleep. I do that sometimes and it works better than putting them down at the same time.
You need to get some blackout fabric and make shades for the windows. If it really is the liht keeping them awake, that should really help.
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