Courtney’s historically been a good sleeper. We put her down in her crib, she rolls around for a while and falls asleep. We’ve been very consistent with the bedtime routine – bath, books, some snuggling and down to bed. Paul’s done the bath gig from day 1 and he’s a rock star at it. But something has happened over the past week, I don’t know what it is but my beautiful child is possessed by the devil.
Paul does the bath, books and snuggling and he puts her down for the night. And then she SCREAMS. Bloody murder. BLOODY MURDER. She throws her pacifiers on the floor, her stuffed animals across the room, stands up and SCREAMS. Part of our problem is that she can’t sleep without the pacifiers. She has one in her mouth and one in each hand. But, she has all that when we put her down so we have to go in at some point and give it back. But this is totally out of hand. She screams for a while, we go in there and give her all her things back, she screams more, we go back after a while and then eventually I go in and hold her for a while. She immediately throws her arms around me and pats my back, as though I’m the one who’s been screaming my head off for an hour or so.
I don’t know what to do though. She’s SCREAMING. I’m almost certain that if we don’t go in there to give her her things back, she’s not going to stop screaming. Ever. What do I do? What’s going on? What’s with the screaming? We’ve changed nothing about the routine. She’s going down around 8, maybe 20 minutes later than she was at one point but still not late. We’re at a loss. Someone help me.
I don’t have anything to suggest because Rylie never did this (she’d never take a pacifier) but I’m just sorry you’re going through this. Rylie will scream at night occasionally but as long as I know she’s fed, sleepy and not hurting…I figure there’s nothing I can do. Rylie went through a period like this for awhile when I took her last bottle away. She’d used it like a paci, but she jsst had to get through it, and we had to listen to it. So sorry hon!