Please, no flames, I know what's wrong with this picture, I just need help.. it's really difficult!
My older DD, 27mo, goes to bed with a sippy full of milk. She has recently started asking for more and more and more cups after another. I don't know what to do. If I give her more than one, she pees everywhere, right through her diaper (she's in disposables at night - cloth simply doesn't come close to containing it). I try and fill her up at dinner. I moved her dinnertime closer to bedtime. I offer water (which she drinks during the day). She cries and bangs on her door and asks for more milk.
I just don't know what to do. I can't omit the milk from the routine.. tried that once and she went on a two week long sleep strike even when I re-introduced the milk the next night.
Am I being a horrible mother for not giving her what she wants? She turns into this fuming angry crying demanding child who wants more milk. More and more and more. I don't know where she puts it. I even tried eliminating milk from our diets but that doesn't work. If I were to not bring it into the house I'm afraid I'd be running to Walgreens at 2am. She will.not.sleep without the milk.
I'm nursing a 3mo through the night and she is very easily distracted. I need my older DD to sleep without guzzling a ton of milk, and without wetting the bed (we're talking she wets up to her neck, she's a tummy sleeper). My 3mo just won't nurse at night if my 2yo is awake.
My DH is currently sleeping on the couch because of very loud snoring issues, and the cosleeping wont work with my older DD, she will not sleep if we're in the same bed, she wants to jump and play and pull my hair and go into the crib (sidecarred) and play with the baby.
I'm sorry if this is rambling.. I just don't know what else to do.
Right now I feel fortunate, she's singing herself to sleep. That's totally rare. I told her milk was for morningtime and she toddlertalked angrily to me, told me to "go" and shut her door. So I feel guilty because she's angry with me.
My older DD, 27mo, goes to bed with a sippy full of milk. She has recently started asking for more and more and more cups after another. I don't know what to do. If I give her more than one, she pees everywhere, right through her diaper (she's in disposables at night - cloth simply doesn't come close to containing it). I try and fill her up at dinner. I moved her dinnertime closer to bedtime. I offer water (which she drinks during the day). She cries and bangs on her door and asks for more milk.
I just don't know what to do. I can't omit the milk from the routine.. tried that once and she went on a two week long sleep strike even when I re-introduced the milk the next night.
Am I being a horrible mother for not giving her what she wants? She turns into this fuming angry crying demanding child who wants more milk. More and more and more. I don't know where she puts it. I even tried eliminating milk from our diets but that doesn't work. If I were to not bring it into the house I'm afraid I'd be running to Walgreens at 2am. She will.not.sleep without the milk.
I'm nursing a 3mo through the night and she is very easily distracted. I need my older DD to sleep without guzzling a ton of milk, and without wetting the bed (we're talking she wets up to her neck, she's a tummy sleeper). My 3mo just won't nurse at night if my 2yo is awake.
My DH is currently sleeping on the couch because of very loud snoring issues, and the cosleeping wont work with my older DD, she will not sleep if we're in the same bed, she wants to jump and play and pull my hair and go into the crib (sidecarred) and play with the baby.
I'm sorry if this is rambling.. I just don't know what else to do.
Right now I feel fortunate, she's singing herself to sleep. That's totally rare. I told her milk was for morningtime and she toddlertalked angrily to me, told me to "go" and shut her door. So I feel guilty because she's angry with me.
