Fast forward to nap time. 11:45, post lunch, baby girl is tired. She wants her blanket and she wants to rest. Upstairs we go. Coax her into the big girl bed, pull the blanket over her, put up the baby gate in her doorway. She lies still for about 3 minutes, then gets out of bed and starts exploring. Doesn't cry, doesn't call for us by name, just checks out every nook and cranny of her room. For 2 hours. Forgets she's tired. Her room looks like the FBI went through it.
First time she hadn't napped since birth.The crib is back together in its rightful corner of the room. We'll try again in a month or so.
You probably gave up too quickly - there will likely be a week or so of getting out of bed all the time before she'll actually stay in it.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to try having the bed up in her room for a week while her crib is still there - Greta may make the choice herself once she has a chance to get used to the 'big girl bed'.
I actually had Ryan create a Google Account for me so I could throw in my two cent on this one.
ReplyDeleteBut first a little story. This morning Carah went to find her favorite little brown shoes. We call them her Sunny Patch shoes, named after a cartoon, because they have a little butterfly on the side. The first day I tried to put them on her she had a big hissy fit about wearing her new brown shoes, until I pointed out the butterfly and told her that these were her Sunny Patch shoes. She said 'oh' and happily put them on, every day for the next seven months.
Until of course this morning when I informed her that her little brown shoes had gone bye-bye, and that we should say 'thank you and good-bye brown shoes, hello new pink shoes!'. She did and seems to like the pink ones so far.
Like Sara said, you just need to give it a week. I'm a little meaner though, I would take the crib away.