who gets a night nurse? And who pays a sitter $15 an hour?
Holy smokes!!!!!
My daughter is disabled and we do not qualify for a night nurse nor do we qualify for a $15 sitter.
I think those are some highly unrealistic, unreasonable and plainly...ridiculous things to request when you say you are broke and need to move in with your mother....
my daughter has epilepsy and autism and is 2 yrs old. She has stopped breathing at night. She DOES NOT sleep with us. She is put lovingly into bed. She is read a bedtime story, we say our prayers (well...I say them...she isn't very verbal) then she is put to bed, her singing seahorse is pushed, her covers are pulled up, her star nightlight is pushed and I give her a kiss on the head and tell her I love her. I don't linger, I don't tell her it is going to be OK and that she is alright and mommy is here...she knows all that. She is in bed. It is bedtime and it is time to sleep.
I am with KML...it is your over reassurances that clue her in that something is not right...
My oldest hated bedtime...it took 3 nights of crying with me doing the ferber method (I think it is called) for him to break the bad habit of wanting me next to him to sleep. IT was hard, and it broke my heart. However, he is 14 now and doesn't need therapy and isn't mal-adjusted because I let him cry 3 nights when he was 2.
