Raising Nyla

  I actually can't believe i am typing this, but my big girl has gone into her own bedroom this month!  From bed sharing, to sleeping sidecar, and now into her own room: it can be done. I didn't think it possible, and people who knew we co-slept told me it would never happen. But it has!  What made us make the move? Now this is the confusing part. I LOVE cosleeping! However, i really did feel like it was time. She was sleeping through in her sidecar bed since 10 months old (so a whole 10 months) only waking if she needed the toilet (which sometimes had her up hours). She was no longer climbing into my bed in the middle of the night, so she was used to her space now.  On top of that, i felt that we were just disturbing each other too much. She would move around so much in her sleep, all over the bed, and it would wake me up. Similarly if i woke up to go to the toilet, or sometimes just rolling over in bed, she would stir too. I found that i wasn't actually getting muc...

  Oh what a fun stage of growing we have reached ... boundary testing.  Nyla has had tantrums since before she turned one, but these new ones, are something else.  She can be fine happy one minute and then the next shes on the floor kicking and screaming completely out the blue.  Also with this, she has discovered a way to ensure she almost always gets her own way ... by wetting herself on purpose.  Tantrums tantrums tantrums This is probably the part of this stage that i usually don't let get me as wound up as the rest. If she has a tantrum, i can lay her down so he can't hurt herself, and walk away until she is finished.  However, her tantrums have become much more violent than before. She will bang her head on purpose on the floor, wall, tv cabinet, whatever is close by. She knows that if i see she has hurt herself i run to her, so when i see her doing it on purpose, i make a point of not doing that. Instead i just stay close by and silent, and she ...