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Hold Momma Hand?

We have been battling night-time wakings with my daughter for several

months now. She'll be two in June and should be sleeping through the

night no problem -- and has done so wonderfully up until recently.

We're

really not sure what is causing her to wake up every night but it is

beyond frustrating!! Imagine that you've finally drifted off to sleep

and are woken up by someone kicking their bedroom door, continuously.

Then they talk and shout and play and bang around for another 45 mins

to 3 hours. Yah. Welcome to our world.

She will wake up anywhere

between midnight and 2am. Sometimes, she goes right back to sleep but

most of the time she doesn't so one of us has to sit up and keep her

from waking everyone else up until she falls asleep.

We started

going into her room at 11pm, changing her diaper and giving her a fresh

sippy cup of diluted juice and it seemed to be helping. She didn't

really wake up for the diaper change and slept through the rest of the

night. This past week, she slept through the night on her own w/out the

diaper change three nights in a row and we thought we were back in the

safety zone.. until tonight.

So this frustration and annoyance

has been building up for months. Months and months of being awake until

2:00, 3:00 and even 4:00am! And then after a few sweet nights of

uninterrupted sleep, she woke up tonight!

As I stomped to her

door in a foul mood, you could probably see the steam rising off my

head and coming out my nostrils with each breath. If she doesn't go back to sleep right away, I'm selling her to the Gypsies! I thought to myself. Where's that stun gun I keep meaning to order!! I'm givin' this kid back to the circus!

Then

as I reached for her doorknob, I heard from the other side of the door,

"Hold Momma hand? Where Momma go? Hold Momma hand? Hold Momma hand?"

My heart melted.

I

opened the door, swooped my baby girl up into my arms and hugged her

tight as I sat on the edge of her little bed and rocked her.