Monday, January 29, 2007
Our Frustration
Hey all! I'm just blogging this morning to get some advise if you're able to give it. Here's our frustration. For the last month, Ezekiel has been getting up during the night and coming in our room. And when I say, "get up", I mean getting up 5-10 (or more sometimes) times a night. Meaning, Nathan and I are really not getting any sleep. For instance, he came in at 11:30, 1:00, 3:00 (six times between 3:00 and 4:30) and then "woke up" at 7:30. Amelia, however, is sleeping through the night. It all started when Zeke was tormented in his sleep, by what he described as man is a blue coat and a hat that came in through is window and spoke to him saying, "get up and go to mommy and daddy". And for several reasons, we feel like that was an attack from Satan on our family. One afternoon Nathan was praying with Zeke during naptime and Zeke pointed and told Daddy the man was in the doorway. Of course, Nathan saw nothing but began praying. Nathan said he felt a strong evil presense. Without going into too much more detail, Nathan gets very little sleep due to his hours with UPS and the church, and the less sleep he gets the harder it is to operate Watershed. We felt like Satan was "sending" this man to wake Ezekiel so that Nathan doesn't get much sleep. All this to say, the nightmares have stopped (praise God!!! and thanks to all who knew and prayed for our family). Ezekiel hasn't mentioned the man in a couple weeks, however I feel like the man coming to him at night began a habit of him waking a lot throughout the night. And although he doesn't have nightmares, he still wakes often. So basically, we are at our witts end and were wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how to get Zeke to sleep through the night again. Any suggestions would be helpful.
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Wow. I know how scary that kind of stuff can be. I don't have any advice accept for keep praying & keep doing what you're doing! Satan wouldn't be after you so hard if you weren't doing something ritght! I'm praying for you guys!!
Heather B. (Justin's Heather)
Simple prayer. I don't know what else to offer. We will begin praying daily. We love you!!
I don't know what to tell you besides try to be patient. We've had the same problem with our 2 year old for the last few months. Waking up a lot. Does he act tired when he comes in, or does he act wide awake? Ours usually acts awake even after other a couple hours sleep. The only thing that we've tried to do is ware he out during and make sure she doesn't take a very long nap. Hope this helps.
We have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we just walked her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Every now and then she will come in, usually around 5am, and want to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with you little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting acn be hard with limited sleep.
We have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we just walked her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Every now and then she will come in, usually around 5am, and want to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with you little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting acn be hard with limited sleep.
We have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we just walked her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Some nights she would throw big fits and other nights she would just crawl back into her bed. By the 5th time, I am sure she was just exhausted from all the getting up.
Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Just this week, she's been getting up, usually once and its always around 5am, and want to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with you little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting can be hard with limited sleep.
We have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we just walked her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Some nights she would throw big fits and other nights she would just crawl back into her bed. By the 5th time, I am sure she was just exhausted from all the getting up.
Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Just this week, she's been getting up, usually once and its always around 5am, and want to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with you little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting can be hard with limited sleep.
We have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we just walked her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Some nights she would throw big fits and other nights she would just crawl back into her bed. By the 5th time, I am sure she was just exhausted from all the getting up.
Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Just this week, she's been getting up, usually once and its always around 5am, and want to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with you little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting can be hard with limited sleep.
In the past, we have had lots of trouble with Caislyn, our 3 year old. She is doing better now...after lots and lots of work on our part...If she got up, we would just walk her back...we kept it quiet, didn't really talk to her...sometimes we'd do this 3-5 times a night. Sometimes, we'd have to just say, now its sleepy time, but in your bed, not mommy and daddy's bed. Some nights she would throw big fits and other nights she would just crawl back into her bed. By the 5th time, I am sure she was just exhausted from all the getting up.
Eventually, after a good long month, she settled down and didn't do it anymore. Just this week, she's been getting up, usually once and its always around 5am, and wants to cuddle. I usually give a brief hug and walk her back.
That's all I can say...maybe it will work with your little guy. I know how tiring this can be...parenting can be hard with limited sleep.
I am so sorry for the multiple of entries....I didn't think it was posting the other night, so I saved it in WORD...and actually went through and added more info to it tonight...once I posted I noticed there were already 5 posts from me! SO SORRY YOU GUYS!!
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