http://www.growninmyheart.com/one-year-later An Adoption Network Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.growninmyheart.com/one-year-later#comment-5910 Susan W (Luci's momma) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:31:01 +0000 http://www.growninmyheart.com/?p=6732#comment-5910 My daughter did not sleep through the night until she was home for 3 1/2 years. It was awful! We brought her home when she was almost 10 months old. Still attachment issues to deal with, I cannot leave her for anything longer than buying groceries. My DH is overseas now, his tour started last November and he has about 40 more days until he's home for good. If he knew how awful it was on our daughter, he would not ever have left on this tour (like he had a choice). We also have two older bio boys (now 17 and 13) and we homeschool so most days I am exhausted. It was only in the past 6 months that DD started sleeping through the night, and that has helped with my exhaustion but not with her clinginess. I'm sorry I don't have a happily ever after sleep story to give you. I slept on the couch for a long time with DD and we finally got her a "big girl bed" that is a double sized--the plan being that she go to sleep with me there and then I sneak out to go get in our bed. But that just means when (not if) she wakes up she roams the house, screaming in terror, looking for me. It is just awful. And it's not like we are miles apart, either. Even with lights left on, she can't find our room. So now while DH is overseas, she is in our bed, and I have a toddler bed in our room for her to sleep in when Daddy gets home (she assures me she will). I need to start her in that ASAP, since we are in the last month-and-a-half of this trip. ~susan My daughter did not sleep through the night until she was home for 3 1/2 years. It was awful! We brought her home when she was almost 10 months old. Still attachment issues to deal with, I cannot leave her for anything longer than buying groceries. My DH is overseas now, his tour started last November and he has about 40 more days until he’s home for good. If he knew how awful it was on our daughter, he would not ever have left on this tour (like he had a choice). We also have two older bio boys (now 17 and 13) and we homeschool so most days I am exhausted. It was only in the past 6 months that DD started sleeping through the night, and that has helped with my exhaustion but not with her clinginess. I’m sorry I don’t have a happily ever after sleep story to give you. I slept on the couch for a long time with DD and we finally got her a “big girl bed” that is a double sized–the plan being that she go to sleep with me there and then I sneak out to go get in our bed. But that just means when (not if) she wakes up she roams the house, screaming in terror, looking for me. It is just awful. And it’s not like we are miles apart, either. Even with lights left on, she can’t find our room. So now while DH is overseas, she is in our bed, and I have a toddler bed in our room for her to sleep in when Daddy gets home (she assures me she will). I need to start her in that ASAP, since we are in the last month-and-a-half of this trip. ~susan

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