The Tale of Two Jammies

After talking to our Pediatricians office, they recommended that we do not stay in his room, but we calmly place in back in bed when he gets up, reassure him, and leave his room. Ok, that sounds reasonable enough (ha!). So we get ready for a tough night of resistance last night. Trying to defuse some of the clinginess, Dad puts Zack to bed. I can hear them reading books, then rocking, and finally he is put into his bed and Dad exits the room. The screams begin... however, they stop within about 3 minutes! And surprisingly they don't continue. Dad then informs me that Zack can no longer climb out of his bed since he is back in his roomy winter jammies (he has been in a much smaller, spring 2 piece jammies due to the warm weather on vacation and at home)! We also turned on the humidifier for some "white noise". I don't think we've had such a good sleep in a long time!!

We have a climber!

Hell hath no fury greater than a toddler who doesn't get his way. Our little guy has continued his insistence on having someone staying in his room with him all during the night. And I mean *all* during the night! I sit in his bedroom until he falls alseep, and then when he wakes up screaming in the middle of the night because I'm not there, I go back and sit some more. When I try to leave when he's awake, he just gets up and climbs out of crib, to find me!
This is a "sleep separation" technique and it's supposed to help, however, I just don't think it's working. Well, I know it's not working because I have spent many nights and hours just sitting around in his room waiting for sleep, and then trying to escape unnoticed - which sometimes is not so stealth-like and the whole process begins again. Yikes. We need to find a new approach because this is getting old very fast and our whole family is cranky