So apparently Liam can now not only sit up on his own when you place him in a sitting position, but he can sit up from a horizontal position as well. I say apparently because he decided that he would master this skill between 1:30 and 3:30 am last night and we didn’t actually see the process, only the end result. The first time Matt went in his room after he woke us up with his screaming he found him sitting up in the middle of the bed. This was strange to Matt since Liam had never done this before–but he just rocked him until he calmed down and put him back in bed. The crying went on and on and when I finally decided, at around 3:30 that I couldn’t take the crying or the back and forth anymore I went in to get him and bring him to our bed in a last ditch effort to sleep at all. When I opened the door he was sitting up at the end of the crib. He looked up at me and grinned, and then began crying again. When I brought him into our bed I basically had to sleep with my hand on his chest to keep him from sitting up again. I fear that crawling is right around the corner…
Well, goodness, child. Sounds like he’s sleep sitting. I knew that Ambien would cause problems
Do you think he doesn’t know how to lie back down so he can go back to sleep?
I think he definitely doesn’t know how to lie down so he can go back to sleep. I’ve still not seen him do it on his own–but he’s already woken up once since I put him down at 7 sitting up and he was sitting when I went to get him from his nap this afternoon as well…fingers crossed that he sleeps deeply enough tonight that he doesn’t try to sit up again until a reasonable waking time. Either that or we’re going to have to go with Matt’s plan of sitting him up and then gently pushing him over repeatedly until he figures out how to do it on his own. Egads.