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Change of night-time routine
« on: January 30, 2012, 02:49:33 PM »
Hi all

Any advice would be great on below:

My OH is expecting our first child in July so started planning for arrival. Indie(16month old cocker) has always slept in our room in her basket. Obviously this is unpractical with a newborn so we've moved her to the landing and started closing our door. Unfortunately every night she has been waking up throughout the night scratching our door to come in (about 3 or 4 times a night). At first I was getting up putting her back in her basket and reassuring her. This lasts a couple of hours then scratching starts again. Also tried ignoring her but the scratching and moaning gets louder and louder. This has been ongoing for 2 weeks now!!!

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Chris



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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 04:38:26 PM »
We've had to change our cocker's night-time habits several times since we brought her home. Though she didn't originally sleep in our room, at one point she did for several weeks, and moving her after that required considerable patience!

If Indie is finding hard to adjust to being outside your room, and thereby trying her best to pester you into letting her back in the room  ;), you might try leaving your door open for her at first. That way she can get used to being outside the room, but still able to smell/hear you. We did this with ours, and just made sure to leave her lead on but tied to something. We made sure she had plenty of room to move around at night in order to get comfortable, but still tight enough that she couldn't just wander back into our room.

See if that makes any difference to Indie. After a couple of nights (or weeks) or this you could then start to close the door, and/or move her farther away from your room.

Remember that cockers are incredibly intelligent and stubborn little things! And even though she's no longer a pup, when it comes to moving their sleeping arrangements sometimes you have to go back to basics (especially if you're trying to permanently change them)!

On the bright side, our littl'un has gotten so used to being moved around that now she doesn't give a monkeys where she sleeps!  :005:

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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 04:50:29 PM »
Might be worth using a baby gate to begin with so she can still see/smell you without being able to get to you and then once she's used to sleeping in the hall then start pushing the door to.
Lisa & Maggie x

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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 05:23:27 PM »
Thanks for the suggestions guys I really appreciate it :D

She is a very stubborn so and so >:D

Guess it will come down to a battle of wills!! >:(



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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 10:10:15 AM »
Might be worth using a baby gate to begin with so she can still see/smell you without being able to get to you and then once she's used to sleeping in the hall then start pushing the door to.

Tried the baby gate last night. She woke us up about 3 times jumping up at the gate!!! >:D Each time I told her to go back to her bed which she did. Going to persevere with it. Just hoping she will settle into the a new routine shortly as making me pretty moody with all this broken sleep. ph34r Then again I suppose it's good practice for when the new born arrives ;)



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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 10:21:38 AM »
Might be worth using a baby gate to begin with so she can still see/smell you without being able to get to you and then once she's used to sleeping in the hall then start pushing the door to.

Tried the baby gate last night. She woke us up about 3 times jumping up at the gate!!! >:D Each time I told her to go back to her bed which she did. Going to persevere with it. Just hoping she will settle into the a new routine shortly as making me pretty moody with all this broken sleep. ph34r Then again I suppose it's good practice for when the new born arrives ;)

It will take her a while to get used to it, but she will do, just persevere and be consistent with her.  Its hard I know when they are waking you up every night, but will be worth it to do it now and get her to how you want her to be when baby arrives  ;) Congratulations  by the way  :luv:
Lisa & Maggie x

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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2012, 09:31:23 AM »
Might be worth using a baby gate to begin with so she can still see/smell you without being able to get to you and then once she's used to sleeping in the hall then start pushing the door to.

Tried the baby gate last night. She woke us up about 3 times jumping up at the gate!!! >:D Each time I told her to go back to her bed which she did. Going to persevere with it. Just hoping she will settle into the a new routine shortly as making me pretty moody with all this broken sleep. ph34r Then again I suppose it's good practice for when the new born arrives ;)

It will take her a while to get used to it, but she will do, just persevere and be consistent with her.  Its hard I know when they are waking you up every night, but will be worth it to do it now and get her to how you want her to be when baby arrives  ;) Congratulations  by the way  :luv:
Perseverance has paid off :cool4:. Baby gate has worked wonders (Thanks Maggie). Indie has now slept right through for the last 2 weeks nights and seems much more settled.  :clapping:



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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2012, 10:46:34 AM »
Thats brilliant - really pleased to hear it. I'd leave it like that for a little while now before slowly trying to push the door on her if thats what you still want to do.
Lisa & Maggie x

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Re: Change of night-time routine
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2012, 10:53:35 AM »
Thats brilliant - really pleased to hear it. I'd leave it like that for a little while now before slowly trying to push the door on her if thats what you still want to do.

Will do, prob just leave baby gate there to be honest :shades:



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