Our final solution for the head hitting

I would like to say the magic potion that Dr. Krohn gave us for head hitting worked like a charm, but I accidentally poured it down the drain, and his teeth kept hurting, and he kept hitting his head until we reached a low point. I was tired and miserable, Calvin was just following me around and hitting his mouth and Quinn and I were bickering about it all the time.

Then a few days ago, at three in the afternoon, I tried to get Calvin to take a nap in his crib. He was obviously exhausted. I held him in my lap on the rocking chair, hoping he would doze off, but instead he flailed his arms like a crazy boy and so I put him in the crib and went downstairs to get a glass of water.

When I came back, I walked into the room and my heart nearly stopped. His face was bloody and he had blood all over the pillow that I wrapped the crib in. He made his lip bleed. I picked him up and brought him into the guest room and breat fed him laying down, and he fell asleep in a few seconds. I checked to make sure he didn't do anything bad to his teeth, but it looked like he just cut his lip.

He slept for almost two hours on the futon. But I was stressed out for the rest of the day. I took the pillow off the crib and washed it. This was not going to work. It was obvious that he just hates the crib and he's getting overly tired.

We started out co-sleeping with him when he was young and we've always struggled to get him to sleep in the crib. When we got our new place we thought that it would be a good time to get him to sleep there because he is in a separate room and so he can't see us, so will go to sleep. It has worked on and off, but in general, he hates it. The point of the crib is to get kids to sleep without hurting themselves, but so far Calvin's most serious injuries have come from the crib.

So when Quinn came home we put the futon mattress on the floor of the bedroom, and Calvin has been sleeping there. He doesn't hit his head as much, and he never does it at bedtime. He's catching up on sleep and is noticeably happier. If he falls out of bed, it doesn't matter because it's only a couple of inches off the floor.

I can't tell you how happy I am that we found a solution to this problem. He just wasn't happy and was hitting his head to let us know.