9 posts tagged “sleep”

No whine here this morning.  Out of the blue wonderful night with Moonpie.  In bed at 9.  Woke at 1am, and I needed to nurse him anyway.  Slept until 6:30.  I swear.  That is the kind of night I can live with.  Reinforces to me that when he doesn't sleep, there's something wrong.  Sick, teeth, something. 

Anyway, wonderful!

Thanks for all the nice comments!

He did it again last night.  Woke up at midnight and 4:30.  It wasn't all night long, but that is such an improvement over where we were last week.  This is great.  Fingers crossed!

Out of nowhere Moonpie slept through the entire night last night.  Not a peep.  I was actually worried that he was dead a couple of times because it's just not like him.  I AM NOT COMPLAINING!  It was weird though.  And I have no explanation.  And I pray the gods that he'll doing it again tonight.  Still got up twice though.  Once to answer to Monkey who was calling out.  Another time to go in and sleep feed Moonpie since my boobs are used to feeding him all night and it felt like I was going to explode. 

Great news! 

Milestone?!  Let's hope so.

I am so tired.  The baby won't sleep.  His second tooth came though yesterday.  He wants to sleep in my bed with me all the time.  I am so tired.  He is so tired.  The mister isn't any help.  It's 2 in the afternoon and moonpie has been crying for over an hour now.  I go in there and try and calm him down.  He's hysterical.  He's exhausted.  I am so exhausted and ready to cry along with him.  Apparently I don't get to take a nap either.  And I don't get to sleep at night.  I went to work almost all day yesterday and had two pretty intensive student projects I had to deal with.  That wiped me out.  And then I was on my own taking care of both kids last night while the mister was out.  It's going to run me down again and I'm going to get sick.  I know it. 

No end in sight.

I don't really understand what happened last night.  I talked with the pharmacist at walgreens and he said that I could take sudafed and non-drowsy claratin for my sinuses and that if any of it did get in my milk, it wouldn't hurt moonpie.  So last night I took both of those and because I had a fever too I took two tylenol.  I got in bed at about 8:30.  Rolled around for a couple of hours.  Fed Moonpie at 9:30.  Back to bed, rolling around.  Mister brought Moonpie in my bed for me to nurse him at 1:30 and then put him back in his crib.  That was the last I heard from him until I woke up at 6:30 this morning all confused about where the night went.  Very confused.  Was it the drugs?  Is it the crib? 

I checked in on him and he had turned onto his tummy and was sound asleep at 6:30 a.m.  So weird.

And now he's taking a morning nap in his crib and has been asleep for about an hour and 15 minutes or so.

What is going on?

My baby doesn't sleep this well!

Have we turned a corner? 

Am I jinxing everything by writing about it? 

So confused! 

Battling with Moonpie.  Trying to get him to sleep without the boob.  It's way out of control.  It's also all my fault because I have enabled him.  I think I nursed him 6 times last night in my bed.  I lost count.  All night I was flipping back and forth.  Not good.  I am not good and not really a fan of letting them cry it out.  It wears on me.  And it's really hard for me to do it at night when I am exhausted myself.  So, today I've been trying to get him to fall asleep and I've been letting him cry for 10 minutes at a time before I go in and try and soothe him.  It hasn't been easy.  Many times while he was screaming, I wanted to cry as well.  I had to call my mom for support.  He is really determined.  And so tired out. 

Today:

9:59 am asleep
10:22 am awake
eat a little (not much) play, play, play
he's tired now.

scream, scream, scream

12:15 pm asleep
12:34 pm awake

scream, scream, scream

1:34 pm asleep? no. but quiet.
1:49 pm awake but quiet still
2:02 pm asleep with his fingers in his mouth
2:35 pm awake

eat

2:55 pm asleep on the boob
2:57 pm asleep in his bed

it is now 3:50 and he is still asleep.
longest nap he's had all day.
of course we have to be at preschool at 4:30 for open house. 
of course

It's Friday night, 8:53.  All three of my boys are now asleep (big, medium, and small).  Moonpie was a complete MESS tonight--crying so hard I thought he was in pain at times.  Just a complete wreck.  He took 4 different very short naps today, but nothing longer than an hour.  Just kept waking up.  He was just way overtired.  I finally told the mister that he had to try to get him to sleep because I was losing my mind with this little dude screaming at me and twisting in my arms.  So he went in there.  The crying went on and on.  Eventually, maybe 20 minutes later, it stopped.  I kept waiting for the mister to emerge.  He never did.  Now I can hear him in there snoring. 

So it's just me up tonight. 

Too late to call M on the east coast in NYC.  Shucks. 

I am tired though.  I guess I'll read a bit and then go to sleep myself.  It won't be hard.  Moonpie will wake up again in a couple of hours and I'll feed him.  I should stay up a bit and then feed him right before I go to bed.  Maybe that'll buy me a little more sleep.

It's just funny how my Friday nights are just the same as all the other nights of the week.  Nothing exciting.  Nothing to get up for and do.  The same.

For the past four or five nights the monkey has gone to bed really easily and has been sleeping through the night.  (I hope I'm not jinxing us.)  The mister started something with the monkey that is just so sweet and I think that it's the reason for the calmness at bedtime.  Every night now we're sitting on the couch in the near darkness with the windows open listening to the various evening noises.  Crickets, dogs barking, fire trucks, planes, the wind through the palm trees out back.  And the monkey just calms down and listens and talks and hugs.  It is so sweet.  After about 15 minutes we say, Okay, time for night night.  And he says, Yea, okay.  And then he either walks with us or gets picked up and put in his crib in his room.  And that's it.  Totally calm, totally sweet.  I could just eat him.  And I credit the mister with this new sweet ritual.  Nice job, Da Da.

Not so good.  The mister has been sick and weird since before we went to NYC in August.  Monkey has been fighting snot and ear infections for the last two weeks.  I finally got their sicknesses a week ago.  Now, we're all supposed to be on the mend.  Monkey finished his antibiotics this morning so I took him to the dr to make sure that the infections were cleared up.  You see, I have reason to believe that the antibiotics didn't work. 

Saturday and Sunday nights were horrible in our house.  Monkey was waking up every fifteen minutes screaming.  Just standing up in his bed crying and screaming.  He didn't seem sick or feverish.  He seemed needy but it was unclear why.  And not needy in his usual way.  Usually when he wakes in the night, if I'm the one to get up then I just rock him in the rocking chair in his room for literally 1 or 2 minutes and then put him back in his crib.  These last 2 nights, he didn't even want or need that.  I'd go in there and say, What are you crying about?  It's time for night, night.  Go to sleep.  And he'd lay right back down, stick his thumb in his mouth, and appear to go back to sleep.  This has never been the case before.  I have never before been able to say to him, go back to sleep, and have him do it.  So that was weird.  Especially since he'd wake right back up 15 minutes later and do the same thing all over again.  This means that it wasn't that he wanted me to hold him like usual, he just wanted to know that I would come?  Or was it his ears still bothering him?  Or is he just not feeling good?  Unclear.  At the same time, the mister has been getting up and sleeping with him in the guest room.  When I think that monkey is sleeping well, it's because he's in bed with his dad, kicking and punching him for a couple of hours before dad gets fed up and puts him back in his crib.  Then I get back into the game.  Cycle. 

It is now 8:53.  The mister went to bed at 8, the monkey went to bed at 8:15--after the mister, yes.  It's rough around here these days.  Save yourself, stay away, get some sleep.

P.S.  Update: Turns out that his ears are all cleared up.  But he had a fever Monday afternoon and all evening Monday.  It's Tuesday now and he's home from daycare today (and I'm home from work) and we're going to start another round of antibiotics for his new sinus infection.  But he's acting really happy and vibrant and having a good time.  Thanks for the good vibes!