The sun is out for the first time this week, and it's not raining for five minutes. Which should be great and I should be out making the most of it. But I am TIRED. Now I started this blog thinking I am relatively witty and entertaining (not to mention modest and self-effacing), but no sleep makes me cranky and uninspired.
Marie decided a couple of months back that sleep is not the greatest thing ever and now she keeps waking up in the night and crying/moaning/talking. Which wakes me up. And that makes me TIRED. It started when she was sick. I would rush in there and take her temperature, drug her, change her nappy, give her a bottle. Half the time she would end up in bed with us watching the TV until her temperature went down enough for her to go back to sleep. (I know - very clever of us. You see where this is going.)
Fast forward two months and she is still miffed that we don't want to get up a couple of times a night to give her extra bottles and let her watch TV. I have decided to go in there once, to feel her forehead and make sure she doesn't have a temperature. I will tell her it's sleeping time, and then I will leave her to it. Only she's not entirely with the program and tries to get me back in there roughly once an hour in the middle of the night. She's not even that upset about it, she just moans at me. I hope she stops this soon.
She's getting plain old cow's milk at night just now. Perhaps I should change to a thicker kind of formula to make her sleep better. Any other suggestions? (I'm not willing to try drugs or alcohol. For her, I mean - I'll happily have a beer.)
She's in the creche today, and Jack is at school, so I think I might just catch up on a couple of hours of sleep.
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It's so easy to get them unwittingly started on bad habits. Sleep is sacred, though. So I guess you're just going to have to be firm.
ReplyDeleteEasier said than done.
@Ms. Moon - I know, I had it all figured out, and it all went fine with Jack. I guess I got complacent. We'll hopefully have this glitch ironed out soon, though.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, it's only affecting my sleep so much. She's happy as anything all day and still goes off to bed with a smile.
This is how kids torture parents.
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated topic-my mom said that everywhere besides the states kids sleep with their parents in a "family" bed. Finn slept with us until he was a month old. Josh hated it...I wouldn't want to do it for SO long...but it was nice and convenient for nursing him. It doesn't sound like you do the whole family bed thing...
The big problem I have with that is it stops the thing that makes more babies (if it doesn't, that's a HUGE problem)!