Sleep is a thing of the past

Sleep: a condition of body and mind such as that which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended.

Sleep when you have a child: Just kidding that definition doesn’t exist.

We never really had a bad four month sleep regression but it definitely reared its evil head at 5 and a half months. Baby doll has been waking up 4 to 5 times a night and eating two of those times because I don’t know how to calm her and get her back to sleep. Against my better mom judgement, usually around 4am when we have all had enough, we bring her in our bed and co-sleep with her. She zonks out...mainly because I think she digs on the Tempurpedic mattress (she is a princess after all).

Selfies in mommas bed

At first, she was teething and that sucked. I can only imagine how terrible something poking through your baby gums feels. Then,once her two teeth came in she had no excuse. We even have a super solid bedtime routine too--pick up from day care, play until 6:30, eat some solid food, bath time, book, boobs, and bedtime. What happened to my baby that only woke up at 3 am to eat for 15 minutes and then would peacefully sleep until 6:45?? I can hack that, this up 400 times stuff has got to go.

Bath Time 

Now that she knows how to crawl and pull up on things, sleeping has become a thing of the past. And why not, you can do laps in your crib like Mario Andretti and then use the mesh bumper as a spring board. Really cool Aubin.

Basically, we are haggard and homeless looking every day. We are still drinking mass quantities of coffee and have super short fuses all the time. If we are jerks to you, don’t judge us. It is only a matter of time---she will eventually sleep right!?!?

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Update: the day after I wrote this draft, miss perfect decided that she didn’t want to disappoint us anymore and finally slept from 7:30-5:30!!! I feel like a brand new woman!! I'm sure it was a onetime event but lets all cross our fingers and toes that she keeps it up!!

Do Great Things

Linds

Baby Teeth are the Work of the Devil

I am fairly certain that baby teeth are the work of the devil. God was creating these perfect little humans and the big D came in and had to put his nasty sprinkle of awfulness into the mix. Poor tinygirl has been cutting teeth for the past week and she is no less than super pissed.

She is pretty normal during the day—happy, playing and crawling. But when it comes time for bedtime, ho-ly crap, she is not a happy camper. I have tried every trick in the book. Cold teethers, Orajel, teething tablets, baby motrin, sophie, cold things in her mesh teether—basically whatever I can get my hands on to help her not be miserable at night. 

The only thing that semi calms her down is bringing her in bed with us. I really don’t want to start doing that and getting her used to it because, well, I like my bed, and my husband. I also want to continue to sleep like a starfish and not have to worry about rolling over and pancaking my child. [I know co-sleeping works for some people—that’s super cool—I am just not one of those people, no judgement do what makes you happy]

Also, 2 weekends ago we went to the lake with our friends. We had a ton of fun but when I got home I noticed that tiny lady had these crazy bumps on her!! We took her to the doctor and they said she had Chiggers!! Meeehhhhh. After putting Hydrocortisone on them, I did some research and people had been saying, “put clear nail polish on them-it will suffocate the chigger and then they will heal” I thought that was crazy but hey it worked. 

I am hoping that right now we are just in the perfect storm of her sucking at sleeping because honestly, I am exhausted. We are all exhausted. We may be getting about 3-4 hours of sleep a night for the past 2 weeks. I don’t know about y’all but I don’t operate that way. I have been living on 4 cups of coffee and broken dreams. I am just hoping she pops her little self right out of this torture soon before we all go berserk. Any thoughts on how to help tame this tooth beast that is hurting my princess?

Do great things!

Linds