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).
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| 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.
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| Bath Time |
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!?!?
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
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