Friday, September 25, 2009

What Gives?!?

Keelin has decided not to sleep though the night anymore. At 5 weeks she started sleeping though the night and I'm not talking that 6-7 hours stright BS everyone raves about. 6-7 hours stright takes us to 1 or 2 am since her bedtime is 7, if I have to get up before the butt crack up dawn that is not sleeping though the night. When I say sleeping though the night I'm talking 7-7 or at least 7-6. It WAS nice. Now however I'm getting that 6-7 hour crap, or I guess really it's 7-8 hours.


She wakes up sometime between 2 and 5 and sometimes at 2 and 5. I could live with a 2 or 3 am feeding, I'm not super happy about it but I can deal. It's when she wakes up anytime after 4:30 but before 5:20 or after 5:25 that really messes me up.


The alarm goes off at 5:30 and I get up and get ready for the boy to arrive. It really only takes me about 10 minuets to get ready for him but I like to be downstairs and awake when he gets here.


If she gets up after 4:30 I cannot go back to sleep because by the time she is done eating it's 5 or a little after and whats the point.

Getting up at 5:20 means I only lose out on the last 10 minuets of sleep and I'm ok with that.

Getting up after 5:25 runs the risk of her still eating when the boy arrives and that is just a big hassel. If I bring her downstaris with me to finish eating there is no going back to sleep. If I put her back in her bed before she is done eating so I can greet him and get him settled she is unhappy and when she is unhappy she is nosy and there are other people in the house that could possibley hear her.


There are times she wakes up from her nap way to early and if I leave her alone she usually goes back to sleep within 15 minuets (and no I don't leave her to cry during that time she is just awake and talking and then goes back to sleep). I tried to do this in the middle of the night twice now but really alls that does is make me miss out on another 15 minuets of sleep because it seems like she really is hungry. I try to get her to eat more durning the day but it's pretty much impossible to force a breadfed baby to eat, I offer often, but if she's not interested it's not going to happen.
maybe if she knew how pretty she was asleep

1 comment:

fuentes said...

Did the teething tablets help any. I sure hope so. When she is asleep she looks so peaceful the angle that she is. Or maybe that sounds like some pagan thing to say????