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Pleading With the Baby Sleep Gods
Please... Just SLEEP
She is adorable right?
Sitting there in her crib, playing with her toys when she really should be sleeping.
Which is becoming a common occurrence these days. She doesn’t care for sleeping, especially when she has to wear her helmet to bed.
Hell, I wouldn’t want to sleep with that thing on my head either. Would you?
But at almost nine months old I could really use a good eight hours straight with no interruptions. Unfortunately for me I am up with Addison at least two or three times a night.
She gets up to nurse, and typically goes back to sleep but I am just at my sleepless wits end.
I am short with the older kids.
I am nursing headaches on a daily basis.
I am cranky.
I just want some sleep… that is all.
Even if it was just one night… one full night of sleep.
Is there some kind of strange magical spell I can put on her for the night, or something I can sacrifice to the sleep gods to actually get her to let me have just one full night… just one!
Please… I will do anything!
Sadly I know it is going to be a while before I get that full night of sleep. My middle son didn’t sleep through the night till he was fifteen months old. Yup a one before a five!
Why can’t all kids be like my oldest? Sleeping through the night at four months old. I guess he spoiled me and turned me into one of those smug parents who brags about their sleeping baby. Now I got payback times two!
Moms!
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6 Comments
Bre commented on Jan 18 12 at 10:43 amno advice here, just some company for your misery. Mine is almost 9 months too and he has slept “through the night” (I count that to mean from the time he is put to bed to at least 6 in the morning) only 8 days in his whole life! Diet coke and brisk walks are what keep me functioning…barely
Sara commented on Jan 18 12 at 1:41 pmI’m with you – mine’s 7.5 months old, and the longest he ever slept was 5 hours. And I work full-time. Like a zombie.
TS commented on Jan 18 12 at 1:52 pmNo tips for sleeping through the night – my 7mth old daughter also wakes several times throughout the night.
But, for your sanity:
Daytime naps (if you can). Ask a friend/family member to come over and watch the little one for a while so you can catch up on some shut-eye.
Or, go to bed when baby does (again, might want someone else around to help with this). Hard when baby’s bedtime is 6:30-7pm, but so worth it the next morning!
I also have been known to drive around in the car until baby sleeps, then pull over and sleep myself!
Emily commented on Jan 18 12 at 2:17 pmI’m also sleepless for 8 months and counting. My first didn’t sleep through the night until two weeks before his second birthday. I know there is an end to this, but it is feeling very far away. Good thing he’s cute!
Jessica Grimes commented on Jan 18 12 at 2:32 pmhello misery…. I am your company.
Erin commented on Jan 18 12 at 3:23 pmSIx months old today, and she’s only slept through the night a handful of times. I’m up 3-4 times a night as well. I can’t nap during the day (I don’t think my boss would care for that), and usually don’t get to bed until around 10 pm. My four year old goes to bed at 7:30, but the precious few hours I have between 7:30-10:00 are just too precious to give up (not that my body would let me go to sleep at 7:30 anyway). I figure it’ll be soon that she starts sleeping through the night and just take it one day at a time. Took my oldest daughter until she was a year to STTN, so shouldn’t be long now, right? RIGHT?
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