sleep

Sunday mornings are my mornings.  It’s the one day out of the week where I get to sleep in until I wake up.  Then I get to eat my breakfast as slow as I choose without having to deal with Monkey.

Oh how I love & look forward to Sunday mornings.

But lately it seems like Sunday mornings don’t go my way.  Two Sundays ago my husband was going out of town, so I didn’t sleep in.  I wanted to savor the extra bit of time together before taking him to the airport.

And then there’s this morning.

I was [click to continue…]

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Up until a week ago this past Saturday, things with Monkey were smooth sailing.  He had a schedule, stuck to it, & we were all doing well.  The kid was still taking 2 naps a day & sleeping through the night from 7pm until 745am.  It was wonderful & just when I found myself thinking “this is too good to be true”, Monkey changed everything up.

& now it’s pretty bad.

Saturday, August 14th – Monkey & I went to two birthday parties, which meant that he really did not have a nap.  He was exhausted when it was time for bed, so we thought he would sleep until his usual time, maybe even longer.

Wrong.

He woke up around 11pm screaming.  None of this crying stuff that [click to continue…]

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Today has been day 5 of having my happy baby back.  I wanted to let y’all know that he’s slept through the night the past four nights, but I was so super scared of jinxing it.  For real.

I cannot tell you how much better I function with sleep.  & Monkey is like 500 times happier with a full night’s of sleep too.  We’re in a state of bliss because we’ve gotten sleep.  It’s so freakin’ wonderful.

One of the comments on the other post said to give it a week since the last time Monkey threw up for him to get back to normal.  I kept my fingers & toes crossed when the one week mark came.  Sure enough that commenter was right & Monkey went back to his usual habits, including sleeping through the night.  Woo hoo!!

I’m so happy that no sleep-training will be needed in order to get Monkey to sleep better!!

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I think it was 2:30am this morning when I told Tarzan, “It feels like we have a 2 month old again”.  Monkey was in between us in bed & he wouldn’t stop screaming.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, hence Monkey sleeping in our bed.

I guess we’ve been really lucky.  Monkey has slept through the night since he was about 8 weeks old.  Consistently sleeping through the night.  It was something that we could count on & knew would happen, no matter how rough the day might have been.

Now, sleeping through the night is in the past & I don’t know what we can do to get it back.  I miss the days of not waking up in the middle of the night to a screaming child.  It’s been exactly one week & I think I’m about to go crazy with the lack of sleep.  How do people do it?!

Let’s go back to a week ago from this past Tuesday.  We had a playdate & things were fine.  It was a good day actually.  Monkey & I came home, he took a bath, & we went on with our regular bedtime routine that [click to continue…]

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Putting to Monkey to bed tonight was tough.  Lately he’s been really strict with setting his own schedule of when he needs a bath & when it’s bedtime.  If we miss that window of opportunity, he is a mess for about 1.5 hours later.  Seriously.

He functions best when we give him a bath at 6pm & when he’s in bed by 7pm.  Anything after 7pm is not good, for Monkey or myself.  He freaks out when I rock him, cries, throws his head back, climbs all over me, & he’s pretty much impossible to calm down.

Tonight was no different.  We were on track to get him a bath & put him to bed on time when we ran into a neighbor outside.  After realizing what time it was, I told her we had to go & ran inside to get Monkey’s bath [click to continue…]

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And there I was.  Sound asleep in bed.  It was around 6:45 in the morning and I awoke to our dog staring up at me crying and whining.  Oh God.  Don’t tell me.  You see, our dog was never the crying-whining type.  But since having Monkey, he must have noticed how when Monkey cries, he gets our attention.

So, over the last few months our dog has regressed and turned into a baby.  He drives us crazy with all of his whining lately.  And like most dogs who may cry because they need to go outside in the morning, our dog [click to continue…]

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It would seem that Tarzan & I have been blessed with our little Monkey.  He’s such an angel & I feel lucky that he is such an easy baby.  But here’s the thing with this post, I’m not bragging about what a good child he is, so I hope that I don’t come across like I am.

Many of you have asked about Monkey’s nighttime schedule, so I’m sharing this here.  Hopefully something of what I say can help your child sleep better at night.  Hopefully.

Also, even though I have a very easy baby right now, I wouldn’t [click to continue…]

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This past weekend I was talking to one of my neighbors about kids.  She told me that all moms lie about their children at some point.  Obviously since I’m pretty new to this whole mom thing, I can’t say that I’ve noticed that yet.  She said that she has no idea why, but all moms lie to make their kids sound better.

For example, even if the child isn’t sleeping through the night, the mom will lie & say that her child does sleep through the night.  To me, this is [click to continue…]

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I told you that I would jinx myself by writing a sleeping through the night post.

Monkey went to bed at 7:30pm last night and woke up hungry at 4am.  I sat him on his newborn lounger and went into the kitchen to make a bottle.

As I made the bottle, my eyes glanced at the clock on the microwave & I was taken back exactly to 12 weeks [click to continue…]

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