An Eventful Night
I guess I spoke too soon at 6 weeks when I *thought* Audrey was sleeping through the night... Apparently her circadian cycle has reverted back to its bad habit of thinking night time is day time and day time is night time.
Jeff & I were discussing last night's fiasco this morning - the fact that Audrey stayed awake between her 11:30pm and 1:30am feedings then wouldn't go to sleep after the 1:30am feeding. Not only would she not go to sleep, she did not want to be swaddled nor held but when I put her in her crib, she was still restless. I dimmed her bedroom lights, turned on a nightlight that projects little stars onto the ceiling, played her bumper book for her, and just sat with her. Eventually, I realized she was not going to nod off but she also wasn't screaming. So I laid my head down on our Boppy pillow on the floor by her crib and grabbed a quick catnap. I was hoping when I awoke, I'd find her completely asleep for the night.
Not so... She woke me up with her hungry cry at 4:10am. For some reason, I was livid. I wasn't even sure if she had fallen asleep between 3am and when she woke up (3am was about when I drifted off and she was still in her restless awake state). So I changed her and fed her and then hoped the biggest of all hopes that she would go to sleep. As usual, she dozed off at the end of the feeding but the minute I tried to move her - CRY!
At this point, it was quarter to 5am and I felt I hadn't had a decent night's sleep. I woke up Jeff and we traded off. He told me it didn't take much to get her to go to sleep. I knew it wouldn't - she was starting to doze off again but in the mean time, she was crying her tired cry and I was starting to cry MY tired cry too!
So both Audrey and Mommy fell asleep at 5am.
Guess who was up again at 8am... yep. Hungry again.
So I guess the whole sleeping through the night or getting long chunks of sleep in the night are suddenly a thing of the past... Hopefully, this too shall pass...
Anyway, after discussing all this with Jeff, we joked around about how Audrey was a "bad girl" and needed to "go to her room." Then we thought how funny it would be if we grounded her because she was a "bad girl." Can you imagine?....
I'm sorry, you can't come visit Audrey today - she's grounded.
Audrey, we're canceling your baptism party because you're grounded.
Jeff and I had a deliriously happy chuckle about that.
On a somewhat related note, during the little sleep I got last night, I had another Audrey dream. I dreamed we had FOUR Audreys to take care of. In my dream, I was trying to put all four down to sleep for the night. Two were in the crib but were falling out so I put them in two copies of our co-sleeper-type bed. One was in the pack-n-play and the last one was in the bouncer. I got all of them soundly asleep except the one in the bouncer who continued to fuss.
Jeff said one Audrey is enough. I agree.
Audrey asleep in her crib.... during the middle of the afternoon... (d'oh!)
Jeff & I were discussing last night's fiasco this morning - the fact that Audrey stayed awake between her 11:30pm and 1:30am feedings then wouldn't go to sleep after the 1:30am feeding. Not only would she not go to sleep, she did not want to be swaddled nor held but when I put her in her crib, she was still restless. I dimmed her bedroom lights, turned on a nightlight that projects little stars onto the ceiling, played her bumper book for her, and just sat with her. Eventually, I realized she was not going to nod off but she also wasn't screaming. So I laid my head down on our Boppy pillow on the floor by her crib and grabbed a quick catnap. I was hoping when I awoke, I'd find her completely asleep for the night.
Not so... She woke me up with her hungry cry at 4:10am. For some reason, I was livid. I wasn't even sure if she had fallen asleep between 3am and when she woke up (3am was about when I drifted off and she was still in her restless awake state). So I changed her and fed her and then hoped the biggest of all hopes that she would go to sleep. As usual, she dozed off at the end of the feeding but the minute I tried to move her - CRY!
At this point, it was quarter to 5am and I felt I hadn't had a decent night's sleep. I woke up Jeff and we traded off. He told me it didn't take much to get her to go to sleep. I knew it wouldn't - she was starting to doze off again but in the mean time, she was crying her tired cry and I was starting to cry MY tired cry too!
So both Audrey and Mommy fell asleep at 5am.
Guess who was up again at 8am... yep. Hungry again.
So I guess the whole sleeping through the night or getting long chunks of sleep in the night are suddenly a thing of the past... Hopefully, this too shall pass...
Anyway, after discussing all this with Jeff, we joked around about how Audrey was a "bad girl" and needed to "go to her room." Then we thought how funny it would be if we grounded her because she was a "bad girl." Can you imagine?....
I'm sorry, you can't come visit Audrey today - she's grounded.
Audrey, we're canceling your baptism party because you're grounded.
Jeff and I had a deliriously happy chuckle about that.
On a somewhat related note, during the little sleep I got last night, I had another Audrey dream. I dreamed we had FOUR Audreys to take care of. In my dream, I was trying to put all four down to sleep for the night. Two were in the crib but were falling out so I put them in two copies of our co-sleeper-type bed. One was in the pack-n-play and the last one was in the bouncer. I got all of them soundly asleep except the one in the bouncer who continued to fuss.
Jeff said one Audrey is enough. I agree.
Audrey asleep in her crib.... during the middle of the afternoon... (d'oh!)