This blog is so affectionately named "25 to Life" cause well let's be real, you raise a kid they go to college and that's roughly 25 years right there and then they need you for the rest of their life. I intend to share my story and journey as the mother of baby C as we go forward in life together and I hope you guys will go on that journey with me.
My girl is 8 months old and she's wonderful, she's everything I prayed
for and dreamed of but lets cut to it she is WORK! I'm currently a SAHM
and I'm blessed to be able to do so so let me take a min to shout out
all the SAHMs, SAHDs and all the employed moms & dads out there because
neither is easy. Baby C is the hardest challenge God has ever handed me and He's given me some challenges. In the beginning it's all sweet and wonderful and while you feel like you're not sleeping much (some of you aren't) they're sleeping and if you're one of the lucky ones you'll get to sleep when they sleep. I wasn't a lucky one lol.
So this week in the Chronicles of Baby C we have the baby who slept almost perfectly for the past 4 months and has decided this week she's no longer going to. I know I shouldn't complain when there are moms and dads out there with babies who wake every other hour, I know some parents like you and I know some babies like that and I'm wishing you the best but I want my perfect sleeper back! Not only is she waking but she's waking to play not out of hunger. I slightly suspect it's her teeth but they don't appear to bother any other time of the day so I can't fully say that's it. When they first started coming in I definitely could say that was it cause she spiked a small fever and was overall fussy making it an easy fix. This is not that, this is a baby who hates for mom to sleep ever.
So we put her to bed at 8p this is after she's had dinner, played and bath if it's a bath night then she usually sleeps until 7:30ish in the morning. This week she has woken up at 12a like clock work and she's up for the next 2 hours. In the beginning of the week I fought with her getting her back to sleep and she ended up in our bed but because hubby needs to rest up for work and can't sleep comfy with her in the bed on night two I took her into the guest room. I put on the Roku put on Sesame St and prayed that would calm her down....NOPE! She was only more chatty. By the time Wednesday came I was fed up so I put her in her swing turned it on turned on the Baby First channel and I fell asleep on the sofa while she was strapped in and eventually she went to sleep but she wasn't fussy, night time programming was much better. Last night I gave her the Tylenol just in case and she did calm down and go back down sooner which makes me think the tooth might be the culprit but I'm not sure.
It's 9:49 she just went down her sleep schedule is off cause she slept a lot in the car today so I have no clue how this will impact her night. I'm hoping by going to bed later will discourage her to not wake up in the middle of the night but can I say something awful? I really don't care! Hubby worked all day yes but he offered to take over tonight and he's getting up with that little monster if she does.
I did read something on resetting their schedule when they become habitual wakers (I know that's not a word and I think that's the term). So if things go south tonight tomorrow night we will begin doing that. Pretty much the objective is to kind of disturb them without fully waking them about an hour before they would normally get up. Then you hope that they realize they're still tired and feel like they've already woken. It might sound lame but when you need sleep you'll try anything and while I sound harsh on hubby I do want him to get some rest.
Wish us luck!
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