Sunday, October 05, 2008

Night #1

I hate to use the word failure whenever talking about myself, so I won't. Last night did not go exactly as planned. J and I went to bed too late - we weren't really tired so didn't go to bed until midnight. 2am the boys both woke up (G had wet the bed and E probably heard G get up...) so...change sheets, get boys back to bed. 2:30am...V wakes up. And cries. And cries. And cries. She cried from 2:30am - 3:38am when I went in to feed her. It was too much for me!!! At that point I was thinking that I needed to get a little more sleep before waking at 5:15 to work! SO - I went in to feed her and she was holding her foot up to her mouth crying off and on. When I walked in, she was trying to suck on her foot. Then as I held her and started to feed her, I could hear her tummy rumbling. Maybe I'm not ready for this after all.
The other thing that complicates this is that she doesn't eat as much when I'm at work as when I'm home, so she usually wakes up more that night to eat to make up for that. If she's truly hungry, how do I teach her to sleep through her hunger?? Hmmm...maybe I'm ok getting up at 3am to feed once...maybe we'll work toward that. I'm a sucker!!
Glad to hear from you other moms experiencing this! Thanks for sharing. Its nice to know I'm not in this alone....Good luck to you all - may your babies sleep, sleep, sleep.
Posted by Carrie P at 9:04 PM

2 comments:

Bethany said...

I was a failure last night too. Bekah Jane woke up at 4:30 and I let her cry for hmmmm.... 6 minutes. I went to get her because I started to hear Ezekiel whimper and I could not stomach the thought of trying to get both of them back to sleep. Even at that, Ezekiel was already awake by the time I went to get her and he cried in his bed for about 10 minutes while I nursed the baby back to sleep. Thankfully he fell back asleep on his own! I really don't know how I'm going to break this habit while they are in the same room. Maybe move the baby back to our room to let her cry? Auggh... it is hard. You are not alone, neither in sleep deprivation nor being a sucker for your sweet little girl!

12:08 PM
Elizabeth said...

I have lived through miserable weeks with the crying thing, and usually caving. But last week, for whatever reason, I felt like enough was enough and Owen needed to learn to settle himself. I dont think he is hungry, he has thunder thighs too. I have heard that waking up at 6 months is not usually a hunger thing, its a habit? Anyways it took a week of no caving in. 1st day over a hour, 2nd day an hour, 3rd day 27 min (not that I was counting) next day 15! Im still working on it. I hate it too.

1:50 PM

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