Madelynn didn't sleep through the night till about 8 1/2 months... before that 8 1/2 months of not sleeping through the night, you have the last 2 or so months of the end of the pregnancy that your up every 2 hours or so to pee, re-adjust, catch your breath, or walk a leg cramp out... all that fantastic stuff that comes with child bearing. After Madelynn... what I considered "slept through the night" she was only up about 3 out of the 7 nights of the week. Not up for a bottle but just up screaming.. I honestly believe that she had(s) nightmares.. that seems to be the only reason as to why she still doesn't sleep through the night every single night of her life.
Payton is now 7 1/2 months and she still isn't sleeping through the night. It is wearing my ever lovin soul out! I CANNOT wake up in the mornings when the girls do. I seriously can't. I sleep through the screaming and "mommy, mom, mom, mama, MOMMY"! (thats Madelynn trying to wake me up.) I am sure that the fact that I'm pregnant again for the 3rd year in a row makes me just a little more tired than the average pregnancy would. I remember working with Madelynn when she was this age, desperate for her to sleep through the night, trying the paci over a bottle until she just get used to the no bottle thing ... but what do ya do when the kid doesn't take a paci?!?!?! Her bottle is her paci... her bottle is what puts her to sleep, her bottle is what soothes her when she is upset.
I guess I am just trying to figure out what to do with this girl. I have tried to go in there and pat her back to try and get her back to sleep... I have tried everything. Payton is the kinda girl that if you don't give her what she wants (bottle) when she wants it (2 O'clock in the morning) then she just gets louder and louder and louder... and then you walk out of the room out of her sight, to make a bottle, she goes insane and most of the time ends up waking up Madelynn. So basically I am in a lose lose situation because I can't just let her cry. I guess if we lived in a humongous house and the girls rooms were at opposite ends of the house I could just let her cry it out. But for now... all I can do is continue to wake up and feed her ever 4-5 hours and hope and pray that she will just start sleeping through the night. A teensie weensie break from night time feedings would be wonderful before it starts all over again!!
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