Last night was awful. It as one of those nights where you tell your spouse, "YOUR child was a monster last night," with lots of emphasis on the your, because you are certain that all of the stubborn DNA came from him. One of those nights where you want to just kill yourself from being so tired. I contemplated wrapping the mobile around my neck, turning it all and hoping it swiftly did the job so I could finally enjoy some peaceful rest (albeit eternal rest). Alas, I did not commit mobilcide on myself, but here is what almost drove me to it...Let me paint the picture. You get your angelic child asleep. In my case, I had just nursed her. I had just finished up on one side, and was trying to get her back awake to nurse on the other side before putting her back down to sleep for good. She wasn't having it (therein sealing my fate to forever be lopsided "up top"). She was out. I mean, OUT! She was in a lactose-induced coma. Full on milk sedation. I have seen grown women with 17 Vodka Tonics in them, lying on a bathroom floor in a bar who are more responsive. (OK, that was actually me. It was my bachelorette party- don't judge. And- while the bouncer did have to practically carry me out, my feet were sort of shuffling so I was therefore more responsive than said child).
OK, so she's in this milk coma like she gets. I tickle her, I change her diaper, I make her go all marionette and have her do little jumping jacks as I envision her watching "Sweatin' to the Oldies" with Richard Simmons. I do everything humane to wake her up and she is lights out. There is NO waking this kid up.
Ahhhh, but there is. As any parent knows, there is. So, resigned, I ever so softly, ever so gingerly place her in her cradle. I lay in bed, pull my warm covers up to my shoulders, shut my eyes and let my body relax... and BAM! She's awake. She's looking around, grunting, wanting held. 10 seconds ago she was sleeping through baby jumping jacks and now, she's wide awake and all, "Hey lady, pick me back up!"
And it's not like this kid doesn't sleep. She does sleep, often in fact. She sleeps in my arms, she sleeps in her swing, she sleeps in her carseat, she sleeps on my chest, she sleeps in her cradle, she sleeps in my arms (I know I said that one but since that is all I do all day long I figured it was worth mentioning twice). She does know how to sleep. We've even had a 5-hour stretch or two lately. But last night- oh man. This baby joust occurred ALL night long. I mean all night. I mean, I finally got her down at 6:45 AM (that's right, AM) only to have the rest of the household wake up 45 minutes later.
I'm tired. I haven't completely ruled out mobilcide- we'll see how today progresses.
18 comments:
oh i feel so bad for you. :( i hope you get a very long nap today with no interruptions.
Oh Beth. I wonder if the motor would burn out before it 'got the job done...' Something to think about I guess. Anyway, on a more serious note, when you're not napping and have a few spare minutes let me know, I have a gift for the precious child that kept you up all night. (It could be fashioned into a noose if need be... bonus.)
I would kill myself. Mobilcide probably wouldn't do the trick. Not that you should kill yourself, because that would be bad. But, Can we help? Do you need anything? Don't they make NyQuil for babies?
I feel your pain, we had a night like that last night. And the night before. Of course he did sleep right through us playing rockband until after midnight, but apparently that was it for his sleep and therefore mine.
Hang in there and thanks for visiting my blog today.
Kristen
Sorry to hear about your night. I hate to tell you that we have them quite frequently here, too. Damn kids. Just when one's sound asleep, the other isn't. Or at least it seems that way. It *will* get better, or so I'm told ... :)
Oh the joys of babies.... I am just now getting some sleep and mine just turned 14 months. I feel your pain... I really do.
oh man.
Those nights suck.
The bright side is in, say 6 years, you will totally have forgotten that night ever happened.
I am so curious as to how all babies know right away how much better sleep is upon a nice rack.
Ugh these nights are rough. I slept in our lazy boy with Jack on my chest for the first two months of his life. Do you think she is going through a growth spurt? I remember the nights he just wanted to nurse non stop and I wanted to detach my boobs from my body just so I could get a break! At least as time goes by you will forget about nights like this and only remember the good times. Hang in there!
Don't miss those nights at all. Probably because I had so damn many of them!
Oh, she sounds simply darling - even if she caused you so much trouble!
Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family - Kellan
It's a good thing that baby is so darn cute. Or you would be sending her back to the baby factory for a refund! Just kidding, someday you will miss that beanie baby because she will be all grown up! Until then, take care and try to take nap mama! GB :)
That is terrible...but your post about it is hilarious. She must be his child! :)
So, would now be a bad time to tell you that Gavin slept for an 8 hour stretch last night? :( Maybe tonight will be your night!
Mine are 23, 19, and 13, and you don't get any sleep on this end either once they are driving and dating and Oh God it never ends.
Uggghhh...I remember having one of those nights with Isabelle. Awful. I hope it doesn't happen again. And, you get a nap.
Tagggg!
Oh, goodness! I think that's when you pull out the vodka. It worked for you, it will work for her! Haha.
(I'm completely kidding.)
thanks for the comments! ryc: it's only considered 96 percentile because she's 37wks,2days. If she was 40wks it would be more like 70th percentile. The average baby at 37 weeks is about 6-6.5lbs. :-)
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