Mr. Sandman...bring me a dream
or I'd settle for a 3 hour block of friggin un-interrupted sleep. I am not asking for 6 hours, no just a measly little 3 hours straight, is that too much to ask for??? My baby is 9 months old, I should think 3 hours is NOT too much to ask for!!! I cannot take this anymore, it's 2 nights now that that child wakes up at 4:30am and is done with sleep. Now this is after waking up several times during the night. Yesterday he barely slept all day, never more than a 30 minute interval. UGH!!!!!!! Ok, I do believe he is teething and this is the cause, yet again, and Motrin helps, when I gave it to him at 4:30 he did fall asleep after about 30 minutes of babbling loudly keeping me up and basically ruining any chances of falling back asleep. I'm tired ok. Seriously tired.
Why does it hurt? Teething? I don't remember it hurting, the second set, when I was a child, I remember losing teeth, the tooth fairy coming, and then getting the new permanent tooth, I don't recall it hurting, so why or why must it hurt so much the first time around??? My first never really had major teething issues, he got teeth later maybe that's why he wasn't in so much pain? Is that possible. He was 10 months before he got his first and 13 months before the second. He never fussed much, this is all new to me. OK so I guess I know why it hurts, it's cutting through the gum, the second set does not have to cut through, it's already cut, ok fine, but still, does it have to be this painful to keep me, I mean my baby up all night??? Seriously? Lovely crap.
I knew I was in for trouble this time around from the first day I felt the baby moving in my belly, those first twinges, the excitment of realizing there really is a baby growing in there, soon, within a week or so, I realized, omg, this child never stops, it does not sleep it seems, it's in perpetual motion. This went on until the baby was yanked out of my belly. I dare say he did not ever stop moving for more than 20 minutes at a time. They had trouble at my ultrasounds because the baby wouldn't stop moving. I knew it. He didn't sleep then and he continued to not sleep after birth and still, 9 months later...I firmly believe these babies set a pattern in-utero and stick with it. My first, he had a very set pattern even before he was born, 3 hours awake, 3 hours asleep. He was born, and immediately was sleeping 3 hours, awake 3 hours, eating every 3 hours (hey Kel, more 3's for you, HA!) and was sleeping 6 hours straight from about 4 months. And I thought that was hard. I had no idea he was a good sleeper at the time.
So Mr. Sandman...anything would be nice, 2 hours even, I'll take whatever I can get. Please tell me he'll be sleeping through the night before he starts college.
sleep deprived mommy
Why does it hurt? Teething? I don't remember it hurting, the second set, when I was a child, I remember losing teeth, the tooth fairy coming, and then getting the new permanent tooth, I don't recall it hurting, so why or why must it hurt so much the first time around??? My first never really had major teething issues, he got teeth later maybe that's why he wasn't in so much pain? Is that possible. He was 10 months before he got his first and 13 months before the second. He never fussed much, this is all new to me. OK so I guess I know why it hurts, it's cutting through the gum, the second set does not have to cut through, it's already cut, ok fine, but still, does it have to be this painful to keep me, I mean my baby up all night??? Seriously? Lovely crap.
I knew I was in for trouble this time around from the first day I felt the baby moving in my belly, those first twinges, the excitment of realizing there really is a baby growing in there, soon, within a week or so, I realized, omg, this child never stops, it does not sleep it seems, it's in perpetual motion. This went on until the baby was yanked out of my belly. I dare say he did not ever stop moving for more than 20 minutes at a time. They had trouble at my ultrasounds because the baby wouldn't stop moving. I knew it. He didn't sleep then and he continued to not sleep after birth and still, 9 months later...I firmly believe these babies set a pattern in-utero and stick with it. My first, he had a very set pattern even before he was born, 3 hours awake, 3 hours asleep. He was born, and immediately was sleeping 3 hours, awake 3 hours, eating every 3 hours (hey Kel, more 3's for you, HA!) and was sleeping 6 hours straight from about 4 months. And I thought that was hard. I had no idea he was a good sleeper at the time.
So Mr. Sandman...anything would be nice, 2 hours even, I'll take whatever I can get. Please tell me he'll be sleeping through the night before he starts college.
sleep deprived mommy
posted by Barbara at 5:59 AM
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