2008
like he said he would
maura @ 11:18 pm
I love my child, but his atrocious sleep habits are wearing me down lately. He’s never been a good sleeper: as a new-newborn he wouldn’t sleep unless we were holding him, he never would sleep in the crib, and in general he just does not like to sleep alone. Which I can honestly understand — I don’t like it either.
So of course we still snuggle w/him every night while he goes to sleep, and wakes up every night to come in to our bed. Which, for the past year or so, has been fine: he’s been going to sleep reasonably quickly and coming in around 2am or even later.
But since the end of the summer it’s been shot all to hell. He’s taking forever to go to sleep and wants us to stay until he’s all the way out. And he’s waking up as early as 11pm, by which point of course we’re not even asleep yet. Then he gets pissy that we want him to go back to bed.
He also won’t go to sleep with a babysitter, which is a drag because it means whenever we go out he is up til we get home, then wakes up at the usual crack of dawn the next morning and is crabby all day.
Whine whine whine, woe is me. But I have some work to do tonight and we are 1/2way through a movie from last night that I would really like to finish, but thanks to the incredible sleepless child we’ll have to put it off for tomorrow. Blargh.
