Katie has temporarily lost her status as a good baby who sleeps through the night. 😐
After weeks of sleeping through until at least 7—but more likely 7:30 or 8—she has been up at 5 or 5:30 three mornings in a row.
Overall I know I should still be thrilled (since Owen at this age was still up a few times a night) but it’s SO hard to get up that early after you’ve been “sleeping in” for awhile.
Hopefully it’s just a brief phase.
I didn’t quite mean for this to happen…but it was indeed cute.
I felt a little bad—even though I’m sure she wasn’t UNcomfortable—so I moved her.
She slept almost an hour, then woke up like this—TA DA!
Also: SUPERBABY!!
She’s making up for some of the screaming she did on the road trip.
Whoops! I didn’t want her to fall asleep there…but damn if it isn’t adorable.
Katie was up at 1. Maggie was noisy. Owen was up at 1:30 tossing and turning and turned his turtle night light on. I was up listening (in case he had to go potty) and saw his light go off 45m later. It came on two more times (I know because I was up and saw it). Then Katie was up at 5:30. And then Owen had to pee.
GOOD MORNING!
😐
As soon as one kid falls asleep, the other one wakes up.
Owen barely ever sleeps in the car…so of course, not five minutes after he fell asleep, Katie wakes up SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER because, oh, you know, she’s STARVING after just having eaten 4oz 30 minutes prior.
We didn’t want to haul a pack-and-play with us, and since Katie isn’t mobile while sleeping yet (other than maybe scooting a few inches one way or another) we weren’t too worried about just putting her wherever. The first night at the hotel she got put on a blanket on the floor. At Papa and Grannie Lin’s, she got a Rubbermaid box. 🙂
Well, that was a long, sleepless night. I didn’t really fall asleep until 11, Katie was up at 2, Owen was up at 3, and Katie was up at 5…and they both made so damn much noise all night we barely slept.
OMG. Katie is driving me batshit crazy today. She is super cranky, screaming like she’s starving, but spits and sputters and won’t sit still to drink a bottle. Then she’ll drink for 10 seconds then spit it out. There are no burps in there and she’s in a clean diaper. Lather, rinse, repeat ALL DAY LONG.
And I know she’s not even being that bad…I just have a VERY low tolerance for this type of thing, and why I wasn’t sure about having another baby. If she ever gets colicky I won’t be able to handle it. Seriously.
I feel like a horrible mom. :'(
Katie slept from 9:15p to 7a. YAY!! What a 180 from Owen at this age…
I’m getting really frustrated with the 4am swaddle fails. We aren’t doing anything differently…so the swaddle is either too small (?), she’s just more active and able to escape (moreso than when she was a newborn), or she isn’t sleeping through the night anymore and is waking up on her own and THEN getting out of the swaddle.
It’s just frustrating because the mornings she sleeps through until 6:30-7, she’s still completely secure in her swaddle. Every time she’s up in the middle of the night (always around 4-4:30) she’s out of the swaddle…
We have a Miracle Blanket (swaddle) we can try, but it didn’t work for Owen (or we just couldn’t ever get it on tight enough) so I don’t have high hopes for using it on Katie. We have a brand new type ordered and it will be here next week…
I know I should still be thankful for five straight hours of sleep at this age (especially compared to Owen)…but it’s hard since I KNOW the little bugger CAN sleep longer.
So, Katie wasn’t really tired enough this morning for her first morning nap (which usually happens after her morning feeding)—but she had slept almost nine hours (!!!) that night so I sort of expected it. But she wasn’t fussing, so I swaddled her and put her down anyway, just to see.
Then I got Owen up, gave him his snack in front of Little Einsteins (“Grandma Rocket,” his new favorite—which is the Little Red Rocket (Riding) Hood episode), and went to the office to do a few things on the computer.
After a bit, knowing the episode was surely over, I went to check on him…and he was gone. I quick looked in his room and he wasn’t there. I was going to head downstairs to check, but thought I’d look at Katie’s monitor first…and lo and behold, I saw the video was flying all over the place… which meant little hands had control of it. |-|
So, I went to Katie’s room—where the door was closed!—and both lights were on and Owen was playing in there (with the video camera). While she was supposed to be sleeping. Which of course she wasn’t.
Needless to say I was NOT happy. We’ve had discussions before about NOT going into Katie’s room if the door is shut, but apparently it didn’t stick. I asked if he was checking on her and he said no. I asked if she had been crying and he said yes..but I don’t believe him because normally I have dog hearing when it comes to her crying, and I hadn’t heard anything (and she wasn’t crying at the moment).
I told him I was not happy, and then we went over the rules again: If Katie’s door is closed, you don’t go in. Repeated three times.
So then we all—including Katie, since she was obviously awake!—came back into my bedroom and I asked Owen to hand me the purple towel, which he did. I thanked him and he said sweetly “Mama happy? Mama happy now? Mama not sad anymore?”
Yes, Owen, mama is happy now.
What a kid.
Putting Katie to bed at night is probably the most frustrating part of my day. She’ll be dead asleep so we put her down and then (most of the time) it’s an hour or more of ruckus and trips into her room before she actually calms down and falls asleep. Tonight this process started at 9…and I was still going at 10:48.
For those interested, it went kinda like this:
At which point I wasn’t sure if she’d be up again or not, but luckily that was it. FINALLY. It’s such a good thing she sleeps all night (most of the time)…
I really wish I knew what made babies spit up. We just switched to a new formula, and it seems that she’s spitting up more. But it’s not all the time after every bottle which makes me think it can’t be the formula. (For example, at her 4 AM feeding she drank 5 ounces, didn’t burp, and went to sleep no problem. The bottle I’m giving her now, she drank an ounce and spit up. She drank two more ounces and spit up again. Same formula.) Sooo frustrating.
That said, I think today is my most challenging day-with-a-newborn day thus far. And I know it’s nothing even bad or rant-worthy because it could be soooooo much worse… But all morning it’s been eat, spit up, eat, nap for 5 min, screech, spit up, spit up, eat, spit up, 10m nap, screech, eat, spit up, lather rinse, repeat since 7a.
I think it’s just feeling worse because I got so little sleep last night (the least amount of overnight sleep I’ve gotten since she’s been home)—she didn’t fall asleep until after 11, was up at 3:30, and I didn’t fall back to sleep until around 5:30 (the last time I looked at the clock it was 5:20), then she was up screaming to eat at 7:15.
Man, I did/do NOT miss this. She’s been spoiling us (me) for sure…
So, after a handful of “nights” of Katie waking up at 4am to eat (and me writing about it yesterday)…last night—well, this morning—it was 6:45! But the price I paid is that she didn’t take her morning nap (which is what I count on to get things done).
And even though she slept in, I didn’t sleep great… I woke up at 3 when she had a mini in-her-sleep outburst, then at 3:45 when Tom’s alarm went off (vibration, but still), then at 5 when he actually got up and showered and I was somewhat paranoid listening for her (positive she’d be waking up ANY minute), then at 6 when I got up to pee…
So, YAY for Katie, but I’m still :zz::zz::zz:
I know her schedule isn’t set in stone since she’s still so young, but I was really used to the 5a or 6a feeding. The past few nights it’s been 4a. 😐 And when she’s up at 4, that means she’ll be up again around 8, which doesn’t give me a lot of time to get anything done in the morning.
I know it’s still not bad AT ALL because I just have to do one nighttime feeding…but I’m more tired now than when she first came home and that just doesn’t seem right. |-|
:zz:
Holy cow! Katie went to bed at 10:30 and slept through until 6:15, ate, went back to sleep at 7 and is still out. She’s always been a good night sleeper, so I hope this continues and is not just the result of a growth spurt.
That moment when you wake up at 6a and realize you didn’t have to get up at 0-dark-30 to feed your baby? Scary as hell…yet priceless.
I finally got no-nap Katie to sleep (on my chest) and we both slept…way past Owen’s wake up time. It’s a good thing he’s SUCH a good boy and stays in his room until we come get him.
We’ve been super super spoiled thus far, with Katie pretty much sleeping through the night since we brought her home!! (In this case, sleeping through the night = one feeding per night around 3-5a where we have to go in and wake her up.) Of course, instructions for newborns are to wake them up every 2-3 hours to eat, but I just couldn’t do that since she was sleeping SOOOO well. So, I conceded to wake her up that often DURING the day, but NOT at night. And things were going well. And then last night was the first night she actually woke up on her own! And then it was still only one feeding! Yay, Katie!
I really need to stop snuggling with my sleeping baby and get some stuff done. Right?
I posed this question on Facebook and got the following responses:
Alicia >>> nope. it is over too soon. snuggle while u can.
P.j. >>> No you don’t
Jennifer >>> Babies don’t keep!
Joe >>> No. No you don’t.
Liz >>> The “stuff” will still be there when Katie doesn’t want to anymore. Enjoy the moments while they are present.
Tracee >>> Nope. Snuggle in
Ann >>> My youngest is 15! No more snuggles with mom, so enjoy it while you can.
Karen >>> So sweet….enjoy every moment!
Sarah >>> Heck no, you don’t! Snuggle, snuggle, snuggle!
Kathy >>> SNUGGLE AS LONG AS YOU CAN!! Stuff will get done later!
Virginia >>> awww
Linda >>> she is too cute to put down!
Margarita >>> nope!
Lisa >>> NO WAY!! cause when they are 13 and 10 the snuggling just doesn’t happen 🙁 ENJOY it!!!
Kristin >>> Nope.
Stephanie >>> Nope! I snuggle just snuggle away ; )
Janet >>> Forget getting anything done. This time goes too quickly, Jennifer.
On our way back from Costco…
