There must have been something in her milk Saturday night, because D ended up sleeping in our bed for the 1st time ever. We do NOT make this a habit, obviously, when she can’t sleep, and usually she will eventually go back to sleep in her crib after waking in the middle of the night.
But for whatever reason she just wasn’t having it Saturday night. Try as we may, she wouldn’t sleep more than about 10 minutes at a stretch back in her crib.
Feel my pain? Here’s an approximate timeline of how our evening went:
8:00-9:00 Trying to get D to settle down, put toys away, and get snuggled in for night-night. R and I were engrossed in Season 1 of Downton Abbey on Netflix, so we wanted her to nestle into the blankets on the couch with R and fall asleep, like she often does. She was restless.
9:00 D finally conked out in his lap, so he carried her into her crib.
9:00-11:00 R and I become addicted to Downton Abbey. Well, I’m addicted. He may have just been humoring me by watching all these, but I think he actually kinda likes it too.
11:00ish D starts crying, so after it becomes clear she’s not just sleep crying R goes in to rock her back to sleep. I hear little cries coming from her room off and on.
11:15 R comes back out to the living room carrying D, who is still not back to sleep. He puts her in the blankets with him on the couch again, but she instantly pops back up and now wants to play after seeing a puppy on the tv. Wrong.
11:15-11:30 I take her back in her room to rock with her turtle projecting stars and moons on the ceiling, and she eventually goes back to sleep.
11:30ish I go to bed.
11:45-12:30 D wakes up 2-3 times, each time I rock her back to sleep. Those “sleeps” last no more than 10 minutes each. I’m getting really tired.
12:30 R goes in to try to get her to sleep and says he’ll just go lie on the couch with her. I know he’ll end up having to spend the rest of the night out there with her if he does, so I say just bring her into our bed. Little did I know that was the beginning of the end of any hope for a restful night.
12:30-6:30 D sleeps between me and R. And coughs in my face all night long. R bails at some point before morning to take up residence on the couch. Lucky. At 6:24 I awaken to a small arm moving back and forth over my forehead, then a finger in my eye. Nice wake up call.
So yeah, that wasn’t the most brilliant solution, and I now know why we haven’t tried it before.
D took 2 naps yesterday for the 1st time in months.
While it’s weird to wake up to that stuff, it’s also kind of warm and fuzzy and gives you that amazing feeling. Puppies on tv are like crack for kids. Sorry it was a rough night for you guys.
@natalie@FourJedis Haha – yes, puppies are definitely her crack!! There was no going back after she saw that. 🙂 Thanks, Natalie.
ugh…hopefully nights like this are few and far between for you guys.
@KatieChapman Thanks, Katie! I have no idea what was going on that night, because the last 2 have been totally fine, back to normal.
I am always amazed at how such tiny little beings can take up so much space in the bed. We always said ours wouldn’t sleep in the bed and she did. Thankfully, she is out of our bed and room now. Except for weekend naps. Then we all snuggle together.
@BlairKernodleScheepers I know! It’s like they magically morph to a huge size when they sleep. Weekend naps snuggled together, though, sound excellent!