At about 6:30 this morning, I was in bed with Emily and Dan, wide awake. Emily wanted her pj pant legs pulled down to her ankles and her shirt sleeves pulled to her wrists. She was wide awake as well. About 20 minutes earlier, I had decided I needed more space than 18 inches on the edge of the bed, and had taken Emily back to her bed and dumped her into her bed, not too gently, waking her up. I stuffed her monkey by her head, told her I had to go potty, and left. About when I was washing my hands, she had found me, and we went back to my bed. Now her monkey was stuffed under my chin (she also made sure the monkey got lots of blanket) and she was tossing and turning, and making sure "her" little pillow had been rescued from Daddy and stuffed back between our pillows.
About 4 AM she had woken up and climbed into bed with me. I had put her to bed about 11, after she had woken up about 10:30 and climbed into bed with me & promptly fallen back asleep. About 9 PM we had started rocking her to sleep, first me, and then Dan (after he took her upstairs for a bedtime snack). About 10 PM she was snoring soundly, and I had tucked her into bed.
So at 6 AM I was out of gentle tuckings into bed, and into bed she plopped. And woke up, not that she minded terribly; no loud crying ensued, just a wriggle out of bed with her monkey and off to find mommy.
Not every night is like this; sometimes she sleeps in her bed all night, or nearly all night, only coming into our room in the early morning. And she is used to falling asleep in our bed--when we first moved to Michigan she refused to sleep in her room.
I feel like I've written a post similar to this a couple times.
She is almost two, and her baby sister will be here in a few months. So, realistically, she won't be able to claim the middle of our bed forever. We'll get back into a routine, and Emily will stay in her bed (maybe) and we'll start all over again with her sister.
Or maybe I'll just sleep on the floor in the nursery, since that keeps Emily in her room, and the new baby will want to eat every two hours anyway. Ha ha, just kidding. Maybe.
I didn't know you were expecting! Congrats! They will be such friends! -Zara
ReplyDeleteI am so not going to lie to you, there have been nights when I have given up on putting Hallie back in her bad (just when she's sick, but for some reason that's been a lot this winter) and I have just gone and slept in her bed. I let her and Devin duke it out in ours.
ReplyDeleteSigh. I wish the problem with my not sleeping were Jill. She can't get out of her crib, so that would be easy to solve. (Although she is moving into a toddler bed soon, so we'll see what happens.) I wake up every two hours just because I'm uncomfortable. Sigh. And then the baby will come, and I'll still wake up over and over again, because he'll be hungry. No rest for weary moms for a while.
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