judecorp | Talk It Out

In the past, when the Punker was waking very infrequently from her Fortress of Solitude, she had a distinct pattern of waking up: she would mumble a little bit, then she would start talking a little bit, then she would start yelling, and then she would flop around like a fish and start crying, or she would roll and hit her head on the crib and start crying. So Jen and I would go in there as early as possible, catch her while she was still drowsy, feed her and go back to bed. It was easy.

And then she started to wake up a lot, and each time, we went in swiftly so as not to wake her fully and make her unable to go back to sleep. She would peep, we would wait a minute, go in, reswaddle, do our thing. And it was happening a lot.

Two nights ago, she started talking, and then she started yelling. Jen said, "Are you going to go in there?" I said, "Well, I'm waiting to see if she starts crying." And then... she didn't. She talked for a bit and yelled for a minute and then went to sleep. She still got up an hour later and cried (I fed her) and then up at 5 when I brought her to our bed because I didn't want her to wake Jen with her talking and she wasn't going back to bed.

Well last night she cried first thing in the night (sometimes when she falls asleep really quickly at night, she wakes up after 30 minutes or so and is all "where am I?") and went back to sleep, and then I went to bed in case we had a long night. Jen went in around 10 and couldn't put her back to bed, but somehow I got her into bed at 11:30 and she slept until 3:30! She didn't get up to eat at midnight, it was crazy! So I fed her at 3:30 and she fell asleep but started talking at 4. And yelling. And Jen was about to get up but I said, "No, wait until she starts crying." Jen fell asleep 30 seconds later (How? Through the yelling!) and 5 minutes later, the Punker was asleep, in the crib, until she woke up at 7:15.

I think she is totally figuring it out. That would be flippin' sweet!