Sleepy baby

[judecorp]

Punk did not want to nap this morning. She fought it HARD, so I took her back out to play for a while but she was clearly over-the-edge tired. So we went back to bed with a huge bottle and she went in the crib for her usual quickie nap (30 minutes). When I picked her up, she was obviously still tired and fell asleep in my arms again but woke up as soon as I put her down in the crib. So I brought her to the futon and laid her on a pillow (bad mama! bad mama!) to help with her congestion and she has been sleeping ever since - she woke up from the mini nap somewhere around 9:45.

About 10 minutes ago I was worried that maybe she smothered on the pillow and went in to check on her... and of course I woke her up! Ugh. She fell back asleep for another 10 minutes but now she is awake. I should go get her before she smothers for real.

Poor little Punkin. I hope she sleeps all this illness away.

Comments

[yip95.livejournal.com]

Dude, she's 7 months old and can roll and crawl. She's not going to smother herself on a pillow. IANAD, and all that, but save your worrying for the important things. I mean, hey, she took a nice, LONG nap - rock on!
Could you raise one end of her crib to help her out during the cold?
How are the nighttimes coming along? Z had two 2+ hr chunks last night. Best night in memory, in that regard. Of course, there was an hour before those chunks that he got awoken and took that hour to fall back to sleep. But whatever...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yes, she can roll and crawl but not when she's swaddled, dude! (Which she of course was.) Otherwise I wouldn't even care.

Speaking of swaddle, did you really want to lend me those big pieces of flannel? I could even reimburse your shipping. I'm desperate here.

And yeah, we planned to raise the crib last night and forgot before Jen left to go grocery shopping and I couldn't do it with the sleeping Punk in my arms. Whoops!

We had a decent night, too. In the crib for a good 3 hours before waking, then fell asleep in the futon and didn't stir until probably 2am, then up for milk somewhere around 5, then up at 6:15 or so.

Hooray for Z! Now if I could just get rid of the swaddle I would be SET!

[yip95.livejournal.com]

oh yeah. duh. mommy-brain made me forget about the swaddle.
Sure, I'll check with the other mom and see if she has a problem lending you the swaddles. we're not even using them for blankets anymore. we tried to use them as "blankies", but he prefers others. One of them isn't hemmed, but it's lasted through washings pretty well for us. (Though we did trim stray threads now and then...and we probably didn't wash them as often as we should have...).

If all is well, I can probably get them into the mail this week.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Cool deal. I really want to break the swaddle habit but every time I try it is a freaking disaster. I tried at naptime and she was chatting away in the crib, and then moving around, and then she started flipping out screaming and I went in there and her face was against the back of the crib and her arm was stuck through the bars. Sheesh! It took so long to get her to sleep after that.

CIO never sounded so good, you know? Argh.

[skatured.livejournal.com]

Does she sleep for exactly 30 minutes? I started keeping track of Morella's sleeping and she takes one long nap in the morning - 4 hours and then she is up every 2-3 hours, with exactly 30 minute naps in between. It's sort of creepy how ... timed they are.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sometimes she does sleep for exactly 30 minutes - one sleep cycle. She wakes and doesn't know how to fall back asleep even though she needs more sleep. Sometimes I can go in and get her back to sleep for another go, but other times she refuses.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Poor cranky kiddo. Would spending time in a steamy bathroom make the congestion better? Also is it possible she's cutting a tooth on top of the nasty cold?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I made Jen take her into the bathroom with her this morning for her shower. It doesn't really help much but it makes me feel better. I sucked a ton of boogs out with the Torture Device and while she was really pissed at me and upset, she got over it and she's a lot clearer now. I think we're nearing the end of the woods, yay!

I don't think there are any more teeth coming. I could be wrong, but there's no indication of teeth. And I think a lot of the things people attribute to teething aren't always teeth related.

As a total off topic comment

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen a copy of the book "My Mother Wears Combat Boots" I will have to loan mine to you when I'm done reading it. You would be totally into the parenting style and advice given in this book. Thank god for a sane perspective on the life of a parent.

Re: As a total off topic comment

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I have not seen this book. I will have to borrow it from you. I will trade. Are you interested in The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It seems to be on its way out. I HOPE.

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Poor baby! I hope she's better soon!