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[judecorp]

My dear, sweet, darling child:

You are tired. You are VERY tired. You slept for crap last night, you napped for crap this morning, and you are screeching the screech of the tired right this very second. You were tired on the couch, and you were tired in the rocking chair, and you were tired in the swaddle, and you were tired on mama's bed, and you are still, in fact, tired this very minute in the swing.

Would you please stop screaming your fool tired head off and, you know, fall asleep? I /promise/ it will get better if you do. Really.

Sincerely,
Mama

p.s. You know how you keep yawning in between screams? Yeah. Tired.

ETA: Mere minutes after this post, I removed her from the swing and she begin to submit to the beautiful gods of sleep. We made a quick venue change to her bedroom so we could rock in the rocking chair and seal the deal. And then, as her eyes beatifically closed and she looked like an angel... monster poo.

So we change the diaper, thereby completely waking up the darling child, reswaddle and commence the whole nightmare again, although with double pressure: 1) to get the exhausted child to sleep, and 2) to be able to rinse that nasty, foul diaper out and put it in the diaper pail.

Suddenly CIO and disposable diapers seem more appealing by the minute. ;)

Comments

[cappucinogrrl.livejournal.com]

Although I know you're fighting it, I can tell when you rub your eyes you're fading fast...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I sing that all the time! :)

[cappucinogrrl.livejournal.com]

Of course you do =)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ain't nothing flashing but the fireflies.

[cappucinogrrl.livejournal.com]

Perfect icon.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

Now I don't feel so alone - our little one has been up since 8:30am...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awwh man, that's rough.

We're in a really bad place as far as sleeping goes. I'm having a hell of a time getting any naps all of a sudden (I think she's just becoming SO aware of what's around that she can't settle) and now nighttime sleep, which had been /awesome/, is declining, too.

I am seriously going bonkers.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

Each day is a different day - I find. Some days and some nights she sleeps well and then some days/ nights not so much... this is turning out to be such a learning process. I don't mind it though, the fact that it is a learning process.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

What's maddening to me is that it seems like at around 4 months, all bets are off. Everything you've learned up to that point gets chucked out the window.

...or maybe that's just my kid. I don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

Not too long and it will get soooooo much better. Seth was moved into his cot (in our room still) at 5 months and got used to his cot for two weeks and then got moved into his nursery at last. We still settled him like usual for a few days, but once he was acclimatised to his room we started sleep training with him because he was really having troubles with night settling for the first time ever. He would go to sleep (after heaps of settling) for about 1.5 hours and then wake up and scream inconsolably for about 2 hours until his 10pm feed and it didn't matter what we did for him he would scream.

So we decided to at least try the sleep training for 2 weeks and if it didn't work then no harm done. We started at 2 minutes, then 5, then 8 minutes etc etc. Now we put him down and start the counter at 10 minutes before going in at first bedtime.

The first night he cried for 1 3/4 hours which he always did anyway when we tried to hold him and soothe him off so really it had made no difference. Next night cried for 1 hour, next night 45 minutes. Now he only cries for about 5 - 9 minutes (at 6pm - 6:30 pm) and sleeps solidly until 10pm, wakes for a feed and nappy change and is sound asleep again until 2:30 am feed and then this morning slept after that until 6:45 am.

He will half wake up between sleep cycles sometimes to grizzle a little bit, but if we leave him for 5 minutes he usually puts himself back to sleep now. We really did wait until he seemed ready for this though - I'm sure babies aren't ready until about 6 months because you can see they don't have the understanding in their mind to cry only for attention and not other reasons. I never ever thought we would do any sleep training, but when I saw that he could cry himself into a state just to stay up with us and no other reason I thought the buck had to stop there as it was taking a visible toll on him and his moods.

Gus is probably not quite ready yet - Seth was very actively growing his mind at 4 months and would also keep himself awake with trying out his new mad skillz he was learning (Look! I can wake my right arm around violently!!!Look! I can roll over in one direction and then get stuck and cry hysterically and when put back into a better position roll over again and get stuck again!!!!) It will pass soon.

xxx Mermaidgrrrl