In the last two days, this is how the baby has slept:
6:00pm: Goes to sleep. In crib.
12:00am: Wakes up. Cries. Eats.
12:10am: Falls back to sleep. In crib.
6:00am: Wakes up. Cries. Eats.
6:10am: Falls back to sleep. In crib.
8:30am: Wakes up for the day. Cheerfully.
It’s beautiful, right? BEAUTIFUL. However. Layer this in there:
11:00pm- Jen finally goes to bed.
2:00am- Elizabeth wakes up sobbing. Jen lies in bed with her for twenty minutes.
2:20am- Jen falls back to sleep in her own bed.
2:24am- Elizabeth wakes up sobbing again.
3:00am- Elizabeth finally lets Jen leave and goes back to sleep. Finally.
3:01am- Jen has now been awake for too long and fully awake, instead of the one eye slit open and stumbling in the darkness that it takes to feed the baby. Jen cannot sleep.
4:15am- Jen finally gives up on staring into the darkness and puts a television show on her phone, hides it under her pillow so that she won’t wake Matt with the noise, and manages to go back to sleep. (Why I wait this long to do this I have no idea.)
5:45am- Matt’s alarm goes off.
5:55am- Matt’s alarm goes off.
6:05am- Matt’s alarm goes off.
6:15am- Matt’s alarm goes off.
6:25am- Matt’s alarm goes off. Matt actually gets up and gets ready for work this time.
6:45am- Jen returns to sleep.
8:00am- Elizabeth wakes up and screams “MOM”.
How great would it be if I were only dealing with the baby’s sleep and my own?
*Elizabeth has woken up in the middle of the night for more than an hour for about six nights in a row. However, she’s been sick, so PLEASE DEAR LORD I think this is only temporary. Because she does not go back to sleep without Great Intervention and Bargaining. She thinks it is morning when she wakes up.
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This is hideous.
The odd thing is that it is so much better than Elizabeth’s terrible infanthood that I am not even tired.
WHOA. Totally not fair. Fingers crossed that Elizabeth gets better/starts sleeping again soon!
It worked, she slept through the night last night and the night before.
I think you should push Matt out of the bed or at least change the alarm to go off at 6:25. I am tired just reading your post.
On a normal day, I don’t even hear his alarms. It’s just when my sleep is disrupted.
I yell at my husband after the first snooze goes off. No more snoozes. Snoozes are acceptable only if both people are snoozing or if there is only one person in the bed.
NO SNOOZES.
(This sounds terrible. Fingers and toes crossed that Elizabeth’s sleep pattern normalizes.)
(Three cheers for Ryan – what a good sleeper!)
His snooze alarms don’t normally bother me at all. It’s just when I am not sleeping well already because of something else. And he really needs them to wake up, so I don’t mind. Normally.
Ugh. Hope E sleeps better soon.
There is no snoozing allowed in our house. I’m exhausted just reading this.
Ugh, you poor thing, that is awful.
(I did cringe when I saw the Matt’s alarm thing, because I totally do that for work. Although lately I’ve been feeling bad and walking up after the first one then putting it on snooze while laying on the couch.)
Normally it doesn’t bother me at all, so I don’t usually mind.
I’m glad I am not the only one to deal with a snoozing husband, but it is quite possibly the worst possible thing to do to a woman already awake at night tending a baby. If I wasn’t so tired in the morning, I’d do something about it. Like kicking.
My four year old has been coming to bed in the middle of the night and it’s ok some times but not all the time. Like last night, when he woke all of us at 4 and I was awake for another hour or two after that.
Seriously, I am so sorry. So, so, so sorry.
And I won’t tell you what happens when you have a third child.
The third child is magic and all of the children sleep through the night every night and without fail?
Soooo frustrating! And so hard to explain to a child that it’s not time to wake up yet. Hope your sleep improves!
Oh my god. I have nothing else to offer you, except perhaps some hard liquor and something with which to whack Matt’s alarm to pieces.
This is one of my fears with second baby. My 3.5 year old is a poor sleeper. Last night I was up with her from 3:30-4:00. Damn. She’s been sick to but blahhhhh.
Don’t worry! Statistically, second baby is bound to be better! And you are PREPARED. I wasn’t even TIRED after this night because I went through so much Elizabeth infanthood training. (However, expect Anna to be up a LOT when you first bring second baby home. Elizabeth was.)