7/2/2008

Okay, seriously?

Filed under: — Aprille @ 10:54 am

Miles was making so much progress in the sleep department.  He had slept through the night several times and usually only woke up once or twice.

Not lately.

Over the last week or so, he has been waking up every one to two hours every night.  I don’t know what the problem is.  He’s not hungry; he either nurses only a little bit or declines it entirely.  He just can’t seem to stay asleep.  It’s not too difficult to get him back to sleep, but it’s not exactly easy to function during the day when you never really get a full sleep cycle.

We’ve stopped swaddling him due to the heat; that might be part of the problem.  But seriously, we can’t swaddle him forever, and it seemed like a good time to quit.  My friend from playgroup yesterday, whose son is just a little older than Miles, said he went through the same thing right at this age for a couple of weeks.  I really hope it’s just a phase.

I’m thinking about sleeping in another room this weekend and letting Denny deal with him overnight.  Denny is a heavier sleeper than I am, so he might let him fuss more than I do.  I never really let him get to the point of crying; I wake up the second Miles starts thrashing and try to get him calmed down before it becomes a full-on scream-fest.  Maybe if I let him go for a while, he’d settle himself down.  I don’t know.  I’ve been so tired that I’ve been eating crappily and not exercising, which only makes me feel worse.

I got a couple of books from the library yesterday on the topic, but I’m not very far into them yet.  So far, the major focus seems to be getting a baby to sleep, which isn’t really a problem; he falls asleep with no big fuss.  It’s just staying asleep that’s a problem.
I get so annoyed with him, and then after some coffee and a few of his big, sunshiney smiles, I forgive him.

So it goes.

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