Okay so Kellylynn has never been the best sleeper...at least not in comparison to her sister...actually not in comparison to any baby! I realize that part of that is my fault, I think when Olivia started showing such strong preferences for Bryce that I felt like I needed to make my second one love me best! Which happened so far, but meant that she is having a very hard time going to sleep without me since that was our main bonding time.
Anyway, she is almost 9 months old now and still not sleeping through the night. In fact, for the past week or 2 she has been going to bed at 7-7:30pm and waking up again at 10:30pm. For a few nights it worked to just go in and lay her back down on the bed with her soother, it took a couple times but she would go back to sleep. Then last night, everything CHANGED!
She woke up at 10:30, I went to lay her back down and she was up again before i could get out of the room. So I tried again, nope, not the second time, third time, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh time either. Really, what the heck do I do now?? So I picked her up and fed her till she went back to sleep, but to my digust/discouragement/devestation, as soon as she finished eating she opened her eyes and started SMILING at me! Smiling, playing with my hair, the buttons on my shirt!! Never a good sign when you are wanting your child to go to sleep. So, hoping for the best, I just put her back in bed...yeah, that was not a good move..talk about an angry child. The rest of the night consisted of Bryce and I taking turns rocking with her till she started to dose off, attempting to put her down and having her scream at us all over again.
I think saying we got 3 hours of sleep is an exageration of how much sleep we actually got. It was awful! You know that point when you start to have thoughts and feelings that you feel guilty about, even though you would NEVER EVER act on them EVER? Yeah those feelings were the ones going through my mind. It was terrible! I was actually afraid for my childs life for a minute.
At 5:30am I finally got her back to sleep and she was up at 8am. Morning nap time came and went, afternoon nap time came...I tried to put her down but was so frustrated with her that I just could not make it work. Bryce took her and rocked her for a good half an hour before she finally went to sleep...the whole time they rocked she screamed herself to sleep. Right then we decided that tonight would be night she would learn to put herself to sleep...AGAIN! I feel like I have taught her this before, but then she was sick, and then she had a nasty cough etc etc etc etc!
It's been an hour and a half, she is starting to taper off with the crying, I want to go check on her but at the same time I know if she sees me it will just start all over again. So we are occupying ourselves watching Dispicable Me, bryce is playing WOW and we are just waiting. Thankfully Olivia is a very heavy, sound sleeper! She has slept through the whole thing!
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