Rock-a-Bye
June 25, 2009 by Lisa Beth
Uhg. Brooklyn has started getting up in the middle of the night again. What happened to my baby who never cries and sleeps 12 hours at night? Where did she go? At least she still doesn’t cry. Plus, we had a good run. 5 weeks old until 21 weeks old she gave me my sleep and sanity. Today, however, is a different story. After the sixth night of getting up at least twice at night I had to take this afternoon off from work to nap. That’s how crappy I felt. It’s like I have a newborn again, wanting to chug bottles every 2-3 hours but I HAVE TO GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING. As you can tell, my brain does not function well without my eight hours of beauty rest.
At our last doctor’s appointment (her 4 month checkup), he told us we could start giving her some rice cereal if we wanted. I thought, nah-she sleeps so good and seems to be satisfied with her bottle so I’ll wait. Hmmm, seems I jinxed myself. She is so desperately thirsty in the middle of the night I can hear the sucking noise of her draining the bottle, and it’s LOUD. Then, she goes right back to sleep. This morning around 4 am, when I laid her back down in her crib she smiled at me with her eyes closed. Still so sleepy she couldn’t manage to open her peepers, but mustered up a big grin as if to say, “Thanks mom, I know you are tired, but that was G-O-O-D!” And by 6 am, she wanted more. Looks like there may be some rice creal on the menu tonight for din-din.
Patty on Sun, 28th Jun 2009 12:35 am
I need new pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!