Monday, 3 May 2010

Sleep, old friend, where did you go?

Since my last post about sleep and going backwards things have got progressively worse. Baby has been pretty unpredictable, sometimes sleeping through and sometimes getting up a couple of times during the night. And all my friends and my friends' friends with babies the same age are all experiencing the same thing. It's weird how none of us heard about this before. You hear about how it gets easier around 3-4 months and you think it's a linear progression but no, they go backwards!!

The last few days I've been doing 2-3 night feeds. Baby used to be difficult to put to bed in the evenings but slept through the night from around 11pm-12am. Then we got that licked and he started going to bed around 8pm, settling himself to sleep like an angel and sleeping through until morning (usually around 7am). Those were some good times! Then he started waking up once a night on some nights. Then he started to wake up more - like 12am, 3am, 6am. And just the last couple of days he has started to be difficult to settle in the evenings again, fighting his bedtimes. Linear regression!

It's a good thing they're so damn cute and loveable. We wouldn't put up with this crap from just anybody. Am I right?

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