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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Sleep regression?

What is happening with our little baby? I am sooooo tired, it is like when he was a newborn! Kekoa has always been a hard baby to put to sleep, but at least at night, once when he was out, he would sleep pretty well until morning. When he woke up at night, he would nurse and then fall right back asleep. The last few weeks he has been waking up in the middle of the night, unable to put himself back to sleep. What does this mean for me? It means putting him in the Moby, in the wee hours of the morning and getting no sleep for myself. I am exhausted! Last night I was up until 4:00 in the morning! He also hasn't been "transferring" well, which means when I try and move him out of the Moby, he wakes up, unable to fall back asleep.
Poor Scott! He gets home so late from work and isn't getting good sleep either. He suggested to look this up, which I did today, and it is called "sleep regression". It is perfectly natural for babies to have these erratic sleep schedules when they are on the verge of learning something new. This makes me feel a little bit better, but boy, I hope tonight is a bit better. What is Kekoa getting ready to do? I have my bets on crawling.
Our friend and fairy godmother, Cassie, next door was a huge help today. Her baby, Ava, is almost 2 years old and great sleeper now. She was sharing with me how hard it was when Ava was 7 months old and lent me some other sleep books to read. Thank you so much Cassie!
Keep your fingers crossed that we get some sleep tonight! :)

In my pj's, but I don't want to sleep!
I would much rather play!


1 comment:

  1. oh, sweetheart. you are such a wonderful mommy. Kekoa is so so lucky. Keep hanging in there. He will come around and take a 3 hour nap someday!

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