Baby Girl, you really need to go back to sleep now. You've been having a rough few days when it comes to sleep. Maybe you can sense the impending move? Maybe it's the weather? Or your gums? Or that icky ringworm on your arm and leg? Or gas? I don't know, and I bet you don't either. But it means you aren't napping well. You're waking up startled and unhappy. Even if I nap with you, you don't sleep as long as you want to. And between when I put you to bed at 7:30 (the second time, since the first time you had hardly left my arms before you were screaming) and when you asked to be fed at 11, you woke up three times. You went back to sleep on your own each time (after a few minutes of screaming), but that's a lot more waking up than usual. As I was telling your Busia this evening, you are not the heavy sleeper you were three months ago. You wake up much too easily now... and don't go to sleep as easily either.
You have a full tummy, a clean diaper, and you were asleep when I walked away from your crib. And yet, you're crying. Unhappy, whimpering, frustration... this is what's coming from the bedroom right now.1 You've been almost asleep 4 times. You stop crying, you nod off, I think it's safe to go take my shower and go to bed... and then there's more screaming.
I know that I'll give in and pick you back up and snuggle you into bed with me if you're still crying in 10 minutes. But I hope you don't know that. Because if you know that... then this will never end... :(
Have I mentioned how much I'm looking forward to moving into a studio hotel suite on Tuesday? No doors, no walls between us when it's your bedtime and I'm still awake and your father isn't even home yet? No? I haven't mentioned that? Huh. Maybe because I'm not.....
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1 For those of you who wish to judge - you do things your way, I do them mine. I hate this, but the alternatives are not a better option for us.
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