Jackson has always been a "good sleeper." From pretty early on, he was able to make it through the night. Part of me attributes it to the fact that Mike and I have such an early bedtime. By 7:30, the lights are dimming, the activities are winding down, and we are in the homestretch to calling it a night. I guess, when your parents crash so early, that's all you know. He doesn't know what it likes to be a nighthawk . . .
until last night.
So, I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that, for our sake, he had a bad dream and just needed to be comforted. But now, this 12:30AM wake up has happened twice in the last month, and I'm starting to think that he might be playing the system. "I cry, and she comes to get me." Here's the problem - when you live in a condo with paper thin walls, you can't exactly let your child "cry it out" at night, unless you want to die by the hands of your neighbor the next morning.
So alas, I am in a quandry - there is no comforting him IN the crib, or standing next to the crib, as I sway back and forth between my microsleeping episodes. All I want to do is lay with him in a rocking chair . . .
Everyone says that that's a death sentence. Once you start "rocking" in the middle of the night, it's all downhill slope from there. "They just expect it, and before you know it, you are back to the infant stage of sleep deprivation."
but...ohhhhh last night, he just cuddled up- his soft baby skin nuzzled in the crook of my neck, and we rocked and rocked for an hour. Readjusting and falling asleep again, twitching, and soft baby breaths . . . IS there anything better in this world?
2 comments:
Oh, I hear you. Some nights you just need to have that cuddle and remember when they were tiny infants. They won't always be this small, so take advantage when you can. And they are just so sweet in the middle of the night. When you think you've hit a point of no return with the wake ups/comforting cycle, then crying it out in the apt is a-ok...the neighbors signed on for apt living and have to deal with the ups and downs of it all. That's how I feel anyway... Good luck!!!! xoxo
They go through these things, and then usually get back to their normal sleep patterns. Not to worry.
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