Last night, our wonderful daughter Neve decided that she no longer liked her now normal schedule of two naps a day and a nice long sleep straight through the night until 6 - 7 am in the morning. More "boring" baby stuff below, if you care to read it:
At approx. 2am, she starts getting talkative and begins to get frustrated (her voice starts raising, etc. - fairly normal). As is normal for these situations, I go into her room to settle her down and put on her ocean sounds to soothe her to sleep. Am I ever surprised when I see her sitting up, staring right at me, with that "Time to get up!" face! She gets her pacifier, I turn on the ocean sounds, and step out of the room.
Within minutes, major crying jag begins. She is not happy at all with this turn of events - she is ready to get up now. My wife and I are thinking "like hell", and proceed to spend the next hour and a half getting her back to sleep (finally culminating in letting her cry for nearly 20 minutes (starting a little before 3am) once we've changed her diaper, made sure she is feeling alright, etc.).
You know, after a few months, you start to expect those straight through the night sleeping habits - we put our time in being up all hours of the night, damnit. She owes us! *grin*
Posted by Mark at August 18, 2003 12:45 PM | TrackBack