I am thankful for a lot of things in my life. For example, my wonderful and awesome husband who deals with our notoriously bad sleeper when he's home during the night; that Colleen is able to sleep by herself (she actually sleeps worse when I try to sleep with her); that for the most part she is a good baby now that teething seems to have begun; for our house that we bought with it's awesome backyard. I really don't have anything of substance to complain about, except for those few selfish things I miss, like sleep! I don't know how rachels_ramblings does/did it, and is a relatively nice mommy in the morning. Right now, it seems, Colleen is following Samuel in being wide awake come 3/4 o'clock in the morning, and taking about an hour to fall back asleep. Whenever she wakes for her second feeding, that's when she decides to be awake. This morning, I've been up since 4:15am after being awoken at least 3 times by my other child. Finally, come 6am, I decide to just get up with her. I put Colleen in the swing while I made coffee and started to make breakfast for myself. Sure enough, within 10 minutes, she was asleep. So I give Tim my breakfast, who is getting ready for work, and take her and myself back to bed. Half an hour later, we are up again.
I honestly can't wait to put her in her own room.
Another thing, I'm starting to be of the mind that once a baby learns to roll, he should also learn to crawl at the same time. That way the baby can get themselves out of predicaments. That being said, babies shouldn't learn to roll until they are at least 6 months old. Colleen sleeps on her crib mattress on the floor next to our bed with a body pillow on one side in case she slips off. Now that she can roll, when she's awake, that's what she does - roll over. And once she's on her back, she does not fall asleep. And I've caught her almost falling into the bookshelf that's at the top of her bed, in addition to her rolling off and landing on the body pillow. The sooner we move, the better.
Thanks for listening. I pray that I'm able to still be a nice mommy today with only a few hours of actually sleep.
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I totally hear you!!! I second the idea that rolling over should be promptly followed by crawling. I go into Samuel's room at least twice in the middle of the night to pull him out from underneath the crib bumpers or to put him back on his tummy. Sigh. I really hope he will figure out how to right himself around on his own soon. I will keep you in prayer this morning as I drink my pot of coffee
, and dream about the day when four of hours of sleep no longer seems like just a luxury.
Jessica Meza
So many blessings in life. I feel the same way. What do I have to really complain about? Not much. I'd love more sleep, but what mom wouldn't? Samuel is still my early bird and loves to be up before 6am. I feel your pain, we've had many mornings like the one you just descibed. Praise God for my wonderful husband. I can't wait to hear that you are in your house. You'll be so happy and thankful. Samuel is rolling and almost crawling and I agree, they should learn both at once. And, fwiw, I am often bleary-eyed and not always as patient and loving as I would like to be. I'm working on it and praying for God's help.
Big hugs your way! We've been there. I think it's just par for the mommy course.
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