Who Needs Sleep, Anyway?
Fair warning–this will be a whine/rant/complainy post.
Here is a snapshot of my night.
7:30pm– The boys start getting cranky and rubbing their eyes. Looks like time for bed. They’re wanting to nurse, so we did that and once they were done, I put them down for bed. This was about 7:45. Both boys disliked this option and began screaming. Meanwhile, I’m trying to get Lidia to brush her teeth so she can go to bed, too.
7:45-8:00– I wear a path in the carpet going back and forth. Lay Liam down, say goodnight again. Lay Gavin down, say goodnight again. Back out to the bathroom to see that Lidia is doing what she’s supposed to be doing to get ready for bed.
8:00–Get Lidia in bed.
8:15–Finally it’s quiet.
I did some cleaning and such, but then my sister called and so I spent some time talking to her.
at 10pm I decide I better bathe tonight, since I’m sure I won’t be allowed to do so int he AM (good call). Called Adam to say goodnight and I was asleep by 11pm. Not too terrible.
12:30am- Lidia starts crying. This is odd, as she doesn’t wake up very often. I went to check on her and she had quieted by the time I got to her room. I asked her if she was okay and she said yes. She didn’t seem to need anything, so back to bed I went. Took me a long time to fall back to sleep.
1:30am- Liam wakes up. At this point I was thinking I just want him to go back to sleep. Decided to nurse him. Before I was even done nursing him, Gavin woke up. Put Liam to bed, grabbed Gavin to nurse him. He starts messing around and not really nursing anymore (falling asleep?) so I put him back in bed. This was just after 2am.
About 10 minutes later (just as I was dozing off again, of course) Gavin is back up again, screaming. Over the next 2 hours, I was in and out of their room, trying to settle Gavin back down. I am not sure what his problem was. I gave him ibuprofen, I held him for a little bit (and he’d cry the nanosecond I made a move to put him down). Nothing was working.
Finally at 4am, I decided to try nursing him again. At this point he was agitated and cranky and, while he was wanting to nurse, he wasn’t wanting to do it right. He bit me 3 times. OUCH. Finally, he settled in and nursed again and I was able to put him down when he was done.
At around 4:30, I climb back into bed. At this point I’m so riled up I am having a hard time falling back asleep. I finally started dozing when, at 5:15am, Liam was back up. I tried to put him back down twice, but he was having none of that, so in my delirium I just decided to nurse him again. I put him back to bed around 5:30. Took me a while, again, to go back to sleep. Last I looked at the clock, it was 6:30am. At 7am, Liam was up again. He woke up Gavin. Guess I’m getting up now.
I’m so exhausted and the worst thing is, there isn’t a thing I can do about it.
*sigh*
So, yah, I feel like crud and Adam is off getting actual sleep in California. Bah.
Posted: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
Categories: Incoherant Rambling, The Sleep Chronicles, The Twin Journey.
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