Well, at least I slept until 3:30 am this morning, when LG peed in her bed.
I was talking to my mom last night and she said, "What did you do when LG was a baby so you slept through the night?" She slept with me. I dealt with her issues, we went back to bed. I wasn't sleep deprived until LG was 3.5.
I have a theory about this. I think prolactin and all those other yummy new mother hormones make us better able to deal with the loss of sleep that naturally comes with an infant. Mothers of five-year-olds lack this trait. It just makes us cognitively impaired, years after maternity leave.
I have no idea what to do about this. The last time LG went through a major patch of night-waking I ended up on Ambien to re-regulate my sleep. It doesn't matter if *she* goes back to bed; if I wake in that 1-4 am window I have an incredibly difficult time falling back to sleep and often don't. Two nights in a row of this stuff doesn't bode well.
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