- Sleep situation (mine) is so bad that I emailed my primary in the middle of the night. She put me on Restoril, which I don't think is going to work. Night #1 I didn't fall asleep until three hours after I'd taken it, and only then when I combined it with benadryl, which probably isn't the smartest thing. Night #2 I managed to fall asleep relatively easily but still woke at 4:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. And although it doesn't make me tired enough to SLEEP I still have a sedative hangover the next day. Oh, and you're not really supposed to use it when nursing. But I figure Tiny Boy's livelihood depends more on having a sane mother at this point.
- The morning after the aforementioned (maybe that was Thursday?) I dropped kids off, came home and took ambien at 9:00 am, which bought me three hours of sleep. And then I went to work.
- I think the boy needs to be moved out of his crib. He can climb it. Damn. He's way too little for a bed.
- We went 36 hrs without nursing. He might have gone longer except it was bedtime and the options were let him nurse or get out the breast pump.
- Absolutely insane and unbloggable situation at work. I'm sure that's not helping my state of mind. Oh my word.
- Our house is a disaster. I "should" be cleaning the floors and putting stuff away right now but I am going to try to nap. Ha.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Random Bullets of This Week Sucks
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Condolences on the crib. The Bean climbed out of his earlier than many kids (but later than I'd feared). The transition was...not as terrible as I'd feared. Not great, but it's not like we had great sleep before, you know? "I am going to help you keep your body in your bed" was heard at bedtime A LOT for a while there. And we still have a big pillow on the floor against falling injuries.
ReplyDeleteCondolences on the sleep, too. There is more than one reason I am grateful for the unisom I am officially taking for nausea.
I am so sorry for the continued sleep issues. Really hoping they get better for the both of you soon!
ReplyDeleteOh man. I'm so sorry about all of it. I am feeling overwhelmed and freaked out just with normal semester shit, so ...BLEEACH. May this week be a million times better.
ReplyDeleteWow. The sleep thing sounds like it's beyond awful. Have you thought of a sleep study for TB (since if he can start sleeping better, maybe mama can too). Not sure if you have a pediatric sleep specialist where you are. In Toronto, there is a guru (Colin Shapiro), which you may want to contact for ideas on where to go in your area. Here's the link to his clinic.
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Augusta, I thought a lot about a sleep study about a year ago, because it seemed he woke EVERY sleep cycle. I do think there are physical, not exclusively, behavioral issues involved because as they've been dealt with (milk allergy/reflux, chronic ear pain, teething) he's gotten better. I think mostly what we have left is a hungry guy who has bad sleep habits. But I might ask his ped about baby melatonin at least.
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of us. You know I don't begrudge you a sleeping girl, and absolutely if you can get 12 hrs that's better than 10!