Time

I notice that time is a lot different now. I should have more than I do. I just don't know where it goes anymore.
I know that I am more tired lately but then I have a baby so that is normal. Lauren is 5 months now and I can't believe the time is just flying by. I had kind of hoped that by 5 months she would be sleeping better but oh well. She was sleeping better at 3 months. Now she goes to bed at 8 then gets up at 12, 3 and 6. When she gets up at 6 she is up and ready for the day. I had got a couple of days out of her that she slept till 7 but not anymore. I have had numerous people tell me not to feed her when she wakes up and that will teach her to sleep. All that does is make her cry and yell. I can't have her making to much noise cause that wakes Tony up and he needs his sleep if he is working. I have also noticed that when I get her out of her crib and feed her she eats like crazy so she is definitely hungry so I am just going to feed her when she wakes up. I wish she would sleep from 8-3 at least but oh well eventually she will.

She has learned a lot lately. She can roll over both ways now although she doesn't tend to roll onto her stomach but she can do it. She just doesn't like being on her stomach so I can understand why she won't roll that way. She can sit for a few seconds at a time and she likes being in the sitting position when we hold her. If we lay her down to much she tries to sit up. Tony and I have a bet going and he thinks she will be crawling at Christmas so we will have to see. Her head is now completely under her own control and we don't have to hold it anymore. She finally got her neck strength. I think this was what was holding her back from sitting more cause her head kept falling and pulling her over. She laughs out loud a fair amount now and i love hearing it. She also spends most of her time with something in her mouth. If there is no toy available she had her hand or fingers in there. I can't see any teeth yet but there must be something happening cause if she isn't chewing she is crying and once something goes in her mouth to chew on then she is happy. She got my finger the other day and it hurts she chews so hard. She does nap great most days and has about an hour and a half in the morning right after her meds at 9 then naps again around 2 for about 2 hours. We will just keep working on the night time sleeping and maybe at 6 months when we can give her some cereal then she will sleep longer. Until then I will just enjoy my time with her and when I am exhausted at 3am I just keep telling myself that she is the best thing that has happened to me and I love her so much that I just want to spend a little more time with her.

Been a while

It has been a while since I last blogged. I have been so busy lately and yet not busy. I think I finally have a routine down with Lauren so it makes it a bit easier. She used to sleep so much better at night but that changed after we got home from the long weekend in August. I am hoping going away for the labour day long weekend will put her back on track. She now goes to bed at 8 usually. There are some nights that she is just wide awake and won't sleep till about 9:30. Those are the nights that we want to go to bed early. She usually gets up about 2-3 and then again at 5-6 sometimes she goes back to sleep after that but most times not. She then has a 1 hour nap about 9:30 and a 2 hour one at 1. She has started having a half hour one at 6ish as well but this works for us eating dinner. She is very exact with her times as well. I can check on her at 2 minutes to the 2 hours being up and she isn't moving a muscle but 2 minutes later she is wide awake. The only problem I am having is that I think I have a bad habit of feeding her to sleep. I know I shouldn't have done this but I did and now she needs to eat. I am hoping she will grow out of it but if she is hungry then I don't want her to be. She always eats then falls asleep. She empties both sides so I know it isn't just snacking. I just wish she would sleep longer at night. The problem is that she will get up every night at 2 then 5 then 7 and eat so i get used to it. Then all of a sudden she will sleep till 5. I would love for her to sleep right through till 5. Unfortunately I can't. I wake up hugely engorged and leaking everywhere when she does this. If she was going to regularly wake at 5 my body would get used to it but she seems to know when my body is okay and then she starts waking up every 2 hours again. Oh well she is only 4 months old and I am sure will sleep longer later. I was reading an article that when babies start to wake up more during the night and not wanting to sleep it is usually because they are learning something and want to keep learning and then once it has been learned they will sleep lots for a few days afterwards. I hope this is it and she is just trying to learn to completely keep her head up and to roll over.
So far we have only had a few bad night where she wakes up at 2 and figures it is playtime and won't go back to sleep. She also won't be left alone without crying. I am super lucky to have Tony and the last time she did it he got up after I fed her and played with her on her play mat till she fell asleep at 6:30. Then she woke up at 7:30 to eat. He then sent me back to bed again till 9 when she was hungry again. I can handle a couple of nights like that and I was lucky it was a weekend so he did get up. If she did that every night I don't know what i would do. So far I am lucky, I have been told that at 7-8 months they can have a sleep regression again so I will have to see what happens then.

Just over 2 months ago I was wishing I could be complaining of lack of sleep and sore nipples. Now I am and couldn't be happier. On the nights she won't sleep and just cries and cries, I have to remember that this is so much better than it was.