Sleep Regression

I think this is worse than having a newborn. At least with them you know you can feed them and they will usually go back to sleep. It is getting really hard getting up with Lauren lately and it is getting to the point that it can be every 1.5 hours to 2 hours. She will scream and scream till we go in there. We can't leave her because she will hurt herself. The other night we were downstairs when she started so it took us about 10 minutes (I put my pj's on first as I thought I would be in there a while) to get there and by that time she had hit her mouth so bad and split her lip open that I had to wash down the rails of her crib, change her shirt, wash her face and hands and take her stuffed lamb to the wash as it was all covered in blood. Then she slept even worse because she kept waking up looking for her lamb and it wasn't there as he was drying in the hall. I spent most of the night sleeping beside her crib as all the sleep consultants have told us to not take her out of bed and to keep telling her that it is bedtime. We were wondering if it was pain from her teeth as I am sure she has a cavity despite us brushing her teeth twice a day and never giving her a bottle or anything in bed. Then her infant development worker reminded us that this is a normal thing for kids when they are learning a new skill. It is just that most of the kids are over this around one as they are walking by then. Right now she is really working on walking and talking. In the last month her speech has exploded and she is basically walking all the time just unsteady now. She oddly has been doing so much better with both of them since she has been sleeping awful. Infant development thinks that she is working so hard on learning them that she isn't sleeping because there is so much going on in her head right now. I sure hope they are right and that she hurries up and learns it then because I can't do this much longer. I am exhausted.

I am back

I have been gone from here for a few months. I have tried to get in but it wouldn't let me sign in. I finally figured it out today but using a different browser, I also figured out how to get the browser to work on my phone so I could update it while I am at work.

Lots has happened in the last few months. I have had my holidays from work which was great. We went to the lake like usual but this year it was actually sunny and hot the entire time. The only bad thing to come out f it was that Lauren has become an awful sleeper again. Just before we went away we finally got her sleeping from about 7:30-8 at night till 6-6:30 in the morning. It was wonderful. At the lake though for some reason she became a very light sleeper and would wake up at any sound including us rolling over in bed at the other end of the trailer. I can tell you that many times Tony and I would be in so much pain having to move but didn't as we didn't want her to wake up. Now we are home and she wakes up multiple times a night and won't put herself back to sleep. I am so exhausted from fighting her every night to lie down and go back to sleep. Then we are lucky if we can get her to sleep past 5am. Although today she woke at 4 and Tony took her to her bed (she is still in her crib but her bed is in the spare room to be moved soon to her room) and they slept in there till 8. Maybe just maybe she is starting to get back on track. I am hoping once she has her bed in her room that she will sleep better. She has never tried to climb out of her crib but we don't want her to figure that out either. I just need her to sleep as I am so exhausted. She takes a 1 hour nap (that is her choice not mine) and I can usually sleep then too. I would love for the nap to be longer but that is it. It is almost to the minute an hour. If we are busy though she won't have one and then she is a bear at night.

She has also started walking and talking so much more. She can totally walk but it is like she is cautious and scared to fall. I think that is the problem with learning to walk at 2 rather than 1 is that her brain knows how she can get hurt and she doesn't want to. She will walk if we aren't watching her or in the play area at home but down the halls she will hold the wall or want to hold our hands. It is so much easier on my back though to not be carrying her all the time.


I will hopefully have more time to update more as I go and when I am not at work now that I know how to sign back in here.