tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post2486975876569300283..comments2023-10-09T06:53:28.497-07:00Comments on House of Crazy: Sleeping Beauty she ain'tStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17120599934136410856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post-58594194008446910322007-02-15T08:56:00.000-08:002007-02-15T08:56:00.000-08:00Maybe The Peanut and Baby C can get a place togeth...Maybe The Peanut and Baby C can get a place together. This is the third night in a row there's been 3am partying.happypixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601760825101575858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post-81497170118847314542007-02-12T15:58:00.000-08:002007-02-12T15:58:00.000-08:00fuckin' A. here i was, hoping to escape reality f...fuckin' A. here i was, hoping to escape reality for a minute or 2 by reading blogs. *sigh* DD started life off sleeping through the night, and we still managed to break her somehow. now i'm lucky if i get 3 straight hours. DS didn't sleep through the night til he was 1, and i will go crazy if *that* happens again. yesterday i bought "healthy sleep habits, happy baby", and i am following it like a lawyer follows an ambulance. today DD slept for 1 nap, and cried 25 minutes before her 2nd nap. it was not as bad as i feared. time to get tough. good luck, ms. crazy... to both of us, it seems.Imahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09292291841304664258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post-22028807732637107992007-02-11T21:36:00.000-08:002007-02-11T21:36:00.000-08:00This is my life. To a T. Or T-e-s-s-a, I should sa...This is my life. To a T. Or T-e-s-s-a, I should say. Except that she throws a few nights of sleep into the mix every few months, just to fuck with us. Like she's saying: Oh, I *can* sleep through the night. I just choose not to.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09910747227134345866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post-53933686656138136442007-02-11T08:34:00.000-08:002007-02-11T08:34:00.000-08:00My family is the opposite - girl #1 was the high-m...My family is the opposite - girl #1 was the high-maintenance, no-sleep, needed-to-be-held-all-the-time one. Girl #2 was much, much easier, in pretty much every way. But I still know what you're going through.<BR/><BR/>As for the sleep... there just came a point for us (with #1), where we had to explain to her that mama and dada could not visit her in her room at night time anymore. We put some books in her crib, a sippy cup of water, and her favorite stuffed animals (which she threw out, of course), and told her we'd come back when the sun was in the sky. It worked, after a few rough nights. We never thought we'd do the "cry it out" thing - but, like you, we were fucking desperate. And miserable. And she was approaching 2, so we had been sleep deprived for almost 2 years! Getting her on a more regular sleep schedule helped all of us. <BR/><BR/>Footnote: To this day, Hazel has a hard time sleeping, and is up at least once during the night. It goes in waves, though - some months are good, others not so much. Having a set of "middle of the night rules" to stick to really help us, though. Part of me wonders, if we'd established a more regular routine earlier, would she have this trouble? And part of me thinks it's just in her nature...? <BR/><BR/>Bedtime wars. They're torture. I feel for you.Alisynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06205031950915088442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28293267.post-57737043181899231302007-02-09T21:32:00.000-08:002007-02-09T21:32:00.000-08:00Ah yes, that second child always puts the parent w...Ah yes, that second child always puts the parent we are with the first into perspective.<BR/><BR/>I thought I had some magic w/ X because he was a non-violent toddler. If there was any slap down going on at playgroup, he was never on the giving end, only the receiving. Then Miss Z came along--and X has the bite marks to prove it.<BR/><BR/>As they say--we're always perfect parents before having children.Poppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13183116654271832000noreply@blogger.com