Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Upate on Sleep
Emmett woke up EVERY hour last night between 8:40 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., except he slept two hours from 1:30-3:30. Today he is crying all of the time. No fever. Could he be sick? What is going on? I don't think I can survive another 10 days of this after only a 3 night reprieve. I can't think. I just cry with him now.
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Hang in there! Go read Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions. It's about raising a kid as a single mom. She has a line in there about having this desire to swing her baby by his ankles into the wall. It will get better!
I have read OP twice! I am a fan of Anne Lamott. I read Hard Laughter in high school and it was my fave for a while. Here is hoping that this will be funny one day!
We are having sleep issues, too, with Jamie. Weissbluth et al (we use/d Ferber) seem to promise that if you do sleep training once, right, it will "stick," and in our case anyway, it hasn't. So we continue to face challenges and are in fact contemplating another weekend of Ferber soon. The sleep deprivation is just so overwhelming--Andrew & I read this and our hearts went out to you, all 3.
In spite of my issues with Ferber, I did find trying that kind of training enormously empowering and it had some side benefits: we learned that Jamie had to have an earlier bedtime and a regular routine, which we hadn't been sure of before. So that might be one to try if Weissbluth seems too extreme.
Thinking of you both and wishing you a few hours' reprieve--or more--soon.
Thanks, Noel. Weissbluth is def. too radical. We'll probably have to resort to Ferber. We are miserable and so is Emmett. He cries most of the day, too. We have been to the doc and are going again tomorrow, but I don't think he is sick. I feel so bad for him... hopefully this will help everyone.
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