It's amazing how little sleep one can actually operate on. For the past 2 weeks Sumayah has been acting like a little insomniac. I don't know if its because she's teething, is she hungry, does she have cramps, bad dreams? What? I guess with parenting it's like you the parent are a scientist and the baby is the experiment of cause and effect. You have to experiment by trial and error on the little kid to figure out what the bloody hell is making her wake every hour in the night.
Just when Sumayah established a nice little textbook 'Baby Sense' routine of sleeping after her last feed at around 8 till about 4 am sometimes even 5 am for a feed... suddenly the 'witching hour' as I like to call it enters our lives. It started with her always crying in her sleep at 3 am, only settling with a feed. Whether I last fed her at 8 pm or 12, she always cried out at 3 am! Ok I could deal with that, but then all hell broke loose. Suddenly she only managed to sleep about an hour when the restlessness kicked in. She would cry in her sleep about every 15 to 30 minutes right up unitl the wretched witching hour - 3 am. Except she no longer just wanted to be fed, she now wants to be wide awake and playing - not on her own in her cot of course!So I find myself lying awake in bed at 3 am with the little munchkin playing with my face and hair and trying to chew my chin. No amount of rocking or patting will get her to settle into sleep mode until about 4 am when some magical switch in her brain decides 'ok time to get some sleep'. This is when I finally get about 3 hours of shut eye, till she wakes at about 7 am.
I have tried panado, homeopathic drops, buscopan, teejel, telement drops... any other suggestions? There are some nights when something works and she has an OK night, but I try to repeat everything the same and lo and behold the result is not the same! If it is because she's teething,I really hope they break through soon! Bilaal's teeth all took very long to break through. Each tooth took about a month to come out! And come to think about it he was also a very poor sleeper at this age.
Well here's to hoping things will improve soon...
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Or maybe children just know how to stress their parents. It takes at least twenty years for them to lose this ability so you've probably got a long slog on your hands!
ReplyDeleteLol! You are so right, never thougth of it that way. Most parents have sleepless nights for the rest of their children's lives!
ReplyDeleteUpdate: Last night Sumayah had a lovely sleep. she woke up at 3 for a feed, but then her last feed had been at 8pm so it was a good 7 hour stretch, and afterward she went straight back to sleep in her cot till about 7am. Now the real test is whether she's terasing me or if she can repeat again tonite!
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