Recently I have not been happy to go to bed. Even when I’m peacefully sleeping after nursing, I wake up the instant I am put in my crib. I usually go to sleep within 10 minutes, but not without crying my head of first. It is hard to believe that there was a time when I went to bed quietly without complaint.
I’ve also been waking up in the middle of the night as well. I used to peer through the mesh to see if Mommy and Daddy were in bed and then cry to get them to pick me up. To stop me from noticing they are in bed, Daddy put a curtain across the mesh. If I don’t see them, I don’t feel the need to wake up and call them, then I go back to sleep.
But now I figured out a way to step up against the edge of my crib and basically do a chin-up over the edge to see them. It freaked them out the first time I did it because a head appeared over the edge of the crib in the middle of the night.
Mommy and Daddy wanted me to get a full night’s sleep so they even tried sleeping in the living room so that I would have the bedroom all to myself and not wake up. It worked because even if I woke up I would put myself back to sleep. But then I would not be in as good a mood, even with the longer undisturbed sleep.
These days, if I wake up in the middle of the night having spotted Mommy and Daddy in bed, I will not put myself back to sleep no matter how long they wait and see if I’ll go back to sleep. So, one of them will now just take me out to the living room to sleep so that the other parent will be able to get an hour or two more of much needed sleep. Once I’m out in the living room, I sleep quite well on the couch with Mommy or Daddy, even though I may toss and turn into weird positions. The picture above is of me having fallen asleep in between Mommy’s lower legs.
We know this is not the ideal sleeping arrangement, but we are just trying to get some sleep. Eventually, I’ll be able to sleep longer without interruptions and also allow Mommy and Daddy to have undisturbed sleep. But for now, this is the best solution for our family.