Jenna and Sarah

I know it will take some time to get this sleep thing worked out. She’ll have good nights and bad nights. Last night, she cried for 2 hours (12-2), but it wasn’t a consistent hard cry like it normally is, and she would stop for a few minutes now & then. But she eventually did go to sleep. So that explains why I couldn’t sleep from 12-2, but then why couldn’t I sleep from 2-4? Insomnia is killing me lately. WHY???????? I have way too many of those nights.

I don’t see how anyone with more than 1 kid does it!

Lately I really don’t like taking Jenna to daycare. I never like to drop her off anywhere, but it doesn’t usually phase me as much as it has been. She has been so sweet and cute and fun that I just want to keep her with me all day. The good thing is that she loves it there, and she’s always happy to see Ms. Nora and the other babies she plays with. I’m so glad we like her daycare…I realize now how much I didn’t like the last one she was in.

The past few weeks have been less than ideal with Jenna’s bedtime. Sure, we changed the routine and it’s going very well. The problem isn’t getting her to go to sleep anymore. Now it’s getting her to stay asleep. We haven’t been using the “cry it out” method because she cries for hours. But she has been waking up 3, 4, 5 times a night, and will only go back to sleep when one of us goes in there. We decided Friday that it was the night to let her cry though. We said no matter what (assuming she’s not hurt), we’re going to let her cry. All night, if that’s what it takes, so she will learn that we won’t always go in there if she cries. Well, wouldn’t you know that Friday she decided to sleep for 12 hours straight!!!! 12 glorious sleeping hours without waking up.  We couldn’t BELIEVE she was still sleeping at 8 Saturday morning. WOW! We had to check to make sure she was still breathing. Obviously she was, or this would be a different kind of post.

 Saturday night, she did cry, but only for an hour. I say only, but for her, that’s not much. It was hard, but we didn’t go in there. After about 10 minutes of not crying, I assumed she was lying down and I wanted to see where she was. I peeked in the door, and she was just standing there looking at the door. So back to bed I went, and after a few weak cries, so did she! Around 5, same kind of thing happened, and then last night she slept another 11 hours straight!! I sure do hope this is the new trend. Sleeping Jenna=happy momma.