My, this got rambly and zzzzz

Before I forget, I should have something up at Parenting tomorrow. It's a letter to the moms at my neighborhood playground. Oh, who am I kidding- it's a note that says PLEASE BE MY BFF! written in pink bubble letters.

Phillip and I are wiped. He worked from home today and THANK GOD because today the vomiting turned into whining and only Daddy can make the whining go away. And Molly didn't seem sick, but she opted out of naps and is STILL not sleeping, even though it is BEDTIME and she is TIRED and did I mention Phillip is working late tomorrow night? HALP.

Jack was so miserable at the thought of being left in the living room with me that several times he slid under the baby gate and down the stairs to Phillip's office without me even noticing.

The bad days are the ones where they don't nap at the same time. This is more important to me than getting eight (or five!) uninterrupted hours at night. Not that I won't complain about not sleeping through the night (PERISH THE THOUGHT!), but it doesn't affect me like no break during the day. Not sleeping through the night makes me tired, no ten minutes to myself during the day incites The Rage.

Today I had just enough time to do the Shred before Molly woke up squawking. So, twenty, thirty minutes? Which isn't too bad, although lately I've been scoring myself an hour of coordinated nap time. I know. I am rocking the coordinated naps people.

I just came back from another 45 minutes of putting Molly to sleep. We didn't do CIO with Jack till he was seven or eight months old, I don't really remember. And it wasn't half as bad as I was expecting it to be, it worked, I kicked myself for not trying it earlier. Of course, we only did it at night and I was still rocking that kid to sleep for his naps till he was over a year old. (SLAPS SELF.) Molly? Not so much. Molly is put down awake unless she falls asleep nursing (which is often). Molly, however, will yell for two minutes and fall asleep. Or she won't yell at all. Or she yells and I realize I better change Jack's diaper before I go get her and by the time I'm done with the diaper she's asleep. Molly is a much MUCH better sleeper than Jack was, but I am also a much better putter-downer-to-sleep-er than I was.

Anyway, this is how I know that CIO isn't going to work with Molly. She knows how to fall asleep on her own. She's been doing it since she was two months old. When Molly cries longer than two or three minutes, something is wrong. And nearly every night she howls and nearly every night I realize she hasn't eaten enough. I just fed her another three ounces (out of a BOTTLE, WOO HOO) and my fussy angry baby turned into Miss Content To Be Left In Her Crib.

I told myself I wouldn't worry about the bottle thing till we'd shifted her off the Frat Boy Sleep Schedule, and it looks like that time has drawn near. I feel like I'm nursing her all the time, but she must not be eating enough. (I am 99% sure this is not a supply problem, btw.) She snacks and snacks, and at night she falls asleep before she's eaten enough. And silly me, I think she's fallen ASLEEP, not fallen asleep until the growling tummy wakes her up. SO ANNOYING. I feel like a bottle would really help me figure out if she's eating enough during the day. Or at least get her to take a bottle or two in the evenings since I think she's less likely to fall asleep eating that way. I've thought about feeding her on a strict schedule, but a lot of times it's the only way to soothe my clingy upset baby. So then I get confused about how many times she's nursed.

Oh, and she's taken the bottle enough times that I don't think it's the specific bottle she doesn't like, just the fact that it's a bottle. Know what I mean?

So that's my new project, I think. Gotta have SOMETHING to obsess about! And gosh, if I can get her to reliably take a bottle I might get to go see a movie again! I really want to see this one. Shut up, you know you want to see it too.

Comments

[lindsay]

Oh no judgment here. I waited for that movie for like a year! And when it got released we drove to the next town over like 45ish mins away to watch it since our theatre only has one movie at a time and it's always gar-bawj. Fingers crossed on the bottle project.

[Charlotte]

Will come out of rom com closet and say, yes, I saw it. Will wait for you to post about it since there is no way in the name of Pete I will admit and/or talk about that film with anyone I know outside of these here Internets.

[Kathleen]

Coordinated naps= my only source of sanity some days. I relish the time they sleep together and my husband can usually guess how much time I actually got to myself when he gets home! :-)

[Jessica]

I want to see that movie, too. I have the book (somebody gave it to me for Christmas one year. I had already been dating my now-husband for 3 months already. I found it pretty humorous at the time.)
I am not ashamed. It looks good. And I am the first to admit I'd rather spend my few me-time hours watching a movie I actually want to see than struggling to stay awake through a movie I think I should see.
Van is very good at putting himself to seep, too. We still do CIO for Charlie. He just doesn't want to go to sleep sometimes. But Van, he'll drift off all by himself. I love it. But I'm not used to it.... ha!