humm. well i was supposed to start this new schedule on monday and sunday night katie was up from 3-530. so needless to say she was asleep till 9 that morning. monday night she was up till 11 and then woke up 3 times and got up at 830, tuesday night she was up from 1-2 and then from 4-530 and by wed night i just said forget it because tuesday she didn't take any naps and i thought for goodness sake this new schedule can never start till she gets back on waking up around 630... hell i would have even taken 730 but once she is up after 730 in the morning there is no way she will be back down for a nap. hopeless as i was feeling wed afternoon bri arrived home with a little gift from a co-worker. A video monitor! It was awesome! We have never had a monitor, sound or video cus katie's room is next door to ours so i just run in there when i hear her. i never sleep well these days so i hear her every move. As i set up the monitor that evening and told bri that katie had given me no morning nap and 1 hour in the afternoon (oh... and we had put her down for a cat nap from 530-6pm so we could eat dinner and she was being a bear and it was to early to put her down for the night. we haven't done that since she was little) we finally got katie down around 930. ughhhhhh as i watched her in her crib on the monitor i prepared myself for another awful night.
***Really quick i just want to mention the reason i was starting this new schedule was cus katie wasn't sleeping well at night. her day time schedule was great. i loved her sleeping at 11 and then 330ish cus that means from the time she wakes up from her morning nap i have till almost 4 to do things with her. however since she was not sleeping during the night(BUT not usually as bad as this week as been for sure) i felt the need to change it as best as i could. however i want to mention through the last 4 days of hell Katie has consistently gone down between 1030 and 11 and then again either around 330 or 4 for her naps regardless of how awful she slept or when she woke up in the morning that day. so she IS on a schedule its just not the right one.***
Alright now back to our first night with a monitor. I set it up, fed katie, rocked her to sleep as i usually do. (even though i know thats not good.. thats something else i have to change. eventually) i layed her down and she started to cry. now i have let her cry all week cus i just can't handle it. i try and try and try to keep her quiet for bri cus i know he needs to perform the next day but after being up with her from 3-4am quiet i gotta let her cry and work it out on her own. we only let her cry 10 minutes before going in there to check on her and on monday night, the second of hell week it seems she got her leg stuck in the rails and twisted around so when i heard her cry go from a simple whine to a scream i raced in there to find her leg caught. the next night we put the bumper back in. I was feeling so defeated. I no longer wanted to deal with this, I just wanted to curl up in a ball and let her figure it out on her own. 9 months without sleeping will do that to ya. I'm so tired of not sleeping!!!! ahhhhhh say a prayer for me please.
AHHHHHH long story short... sorry, KATIE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT ON WED!!!!! That first night with the monitor i didn't even need it. It was amazing!!!!!!! She woke up at 130 just got a paci but i do not count that as waking up. she didn't even really need it i just woke up and saw her stirring in the monitor so as a preventative from her waking up i just ran in there and handed her the paci on her chest so i didn't have to listen to her scream in a matter of moments.
It was so strange waking up at 630 and looking at the clock. I thought humm did bri get up in the middle of the night with her??? HAHAHAHAH makes me laugh just writing that. he never hears her before I do. If she cried, I was gonna hear it. WOW she slept through the night. How amazing. Hoping she will do it again tonight. but if not, I now have this monitor which makes me feel better about knowing what she is doing in there and not needing to race in to check on her.
Sorry forno photos these last few entries. I'll get there ;)
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