We've been having some recent difficulties with Our Darling Princess' sleeping routine. She still goes down between 8-8:30pm, but has taken to rising at 5:30. Her rising is accompanied by shouting--not angry shouting or even urgent shouting. Just long, sustained yelling, punctuated by shorter bursts of varying pitch. Like this: "Ahhhhhmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamamamamamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..aaah...maamaammaaa...bababamama...AAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA."
It is patient and implacable. It says, "I don't have anywhere to be, and I can do this for a very long time. Good luck sleeping through it, or waiting me out." So, I've had a week's worth of going to bed at 11 or 12 and getting up to a very frisky girl around 5:30-6 AM. Then she has the gall to pass out around 8 AM for an hour of catch-up sleep, after I'm finally wide awake.
That's all I have today. Just some complaining about being a parent. Classy, huh?
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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remind me to lend you that book. It may not help, but, you may get some ideas.
ReplyDeletesorry about the sleep. That sucks.
I'd definitely like to look at that book, although the crisis seems to have passed. She slept until 7 yesterday and until 8 today!
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