Sleep...

Who Needs Sleep?


{ironically, Ella woke up right after I snapped this picture}

Not my child, apparently.

My sweet, practically sleeping through the night baby has been replaced by one who no longer thinks sleep is cool.

I started writing this post last Thursday after Ella's worst night of sleep since she was born. I saw every hour on the clock. This has happened before, but usually to get her back to sleep all I had to do was put her pacifier back in. Not so anymore. It would sometimes take me up to 30 minutes to get her back to sleep. The worst time it was an hour and a half. Lots of rocking and bouncing. It also seemed that every time I would lay her back in her crib, her eyes would pop back open again and I'd have to start the process all over again.

Once I would finally get her back to sleep and in her crib I would lay back down and it would be maybe 15-30 minutes later and she was awake again. Needless to say, I was a walking zombie at work the next day.


The next few nights weren't as bad as Thursday night. She used to go to sleep around 7:30-8pm and wouldn't wake up to eat until 2-3am. Then she would be back down until 7-8am. It.was.glorious. Now her typical sleep pattern is down between 7-8pm. Up a few times until 11-12am. During this time a pacifier is usually all she needs to go back to sleep. Eats around midnight and back to sleep until 2-3am when she eats again. This is when the night gets a little rough. She's usually up about every hour, needing a reinsertion of her pacifier. At around 5am she's ready to eat again where she sleep again until 7-8am. Once again, usually needed her pacifier put back in at least once during this time.

We're pretty exhausted around here and hoping that this not sleeping phase ends soon.