I am sitting here waiting for the baby to go to sleep. I have come to realize that mommies cannot sleep while baby is crying. Tonight is it is driving me insane. I have fed him, medicated him, changed him. And he is in there crying like it is the end of the world. I am done. I am too damn tired to be patient. He just needs to sleep, and I need to sleep. I am over it. I just wish I could sleep.
I think I see another feeding in my near future. What else can I do?
3 comments:
I suggest earplugs. Seriously. I just got some and end up using them almost every night. We live in a tiny condo and Emma's room is right beside us. And, with the earplugs, I really can't hear her!
What we've done, since it was just becoming a habit with our daughter: We closed our door, closed her's, I took some benadryl and turned on the sound machine and ignored her. I checked on her, but after 30 minute she was asleep and slept through the night.
I think they begin to realize they can get what they want by crying. It sucked, but it worked....the next night we had absolutely no issues.
I hope this weekend was better and you were able to catch up on sleep.
And I agree with Jess that there comes a point when they start to use crying to get attention (a prelude to the "I need some water" and such tactics used by toddlers and up?).
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