So the wonderful part of Hailey getting older is her sleeping through most of the night....there are other wonderful things but this...this is the wonderfulest. If she sleeps, I get to sleep and that equals non-microwaved dinners and clean underwear for everyone! Wahoo!
But here I will make an admission that has been getting mixed reviews...
I let Hailey sleep in bed with me....
Now hear me out. I am still nursing and it is soooooo nice to just roll over and nurse her when she starts to fuss. Thus I avoid the piercing howl of a screaming, empty-bellied baby and don't have to drag my sleepy butt down the hall. I have been trying to get her to sleep in the pack & play next to our bed off and on since she's been born, and we usually can get her to stay there for a good 4 hours at a time, but usually around 1AM she is fussy, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit up with her and lose out on my sleep when I can just as easily tuck her in next to me and hop back on the Dreamland Express. I know, I know... " she'll never learn to be independent.." I don't plan on letting her sleep with us until she's 14, just until she starts having uninterrupted sleep more regularly.
But I will admit the hardest part isn't for her, it's for me. The times when she does sleep in her bed, it's almost a lonely feeling. Yes, I am still comforted with a 200lb man and a 15lb dog (yes, i know... it IS crowded....but mind your business) but something about not having her tiny hand resting across my bosom (yes... BOSOM) leaves me a little empty sometimes. I know I should be rejoicing, and sprawling across the mattress and breaking out the down comforters- and my sleep if more restful sans baby- but after 9 months of always having someone with you, it's hard to kick the habit. You know how some people have conditioned themselves to fall asleep to white noise, or the tv.... well mine is the soft purr of a congested nose followed by an ever softer sigh of one little girl surrendering to the Sand Man.
And if i have to buy her one of these when she's older...so be it...
But here I will make an admission that has been getting mixed reviews...
I let Hailey sleep in bed with me....
Now hear me out. I am still nursing and it is soooooo nice to just roll over and nurse her when she starts to fuss. Thus I avoid the piercing howl of a screaming, empty-bellied baby and don't have to drag my sleepy butt down the hall. I have been trying to get her to sleep in the pack & play next to our bed off and on since she's been born, and we usually can get her to stay there for a good 4 hours at a time, but usually around 1AM she is fussy, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit up with her and lose out on my sleep when I can just as easily tuck her in next to me and hop back on the Dreamland Express. I know, I know... " she'll never learn to be independent.." I don't plan on letting her sleep with us until she's 14, just until she starts having uninterrupted sleep more regularly.
But I will admit the hardest part isn't for her, it's for me. The times when she does sleep in her bed, it's almost a lonely feeling. Yes, I am still comforted with a 200lb man and a 15lb dog (yes, i know... it IS crowded....but mind your business) but something about not having her tiny hand resting across my bosom (yes... BOSOM) leaves me a little empty sometimes. I know I should be rejoicing, and sprawling across the mattress and breaking out the down comforters- and my sleep if more restful sans baby- but after 9 months of always having someone with you, it's hard to kick the habit. You know how some people have conditioned themselves to fall asleep to white noise, or the tv.... well mine is the soft purr of a congested nose followed by an ever softer sigh of one little girl surrendering to the Sand Man.
And if i have to buy her one of these when she's older...so be it...
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