It crept up on us and we had no idea until it smacked us in our sleep deprived faces...
Our baby wasn't sleeping through the night... again.
I don't know when it happened or even how but suddenly he started waking more often and not going back to sleep as easily.
We were so excited when he started sleeping all the way through the night! We would stumble into our bed and lie there, pretending to watch TV but secretly listening to the monitor for the signs of Chunko climbing out of his bed, ready to rumble.
For a few months, it went like a dream, mostly because we were able to sleep long enough to dream.
Once a week, he might wake up but he would go right back to bed when we told him to.
Then it became a few nights, but we excused it saying that he was just overly tired, or overly excited, or just confused.
Our baby wasn't sleeping through the night... again.
I don't know when it happened or even how but suddenly he started waking more often and not going back to sleep as easily.
We were so excited when he started sleeping all the way through the night! We would stumble into our bed and lie there, pretending to watch TV but secretly listening to the monitor for the signs of Chunko climbing out of his bed, ready to rumble.
For a few months, it went like a dream, mostly because we were able to sleep long enough to dream.
Once a week, he might wake up but he would go right back to bed when we told him to.
Then it became a few nights, but we excused it saying that he was just overly tired, or overly excited, or just confused.
Then it became almost every single night. We kept excusing it with explanations of how it was just a bad week...
Then we realized... EVERY week was a bad week.
We were back into the sleepless rut.
At first he would wake up about 5am and snuggle in with us and we didn't think that was too bad. Then it became a 4am snuggle, which then became a 3am snuggle... And I started waking up with a new baby scarf:
Then we realized... EVERY week was a bad week.
We were back into the sleepless rut.
At first he would wake up about 5am and snuggle in with us and we didn't think that was too bad. Then it became a 4am snuggle, which then became a 3am snuggle... And I started waking up with a new baby scarf:
We started sleeping less and less and suddenly we're back to zombies and Chunko is back in our bed for half of the night.
When we put our foot down and said no more snuggles until 5am, he threw a fit. Which means he screamed for an hour while trying to escape his room. Which also means he would pretend to go back to bed, wait for ten minutes (long enough to lure us into a false sense of sleepiness) and start his screaming fit again.
We are trying new tactics but so far duct taping him to the bed hasn't worked and neither has stringing him from the ceiling fan... Any ideas would be very very very very very much appreciated....
I NEED SLEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
When we put our foot down and said no more snuggles until 5am, he threw a fit. Which means he screamed for an hour while trying to escape his room. Which also means he would pretend to go back to bed, wait for ten minutes (long enough to lure us into a false sense of sleepiness) and start his screaming fit again.
We are trying new tactics but so far duct taping him to the bed hasn't worked and neither has stringing him from the ceiling fan... Any ideas would be very very very very very much appreciated....
I NEED SLEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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