sleep question - is this cruel?

[Pollyanna]

Tara--I think that post just made my day!

I'm so glad!

Kirsty - I had a typo. I usually get 2 naps for a total of 3-4 hours. Of which I spend waaaay too much time here.

Well of course, I would do the same with my time if I had it

I have become a night owl to adapt to my DS. Naturally I am a morning person, but now I stay up late to have a little time with DH, and I sleep in with DS in the morning.

Those long evenings sound sweet Alison! I think it is great for you and your DH to have that much time together so early in the game.

[alison]

It's 8:20am, and my little monkey is still sleeping! Yessssss!!!!

[peggyfromwastate]

congratulations-- did you do anything to get her to sleep so late?

Here's to hoping it's not a fluke...

remember daylight savings time ends, so we'll fall back on Sunday...

Hopefully you'll get to enjoy sleeping in a little bit...

[scrub-jay]

Congrats!! But - shouldn't you be sleeping in too!?

*crossing my fingers for a new habit*

P.S. It is really fun to read some of your posts to my DH - as in: here is the reality we will be facing in the spring!

[alison]

Dh and I are big sleeper-inners. I think it's genetic.

In all seriousness, when we first brought M home from the hospital, she was able to sleep until 10am. And then she'd look over at us with the whole "now what are we gonna do"-look.

I blame just about everything on the nursing Nazis whom I paid big bucks to tell me that I should be getting M up every 2 hours. When I was just too d*** tired, I'd let her sleep for 4 hours and then literally have to take off all her clothes to get her to try to nurse. They turned my baby into a crazy child, I swear. I feel like my kid could be sleeping through the night at this point, if it weren't for these bad habits that she learned. Bah!

[MrsK]

I hope BabyK sleeps as well as M does. If his current patterns are any indication, we'll have no such luck. Seems that the party starts at midnight.

I blame just about everything on the nursing Nazis whom I paid big bucks to tell me that I should be getting M up every 2 hours. When I was just too d*** tired, I'd let her sleep for 4 hours and then literally have to take off all her clothes to get her to try to nurse. They turned my baby into a crazy child, I swear. I feel like my kid could be sleeping through the night at this point, if it weren't for these bad habits that she learned. Bah!

Honey - she's too young to have learned any habits, believe me. She may do this for a few days, then start another growth spurt and start waking at crazy times. It's not a learned behavior - you've got a long time before she starts picking those up.

[alison]

Honey - she's too young to have learned any habits, believe me. She may do this for a few days, then start another growth spurt and start waking at crazy times. It's not a learned behavior - you've got a long time before she starts picking those up.

I just like to be able to blame SOMEONE. And those LCs are an easy target.

M is a great sleeper! She's not a great fall-asleeper. Too bad I didn't have video feed of what she just did over the last half hour. Waaaaaahh waaaaaahhh waaaaaaahhh slobber-over-mom's-shirt waaaaaaaahhh hiccup WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH waaaaaaahhh hiccup wwwwwaaaaahhh fart waaaaahhh hiccup wwaaaaaahhh. And now she's cashed out on her Boppy that she's way too big for.

ETA: yes, she's outgrowing her Boppy and that makes me so sad. I'm a freaking moron! How did this happen? How did I go from not-a-big-fan-of-kids to being absolutely in love with a little stinker?

[alison]

It's almost 9, and M and dh are STILL asleep!!!

I was up at 8, and am enjoying a luxurious morning by myself on the couch!

[Bittersweet]

Yay

[moonlight]

I just like to be able to blame SOMEONE. And those LCs are an easy target.

M is a great sleeper! She's not a great fall-asleeper. Too bad I didn't have video feed of what she just did over the last half hour. Waaaaaahh waaaaaahhh waaaaaaahhh slobber-over-mom's-shirt waaaaaaaahhh hiccup WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH waaaaaaahhh hiccup wwwwwaaaaahhh fart waaaaahhh hiccup wwaaaaaahhh. And now she's cashed out on her Boppy that she's way too big for.

ETA: yes, she's outgrowing her Boppy and that makes me so sad. I'm a freaking moron! How did this happen? How did I go from not-a-big-fan-of-kids to being absolutely in love with a little stinker?

I'd blame them as well. Why the world would anyone suggest waking up a baby to feed if that said baby is sound asleep??? I'm no baby expert, but that sounds way off to me. So very aggravating.

I'm glad she is learning to sleep in again!!

[Auspicious]

I'd blame them as well. Why the world would anyone suggest waking up a baby to feed if that said baby is sound asleep??? I'm no baby expert, but that sounds way off to me. So very aggravating.

I'm glad she is learning to sleep in again!!

So that the baby doesn't (continue to) fail to gain weight. That's how we started off with Cora--I had to set an alarm for every couple of hours all night long because she would never "ask" to eat as a newborn and she lost too much weight in the very beginning. Got her turned around pretty quickly and I honestly don't remember at what age we were given the go-ahead to just let her sleep--pretty early on, though. Newborns are such weird little creatures!

[migirl]

So that the baby doesn't (continue to) fail to gain weight. That's how we started off with Cora--I had to set an alarm for every couple of hours all night long because she would never "ask" to eat as a newborn and she lost too much weight in the very beginning. Got her turned around pretty quickly and I honestly don't remember at what age we were given the go-ahead to just let her sleep--pretty early on, though. Newborns are such weird little creatures!

Yep, I had to do this with both of my kiddos too.

[peggyfromwastate]

Ditto. The *never wake a sleeping baby* rule doesn't kick in until much later. I had to wake up all my babies in the first 8 months or else they'd sleep thru feedings.

It sucks. I usually did the 3-hr spacing for the night feeds, though.

Alison- Here's to hoping she continues sleeping in! I wish my kids had the sleeping in gene... I have it, but apparently it didn't pass on...