Why is it, that everyone else's infants sleep so well and mine doesn't sleep at all?!!?
Did we just get insanely lucky with Mackenzie and we stupidly expected the same with Madison?
Mackenzie slept through the night at two months old, and loved to sleep..that child STILL loves to sleep. All we would have to do was put her in her crib, wide awake and she would just lay down. No rocking, no needing to nurse, no bottle..no screaming. If she wasn't quite tired yet, she would play for a few minutes and then lay down. When she would wake up she could play in her crib for up to an hour quietly before we even knew she was up! At 2 years old she still takes two naps a day, and sleeps a full 12+ hours at night. She was a perfect sleeper, perfect.
Then we had Madison. This child doesn't know what sleep is and doesn't want anything to do with it.
Some of you may remember our problems with her in the beginning, the fact that she only wanted to sleep on my chest while NURSING and refused her bed..well that was the case until she was like....6 months old or so? Well we slowly got her to sleep in her bed in the room with Mackenzie. We also slowly broke her from needing to nurse into a deep sleep before being in her bed. We can now lay her down and she will go straight to sleep. The problems arise in the middle of the night.
If we lay her down before 9pm, she wakes up around midnight and cries hysterically and can't be soothed. Regardless of what time she goes to bed at night, she will still wake up at 7:30-8am. She still wakes up every two hours (exactly) to nurse...just like a newborn.
Yes I know she doesn't need to nurse and we can let her cry it out and she will get use to it after a couple nights..or so i've been told. If that's the case then someone please explain to me why my husband has slept at my mothers every night, for the past two weeks while we tried this out, unsuccessfully. (he slept over there because despite what anyone says, he DOES need his sleep to be able to work the next day, he does manual labor) I have tried this out every night for the past two weeks and it doesn't get easier as the nights pass, she still cries at the top of her lungs until she vomits or wakes her sister, and this can last for hours.
Last night for example, she went to bed around 8:45pm, and around 11:30 woke up to nurse, I nursed her, put her back in her bed at 11:45pm and she cried until 1:45am when Tim and I went in the room to get the girls because they were crying hysterically. Madison woke up Mackenzie who was scared and started crying as well. I don't see this getting any easier..and I honestly am at my wits end. I am emotionally and physically drained.
I have had more than a handful of people tell me she has me "trained" and I need to "train her"...is she a child or a damn dog? Seriously?! Train her?! They say she has me 'trained' because she cries and I go to her...uh..I think that's called being a parent and not seeing the need to let them cry their effing lungs out just because it inconveniences me. I will go to my child when they cry..even if they are okay, because they are crying for me, they want/need me..and as a parent it is my responsibility and privledge to go comfort them.
I guess I'm just looking for support..and someone to tell me there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
walking...talking..and bubbles
Madison is walking!!!! Not like a speed walker or anything but she can take more than a handful of steps before falling down. It's awesome. She started trying to take steps this past weekend (Sep 27th and 28th) and can now walk about 5-7 steps before falling. She has also cut her second top tooth, so she now has four teeth!
Madison has also started to wake up between 3-5 in the morning for a couple hours, it's not so fun. I know they say that happens sometimes when they are cutting teeth or learning new things..I wish it'd stop. I barely get any sleep as it is, I feel like I still have a newborn...without those long naps in the middle of the day.
She is such a hoot, and so much fun, I love this little girl to pieces. It makes me miss when Mackenzie was this age, where you could just lay her on the floor and blow raspberries on her stomach and she couldn't do anything about it but give you a deep belly laugh. If you tried that with Mackenzie now she'd start scream/laughing and yell "No mommy stop!"
My little duck
Speaking of the little monster also known as Mackenzie, that girl is getting sooo big. Sometimes she just amazes her daddy and I with the things she says and does. Her vocabulary is getting much easier to understand which sometimes isn't a good thing, especially becuase it's expanding. The other day we were sitting on the couch with my grandma and Mackenzie dopped a toy and said "oh damn". We all just died laughing as my Grandma tried to ask my mother what she had just said. She is starting to become a little parrot and we are having to watch the words we say around her.
She is also showing us that she will probably be the expensive daughter. She loves shoes, purses and clothes. But she is also incredibly smart and if you read a book ONE time to her, she can read it to her sister..well some of it, the Mackenzie version. She can also count to 7..sometimes skipping four, but hey she normally gets it right! She has really good balance as well, so we have been thinking about putting her in dance, gymnastics or possibly horseback riding since she shows such a strong interest in horses.
She is just getting so big and its a bunch of fun to watch her become this little girl instead of a toddler.
About Tim and I.
Tim just purchesed his Uniform Plumbing Code Study Guide and Book for $200 some odd bucks. This study guide is a must for every apprentice, journeyman, contractor and inspector. It contains questions and answers on every chapter of the UPC, plus nine practice exams, including plumbing layout drawings. He is so excited about it because in January he will have enough hours to take his test to move up from being an apprentice to a tradesman, which means he gets his own truck and he starts making the big bucks. I am seriously so proud of him it's not even funny. He will have to study his ass off to be ready..last night he studied for 3 hours before bed, which is a big thing, because he's never studied in his life!
Now about me...I don't even know why I update about me, nothing is ever different for me same old thing every time. ha. I am cruising craigslist today looking for a simple part time job, maybe doing receptionist work since I enjoy working on computers and I can work a telephone. ;) But that's all that's really new. Oh and I sold the majority of my infant furniture this past weekend at a yard sale. I made 56 bucks, yay.
Oh and to those of you that saw my bulletin about my blonde moment..apparently it's a very common thing and I'm not alone! I had so many people write me and tell me they had done the same thing, some of them multiple times! I was also asked to take a picture...well I did, but only after cleaning up the kitchen and getting rid of alot of the bubbles...so here is a picture with a couple left over. There is about two inches in the bottom of the dishwasher in this picture. This was taken on the last time I ran the dishwasher...yes I had to run it MULTIPLE times.
Madison has also started to wake up between 3-5 in the morning for a couple hours, it's not so fun. I know they say that happens sometimes when they are cutting teeth or learning new things..I wish it'd stop. I barely get any sleep as it is, I feel like I still have a newborn...without those long naps in the middle of the day.
She is such a hoot, and so much fun, I love this little girl to pieces. It makes me miss when Mackenzie was this age, where you could just lay her on the floor and blow raspberries on her stomach and she couldn't do anything about it but give you a deep belly laugh. If you tried that with Mackenzie now she'd start scream/laughing and yell "No mommy stop!"
My little duck
Speaking of the little monster also known as Mackenzie, that girl is getting sooo big. Sometimes she just amazes her daddy and I with the things she says and does. Her vocabulary is getting much easier to understand which sometimes isn't a good thing, especially becuase it's expanding. The other day we were sitting on the couch with my grandma and Mackenzie dopped a toy and said "oh damn". We all just died laughing as my Grandma tried to ask my mother what she had just said. She is starting to become a little parrot and we are having to watch the words we say around her.
She is also showing us that she will probably be the expensive daughter. She loves shoes, purses and clothes. But she is also incredibly smart and if you read a book ONE time to her, she can read it to her sister..well some of it, the Mackenzie version. She can also count to 7..sometimes skipping four, but hey she normally gets it right! She has really good balance as well, so we have been thinking about putting her in dance, gymnastics or possibly horseback riding since she shows such a strong interest in horses.
She is just getting so big and its a bunch of fun to watch her become this little girl instead of a toddler.
About Tim and I.
Tim just purchesed his Uniform Plumbing Code Study Guide and Book for $200 some odd bucks. This study guide is a must for every apprentice, journeyman, contractor and inspector. It contains questions and answers on every chapter of the UPC, plus nine practice exams, including plumbing layout drawings. He is so excited about it because in January he will have enough hours to take his test to move up from being an apprentice to a tradesman, which means he gets his own truck and he starts making the big bucks. I am seriously so proud of him it's not even funny. He will have to study his ass off to be ready..last night he studied for 3 hours before bed, which is a big thing, because he's never studied in his life!
Now about me...I don't even know why I update about me, nothing is ever different for me same old thing every time. ha. I am cruising craigslist today looking for a simple part time job, maybe doing receptionist work since I enjoy working on computers and I can work a telephone. ;) But that's all that's really new. Oh and I sold the majority of my infant furniture this past weekend at a yard sale. I made 56 bucks, yay.
Oh and to those of you that saw my bulletin about my blonde moment..apparently it's a very common thing and I'm not alone! I had so many people write me and tell me they had done the same thing, some of them multiple times! I was also asked to take a picture...well I did, but only after cleaning up the kitchen and getting rid of alot of the bubbles...so here is a picture with a couple left over. There is about two inches in the bottom of the dishwasher in this picture. This was taken on the last time I ran the dishwasher...yes I had to run it MULTIPLE times.
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