sleep!

I’ve been super busy with this goal, and now the effort is really starting to pay off.
I just knew that Cullyn’s sleeping issues were related to the overall balance of his day, particularly regarding his solid food intake and his separation anxiety (not to mention his breastfeeding/sleep association), so I’ve been working hard to establish awesome eating habits and routines that mean he gets plenty of good food during the daytime hours.
He’s also been playing in his cot for 15 minutes or so each day which has resulted in him having happy associations with his sleeping space, and no longer crying out when he wakes up each morning (instead he just plays until I come get him).

I’ve been following steps and ideas in an utterly inspiring book (The Dream Baby Guide) which I have decided I am going to buy for every mother to be I ever come across. If you are having a baby, or already have a baby/toddler with sleeping problems, buy the book.
Seriously.
I haven’t implemented her full routine (we will once Cullyn has had his shots) and already he has gone from waking up every hour or so each night, to once (sometimes not even once) a night! I only wish I’d found the book sooner!

And as for me, all I can say is, 6 hour sleep stretches are pure bliss. I am reveling in dreams again, and waking up refreshed and ready to be the best mummy I can be…sleep is very very good for the soul.

Big smiles! :) :) :)

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but I wanted to document that last night Cullyn (and thereby I) slept for two six hour stretches consecutively! (With only a little boobie feed in between at 2am)

Squeeeeee!!!!

Ah sleep. How I long for a reasonable ^ANY amount of ^{even semi-quality} sleep. I am just….beyond definable exhaustion right now.

So I am in the planning stages…a new approach to sleep will hopefully see the boy sleeping longer stretches. Without needing a bazillion breastfeeds. All night stretches? I’m giddy at the prospect.

And when the boy sleeps, the mother, she will sleep too.

I will usually get around 3 hours a night and then one night a week just havwe a recharging day where I will actually sleep for 8 – 10 hours. I’ve been told this isn’t healthy, but I get to do so much in the hours i spend awake that its hard to pass up all the activity to just lay somewhere, wasting my life away. hha. “I don’t sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death”
But I really should….

Another this is when I actually have enough sleep I have so much energy that people can’t handle it in every day situations.. haha

Here is my dillema:
Ever since I started highschool AP classes, my sleeping schedual has been entirely thrown off. During the school week I stay up on average until 3am (sometimes later), trying to finish all the homework assignments. (Now, I know it shouldn’t take me that long, but I am somewhat of a perfectionist, and I’m the type of person who would rather get a grade as low as a 68 than a 99 on an assignment- because that one point would drive me crazy). I make up for this by taking 2 hour naps immediatly after school, and then naturally the cycle continues. What’s worse is that during the weekends when I finally have time to catch up on my sleep, my body won’t allow me to do it because it’s used to staying up much later.
How can I get my sleeping patterns back to normal without sacrificing my grades??

Starting now. I’m all messed up (thanks, school!)...I need to be getting up at 7 or 8 am in the morning, but going to bed at 3 or 4 doesn’t give me enough sleep. So I end up napping when I get home and the cycle continues because I can’t get back to sleep until much later.

Okay, it’s 1:30am, no more playing on the computer (even though I had a three hour nap earlier), maybe I’ll read a book until I fall asleep.

I think I’ve hit a new sleep groove. I’ve been pulling the computer plug early & generally going to bed sometime shortly after midnight, reading/talking/nudgingandwinking for a while and then getting close to 8 hours a night, even with a 4am juice-and-snuggle request. Between our sincere noise complaints and their being away more, the neighbour situation has improved, and even Isak’s falling asleep earlier then he previously was.

If I could iron out my beloved’s snoring, I’d be happy as a pig in… a blanket, but I think I’m sleeping well enough (for me) to mark this off for now.

After successfully hitting the sheets just after midnight last night, I realize that doing so can make for some excellent multitasking on several of my more important goals, so I’m doing it again tonight.

Instead of continuing this insane cycle of staying up until 4 in the morning, I’m turning off the computer before midnight & heading to bed. No, really.