One of the questions you get when you have a baby is "Are they sleeping through the night?" I don't know why we all ask this question, or why the news feeds don't have more stories about parents wigging out and killing people after being asked. Maybe sleep dep makes it harder for us to rage out effectively.
HM is not sleeping through the night. However, she's not up every 45 minutes like JT, so I'm still counting this as a win. I am getting a little tired of not sleeping in my own bed, however, so we've begun Operation
BabySnore. The first skirmish, I think, was a loss.I bought special baby bath, formulated to make wee ones want nothing more than to sleep. It has lavender in it, which usually only makes me want to sneeze. I drew HM a bath and doused the water with the magic purple smelly gunk.
What happened next was the opposite of 'getting sleepy.' She loved the stuff. She loved the bath. She kicked and squealed and laughed and did everything but look tired.
I thought maybe it might take some time to settle in, like when you take a Zantac versus taking the pink crap. I toweled her off and took her downstairs, and waited for the sleepiness to settle in.
That purple crap is laced with crack or caffeine or something, because she was wired. She wanted to play. She wanted one on one time. She wanted our unwavering attention.
She did finally conk out... and was up at two, but only took one ounce. So maybe the purple crap did work... just not enough to not inconvenience me. ;)
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