Sleeping
I can't seem to figure out the sleeping thing. My sleeping, the baby's sleeping, etc. For instance - Wednesday night she did great - slept from about 11 til 5:18am. Yay! Then at just after 7 I brought her into bed with me so we could snuggle (read: I just wasn't ready to get up). It was lovely and after about an hour she fell asleep again hard core. Her baby snores are too adorable. I also got some extra winks and woke up feeling great.
But is that too much? Should we be getting up at 7 and starting our day so then she can have a morning nap?
Yesterday she slept almost all afternoon and I feared for her sleeping situation last night but she wasn't interested when I tred to stimulate her (changing diapers, bringing her home from the office, etc).
Sure enough she ate at about 11 and then again at 3 - ugh! She wouldn't go back down at 4 and by 6 I brought her in with me where we slept a little bit.
Am I still supposed to "sleep when the baby sleeps" (as I was doing this morning...) or are we past that and I need to suck it up and get out of bed at a normal time like a normal adult?
And when she is on a normal napping schedule (which I assume she will be...) I need to figure out how to get my work schedule around that... I can set up a pack-and-play at the office but it won't be her crib and it won't be dark...it can be reasonably quiet but there's no window coverings and we will have to...you know, work.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by figuring it all out. I know I tend to make mountains out of molehills but right now that's what I do. I know this is just one thing in a litany of things that we will have to figure out as we go along.
But is that too much? Should we be getting up at 7 and starting our day so then she can have a morning nap?
Yesterday she slept almost all afternoon and I feared for her sleeping situation last night but she wasn't interested when I tred to stimulate her (changing diapers, bringing her home from the office, etc).
Sure enough she ate at about 11 and then again at 3 - ugh! She wouldn't go back down at 4 and by 6 I brought her in with me where we slept a little bit.
Am I still supposed to "sleep when the baby sleeps" (as I was doing this morning...) or are we past that and I need to suck it up and get out of bed at a normal time like a normal adult?
And when she is on a normal napping schedule (which I assume she will be...) I need to figure out how to get my work schedule around that... I can set up a pack-and-play at the office but it won't be her crib and it won't be dark...it can be reasonably quiet but there's no window coverings and we will have to...you know, work.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by figuring it all out. I know I tend to make mountains out of molehills but right now that's what I do. I know this is just one thing in a litany of things that we will have to figure out as we go along.
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Again, part of that was me enabling her, though (when she was older than Dahlia, of course). I mean, it's no one's fault but mine she didn't sleep through the night until 18 months!!
She has never really had a nap schedule and the only thing we can count on is she will go down and wake up at the same time each night/morning. Outside of that we have to wing it which makes it rather difficult when trying to do something during the day... I now go to bed as early as 9:00pm so that I can be ready to get up with her when she wakes up pre-dawn.
And I'm with Laurie. I still take a nap with her sometimes. Despite the need to get some work done around the house I am a much nicer mommy when I have had a chance to catch up on my zzz's.