Ladies (any of you who are still reading this saga
), I really need a pep talk.
This was my night:
7:45 Iris in bed and asleep
8:00 Lilah in bed and asleep (she didn't nap in the afternoon)
9:30 DH and I in bed and asleep (so far so good)
1:00 I woke up to pee
(After my first pregnancy, Ican't ever make it all night anymore)
1:30 Lilah woke up crying that she wanted some water (she almost always has NWings when she skips her nap)
2:30 Iris wakes up and starts playing (I messed up and let her nap too much yesterday)
2:30-4:00 I doze on and off while Iris continues playing in the crib
4:00 Iris is still up and decides she's done playing and starts crying. DH goes in and she's once again gotten her arm out of the neck hole of her pajamas.
He stays with her a bit to calm her and then leaves her to it.
4:00-5:00 she fusses on and off; I fight with DH about how I think she's hungry and I should just go nurse her
5:00 I go in to nurse her, but she's lying down, fussing, not up and crying, so I leave
5:05 Silence from their room; Iris is finally asleep
5:05-5:20 I toss and turn, completely awake though exhausted, and anxious
5:20-5:40 I go out to the couch and cry because I don't see things improving and we're all getting even less sleep than we were before, and I don't see an end in sight.
5:40 My crying finally calmed me down, and I go back to bed
6:00 I finally fall asleep again
7:15 The bloody cat wakes me up
7:30 Iris is up, I nurse her, and she doesn't even drain one breast-- it's been 12 hours since she last ate!
So, I logged a toatl of 6 hours and 15 minutes of extremely broken sleep (and I'm a nine-hours-a-night kind of girl), and I don't see how it's going to get any better. I did wake up more positive than I was at 5 am, and have noted the following:
-Iris is now going down on her own consistently and quickly at naps and bedtime (it was about 80% of the time before)
-She's falling back asleep without nursing and in her own bed (but it's taking an hour or more!)
-She did go 12 whole hours last night without nursing (a record for her)
Meanwhile, now not only am I sleep deprived, but DH and even Lilah are suffering now that we started this (Lilah's sleep is fitful on nights she doesn't nap, which I can't control, but it's even more fitful if she doesn't nap and Iris is up fussing). I feel completely exhausted and barely able to function, I'm grumpy with Lilah and DH, and I can't forsee the end of it. I guess I have to give the plan a full 2 weeks before we can really see if it's working, but in the meantime, I hope nobody crashes the car, or I don't have a nervous breakdown.
Anyway, that was night 5, so "only" 9 more to go to two weeks.