Probably as a punishment for writing about my “successful” sleep training experience, we’ve been struck with sleep troubles the last four days. Following a full week of perfect sleeping through the night, on Friday morning I woke up at 4am to a very unhappy baby crying. Now he has been struggling with a brutal cold the last several days, and I was actually stunned that he had done so well sleeping, so I wasn’t totally surprised that he was up, but it is frustrating that we had not had much time to practice the great habits we had just re-learned. Here’s how it went down... On Friday when he woke up, he was so stuffy he could barely breathe through his nose, and he was coughing so much that he couldn’t relax. I felt bad for him, so when replacing his paci and rolling him over like usual didn’t work, I went ahead and got him up. I was getting ready for work and he was just chattering away, but at about 5:00 he was looking pretty tired, so I put him back in bed (by the time I got him to his room he was nearly asleep in my arms), and he slept until 6:15.
Both Saturday and Sunday mornings had similar problems…up at 4ish and not able to get back to sleep for an hour or so. This morning, I was really hoping to try to break this cycle, so when he woke up, I tried really hard just to get him back to sleep. He sounded much better than the previous three mornings (he seemed able to breathe through his nose much better), and I was successful after only about 30 minutes of rocking, but he woke up again at about 5:10 which is a full hour before he should be getting up.
I am kind of at a loss. I think we’re going to have to CIO again after he recovers. I am incredibly hopeful that once his cold/cough/ear infection all clear, he will automatically begin sleeping better again, but in the past that has not been my experience with our sleep challenged little bundle.
On an unrelated note…my period returned (2 weeks and 2 days after my last pump session)! And we had a meeting with the fertility specialist! More on all that later.
About Me
- 30SomethingDINK
- I am a 30-something FORMER DINK (Double Income, No Kids) who welcomed our first child on August 1st, 2011 following many years of infertility. I am married to a wonderful (though somewhat work-a-holic) husband and daddy. This is my journal to help me stay sane through the trials of infertility, pregnancy and motherhood. We have unexplained infertility. After enduring IVF #1 failure, we miraculously became pregnant from FET #1, and we were overjoyed to welcome our little one August 1st of 2011.
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