1:30AM, got into bed after a nice time with Mike. 2AM Olive wakes up to eat. 2:30AM Olive spits out her passy (aka binky) and wants it back. 3AM Olive has worked one arm out of her swaddle; I re-swaddle, re-binky and try to sleep again. 4AM Olive has worked BOTH arms out of her swaddle, pulled out her binky, and is talking to herself. 5:30AM still talking to herself (mind you, she would NEVER talk to herself for 1.5 hrs while we're all awake). I decide to take a peak and perhaps re-swaddle and binky; she has a blanket over her head, has wiggled her sleeping wedge to the top of the cradle and wiggled her body to the very bottom (I set her up at the bottom each night with her sleeping wedge to reduce the chances of SID) and has a blankey over her face... and she's just talking.... it's so strange to me that she'll pull a binky out of her mouth but won't pull a blankey off her face. 5:35AM I'm seriously regretting ever introducing swaddling or pacifying. 6AM I break down and let her into my bed, re-swaddled and binkied, so that hopefully she'll go to sleep and let me sleep. Success!! Until 7:45AM when she wakes for breakfast. They tell me someday I'll sleep.... for now I'll hold it as a blessed memory : )
i know it sounds weird, but know that once you're on the other side of this stage, it will seem like it was so long ago and it will seem like it was a fleeting minute. i know it's totally backwards, but i miss my kids getting up at night as bebes (it's not as fun now that they're preschoolers). those were always the best smiles, the best chats, the best snuggles.
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