Bleurgh

[mylescorcoran]

Our kids gave us a difficult night. I was up to Oscar at 12.45 when he woke up and refused to sleep in his Moses basket, but was perfectly happy to sleep in my arms. Twice I attempted to put him down to sleep in the basket and twice his eyes flew open to accuse me of stealing away his lovely body temperature pillow. Eventually sammywol took him into the bed to feed him and he slept. I was awake again around 2.00, but was so bleary I can't recall now why. Rowan woke briefly at 5.20 to complain that her room was too dark, so I got up to her and turned up her light.

Then she woke up properly at 6.00, saying "It's 7 o'clock Dada, time to get up." We really need to work on her reading the clock. I did manage to convince her that it was, in fact, 6.00, and she dozed again until about 6.45, when she got me up for good.

Tea. I need more tea.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Sympathies! Much more disruptive than Wong!

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

Hope the nap helped. Am remembering more clearly just how f**ked up I was when DD was new and we had nights like that all the time.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

You need some chocolate coated coffee beans.

And a talking alarm clock for DD.

And earplugs for you, and perhaps a hot water teddy-bear for Oscar.

Sleep deprivation was the major reason my wife and I decided that it wasn't wise to try for child number 2.

::B::

[mylescorcoran]

Chocolate coated coffee beans, mmm.

The talking alarm clock sounds good and I think we've discussed it before ourselves. Still haven't done anything about it.

I've got earplugs. Never thought about a hot water bottle/teddy bear for Oscar.

We thought sleep dep would stop us from having a second child too, but that wore off, obviously. In truth he's not been too bad so far, and I'm sort of waiting for him to hit a period of real sleep disruption. Rowan was worse, I think.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

I had so much REM sleep deprivation (less than four hours a night for the first 4 weeks after our only child was born)I was starting to have REM intrusions (i.e. visual hallucinations) in the daytime.

Essentially dreaming with my eyes wide open for a few seconds at a time.

I didn't dare drive home after continually seeing crawlies in the periphery of my vision one very bad day for fear of falling asleep at the wheel of my car, and had to call a cab. Luckily for everyone, the Girl-o started to sleep through the night, or I don't know what I would have done.

::B::

[artw.livejournal.com]

I've seen alarm clocks where the bunny rabbit opens its eyes at the time you set. However, have never tried any of that fancy stuff myself.