This post is exactly the reason I haven't posted in so long. Admittedly I didn't realize I took a four plus month hiatus, but lack of sleep makes all the time blur together. In fact, the only reason I can blog tonight is that we are on a roll - finally - in the sleep department. I actually started this post last month, but literally fell asleep in the middle of typing with the computer on my lap. But now that I've sat down again I figured why post - date it? I'll just add the disclaimers where applicable and put it out there in its original form:
I am taking a risk starting this post later than planned because Lydia's "bedtime" was a 90 minute process tonight. (See above for result of said risk taking). Ok, not just tonight (still true!) - it has been every night lately. Choosing PJs, bargaining for stories, debating whose turn it is to brush teeth, which potty to use, blah blah blah. Tonight even included an extra bedtime prayer (which of course can't be refused): "Dear Jesus, I'd like a new clock. Like a purple one maybe or something? Or pink or something? My old one is old. Amen" I don't know if she thinks this great new clock won't include a bedtime, but she is a master at stalling.
Will is now 9 1/2 months old actual - 7 1/2 months adjusted (when this was first typed a month ago - more to come on his newest accomplishments @ 10 1/2 months old actual in a new post yet to come). I missed posting at his 6 month mark. He did have some motor delays and early intervention evaluations, but wasn't "far enough behind" to qualify for services. Even since those evaluation we've seen him start catching up even more. He has started eating solids and has yet to try something he dislikes. He is gradually moving up the growth chart - starting out not even registering on it for quite a while. Then up to the 3rd percentile, the 8th, and at his last well check (9 months) he was just above the 15th percentile. It is sometimes hard to believe this little guy was measuring over the 95th percentile when I was pregnant; but that just goes to show how much growing he missed out on those last two months and is still doing his best to catch up.
He is such a happy boy, and we've been hitting all milestones around the adjusted time frame. The only thing I really wish we'd been able to get the hang of is sleeping through the night. I know Lydia was sleeping through around the 6 month mark, and granted it if we look at it from Will's adjusted age he isn't that far off, but I am really feeling it. A few weeks ago my favorite delivery came again - bulk coffee (Kcups I buy online) and my husband asked in disbelief about how much coffee I've ordered. Since I average 3-4 16 oz cups a day (all before 5pm) he sweetly he declares that much can't be good for me...to which I snark "neither is sleeping in only 2-3 hr blocks for over the past year." That's right - since I spotted to some degree the majority of my pregnancy, and it always happened overnight, I really haven't slept through the night since the early days of my pregnancy = Jan/Feb 2013! Now I'm not really complaining - just don't mess with my coffee!
On a related note - I will never understand why "they" in the baby book/website world consider 5 sequential hours to qualify a baby "sleeping through the night." Let us be clear - the likelihood of those 5 hours lining up with any adult timing of 5 hours is soooooooo not likely! If we really go by that definition, then sure Will has been sleeping "through the night" for months now - except those 5 hours happen between 7pm and midnight. May I refer you to the paragraph on getting Lydia to bed? Then add in cleaning up chaos/prepping for the next day chaos and that equation puts mommy in bed outside the hours of 7pm-midnight. You do that math. I can tell you it does not equal sleep!
Around the time this post was started we did have a few (literally 3 I think) nights in a row where Will slept all night. It felt glorious - until he went back to frequent wake ups for another few weeks. That was worse than never getting a glimpse at a full nights sleep in the first place - a teaser of what would never be realized again! Ok that might be dramatic, but sleep deprivation is a form of torture. I can happily say though that we are back on the sleep band wagon, which allows me to get this posted. The latest modification of sleep habits includes getting up for the day at 5 am, and obviously babies don't acknowledge weekends. But at least that gives me a chance at stringing 5 or 6 hours together of blessed slumber. Now I even fit the definition of "sleeping though the night!" And it feels sooooo good. And still in the hazy moments of every early wake up call, when Will gives me that big grin & grabs my face to plant a slobbery kiss, I know I'd do every second of it again any night.
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