I sometimes find myself wondering if Leina really is my kid or if she was switched with another sometime at the hospital. I know she was wearing an ID bracelet and all but I still have my doubts.<\/p>\n
You see, I love to sleep. In fact, I am the queen of sleep. In high school, I could fall asleep late Friday night and wake up Sunday morning if left undisturbed. Before Leina, everyone knew that my day didn’t start until “double digits” so no one ever bothered to try and reach me before 10am because I was zonked. My ideal routine was to go to sleep around midnight and get up around ten. This worked just fine until non-Mini Me showed up.<\/p>\n
I’m telling you, this kid is the exact opposite. Her idea of sleep is to crash for the night around 6pm and get up around 6am. Bleck. Poor Kevin, who usually gets home around 6:30, doesn’t even get to see his baby girl. I’m bleary eyed and grumpy to get pulled out of bed around 5:30am by an awake baby. No matter what we do, we can’t seem to change her sleep clock. She goes down for the night whether I want it or not. A few times, I’ve woken her up when she’s gone down too early like around 5pm but mostly there isn’t much you can do.<\/p>\n
I know the reason she’s on this wierd schedule is that she doesn’t nap. Still. Yes, how long have I been complaining about her napping? Months? And still she won’t take naps and when she does, they only last about 40 minutes. It drives me absolutely wild. I’ve given up trying to sooth her to sleep and am just letting her cry. She’s pretty consistant on this front. She’ll cry for somewhere between 30 to 45 minutes before falling asleep.<\/p>\n
If she falls asleep.<\/p>\n
When she wails for over and hour, I just go get her and start another “up” cycle. She’s usually exhausted and grumpy and will only stay up for about 20 minutes before she starts fussing so it’s back to the crib where she cries for an hour, then I go get her, and the cycle starts again. Is it any wonder that by 5pm she’s dropping from exhaustion? On a bad day, she’ll cry for about 5 hours total and get about 4 hours of sleep. Definately not a winning combo.<\/p>\n
So I’m pretty sure she’s not really my kid or, if she is, she somehow didn’t get my sleep gene. I mean, how can she not love sleep? I just don’t get it. Everyone tells me that eventually she will figure out this nap thing but I don’t believe them. I’ve just set my mind to accept the fact that she’ll scream bloody murder for 30 minutes or more before every nap and this way I’m not quite so anxious when she does. Of course, it still breaks my heart.<\/p>\n
Sigh. Sometimes, this mom things really sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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