The first three months are hell on one's sleep schedule, then it gets better... a bit. Once your child reaches about six months they should more or less sleep through the night a good 8-10 hrs. THEN the teething happens, which can take months before the damned teeth even poke through but in the meantime your happy baby becomes a whiny monster who wakes up all night long. Worse this comes and goes. So on week your fine the next not so much. And let's throw in some growth spurts while were at it. The times when your darling becomes a ravenous pig demanding to be feed at all hours. There now we are done with the first year, whew... Oh crips, what did I do? I have to go through this again.. damn.
The second year was not so bad. The boy was still in a crib and I could just leave him in there for a bit if he woke up before ,oh let's say, 9 AM. Note: I am not a morning person in any way form or fashion, I despise the morning.
But once we moved him to the big bed there was nothing keeping him confined expect a gate on the door. Which is all fine and dandy for keeping small children trapped in their room but children do not come with a remote for volume control. So he is loud while playing and singing to himself and I am not a heavy sleeper at all. Which means I have to get up anywhere between 7 -9 AM, it varies from day to day, week to week and month to month. Of course he naturally seems to get up early on the days when I don't go to bed until 2 AM or so (he seems to sense when I do this) and later on the days when I go to bed at old people time around 10 or so. And it never fails that since I have two now if one wakes up before the other they usually succeed in waking up the still sleeping one with their loudness.
The biggest issue is that the boy refuses to go to sleep when I lay him down at night and he usually plays his stupid game of " I am still up, Nah Nah Boo Boo!" with me. Some nights I say "screw it" and ignore the little brat and other nights I go in and threaten with bodily harm if he opens the door one more time. Needless to say he does not fall asleep until well after 10:00 PM when the hubby has left for work. By this time I have two choices go straight to bed and get as much sleep as I need OR spend some much needed ME time. Most of the time I choose the latter and do something like read a book, watch a movie, zone out watch mindlessly stupid TV shows, surf the internet search for Nothing and Everything, or play Wii (right now it is Zelda) which tends to cause me to stay up way to late. So I am usually none to cheerful in the morning when the rooster crows with his usual "MOMMY!". But that it is alright I can lay back down for a bit during nap time right???
Or then again maybe not.... My kids suck right now. Almost everyday I lay the baby girl down and then try to get boy child to lay down. She goes right to sleep, he doesn't. He spends almost 2 hrs squirming and doing everything he can do to NOT go to sleep. Most of the time I have to sit on him (well lay next to him and hold him still). Then I go take a nap, YAY! After about 30 mins, baby girl wakes up and wants to play, not by herself. Joy...up I get to get the baby before she works herself into a tizzy so not to wake the hubby up sleeping off his 3rd shift job. Play with her a bit, feed her and she wears herself out again then lays back down. Okay now I can try to lay down again... or not. Now boy child has awoken...sigh.
If I am lucky I can catch a bit of a nap in after the hubby wakes up but sometimes I don't see the point of it by time it becomes 5 PM.
And here we are, another night... boy child still up playing his game. He has added something to it that makes it even more frustrating, he wants a kiss (sweet yes) but every five minutes! Ugh
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