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Bloody. Hell.

Nov 15th, 2007 by heidi

Why yes, this post is currently coming at you at 1 AM.

Now WHY, why, why would the mother of a 17-month-old who’s currently functioning on 13 cumulative hours of sleep over the last two nights be up at 1 AM? Because her screaming little tyrant of a son can’t sleep. Oh. Woe. Apparently midnight was a WONDERFUL bloody time to be awake and out of his cot.

I disagree. We are currently running off CIO minutes as we speak in ever-increasing intervals from three minutes, four minutes, five minutes…we’re on eight minutes now. If you wanted to know.

I am sick to DEATH of trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with my kid’s sleep. Why one night he can sleep through like a blessed little angel and the next ten nights he thinks he has to be up three times in two hours, then sleep six hours. Or wake up at midnight and not go back to sleep until he’s cried for hours and hours. I WANT ONE OF THE MAJORITY OF TODDLERS WHO IS SLEEPING THROUGH REGULARLY AT 17 MONTHS!!!!!!!!

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s all probably related to Graham’s being away. You know what? I don’t care. Last week at women’s group one of the mothers (of a 3-month-old) was bemoaning her baby’s waking twice in one night. Oh. My. God. I would have KILLED to have a baby who only woke twice in the night! EVEN NOW HE REGULARLY WAKES TWICE IN ONE NIGHT.

Motherhood is a pain in the arse. Babies and toddlers are premium-sized nuisances and at the moment I’d like to plop mine out on the balcony, close the door, and let him discover the joys of a freezing cold Manchester night. After all, he wants to cry, so why not give him something to cry ABOUT?!

No worries. I won’t. But I suspect I won’t be sleeping for a while now because it would seem 1 AM is a GREAT time to be awake and complaining about your nice, warm bed. At least to the little brat in the next room over.

Addendum:  After 45 minutes of holding my hand while he tossed and turned in his cot, he appears to have embraced sleep as friend rather than foe.

If he doesn’t sleep until 7.30 now, I think I might just go stark, raving mad.

Tags: rants

Posted in Big Bad Mummy

2 Responses to “Bloody. Hell.”

  1. on 15 Nov 2007 at 3:45 pm1daisybones

    Ya know what? I do not believe that a majority of 17 month olds are sleeping throught the night. [Molly does not, thank Goddess, scream for an hour. She wakes up, I try to pat her belly or coo at her, she claws the nightclothes off of me until I nurse her. I try to tell her “OK, all finished all gone,” (which works during the day.) She fusses and nurses until she’s deep asleep again.] But she doesn’t sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time. Neither do most toddlers I’m reading about online, or my friends’ big babies. This leads me to believe that the people who say their toddlers sleep all night are Lying Lie-Ridden Liars! The doctors who say they should are full of shit. Or shite, if you like;)

    I know it doesn’t help the hell that is a cracked out mommy on no sleep, but the toddler sleep thing is an illusion.

  2. on 15 Nov 2007 at 3:50 pm2heidi

    Ciaran normally wakes once a night and occasionally gives us a full night’s sleep. I would typically call him a good sleeper, except when he’s sick (and he was sick most of last week, so I’m coming off a bad week’s sleep on top of it all!). Three nights in a row that are this bad is really foreign to us these days, thank goodness, but he has never settled for me the way that he settles for Graham.

    For me he screams. For Graham he mostly settles back quickly without much fuss!

    Lying lie-ridden liars indeed! I think they should all be DUNKED IN LYE!

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