Reminds me of the 2AM Feeding

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The past couple months I have had the pleasure of having Madalyn with me almost 90% of the time. Several weeks agao I decided that things were stable enough here to try and get Madalyn to sleep in her own bed. Before, I was scared and kept putting it off. She has had to share a bed at her moms and she was just used to it and frankly, so was I. But she is a big girl now and she NEEDS to be in her room.

The past 3 weeks have been going well. The only real downside is every night about 2am she cries and I come running. All it takes is about a minute and half laying with her till things are quiet again. I guess my only concern is that this is consistant. I hope it stops soon because I am worn out. Work is stressful, money is tight and I never used to be much of a good sleeper. This is just adding more to the load that I am carrying around and I am pooped.

2 comments:

Kae said...

This happened with me after my youngest's dad stopped seeing her. After about 2 weeks of it i was a walking zombie. I started taking a bit longer to go into her room.. 2 minutes, 5 minutes, even though i was standing right outside her door. It took 2 weeks and only went up to about 8 minutes of her crying to stop.
I hated every minute of it, but she was 2, we were way past that nightly visit thing and i love my sleep :)

Jason said...

I have this misconception that if I don't act quick enough I am a bad dad. It is like I know when she is going to wake up and I am ready to jump out of bed. Being separated from my wife makes me feel I am in competition to be the better parent, yet I don't know why because I have Madalyn most of the time....

UH OH! I am rambling...

Okay, action plan, wait longer before I go in to her room. Makes sense.