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2:23am, again.

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Noah has been sleeping through the night - like 7:30pm-to-6:30am for about a month now.

It began when he was about 12 weeks old. And it was like heaven schmeared with chocolate cream and drizzled with whipped cream and cherries.

It stopped at 17 weeks.

And that was last week.

I don’t know to what I should attribute this hellacious and unfortunate turn of events. Because I am a woman and therefore prone to the unstoppable need to blame and find fault with everything that goes a little bit awry. I blame the fact that we kept Noah out too long on the first night of Passover. Is it possible that keeping him awake too long, letting him fall asleep in the car then waking him up to get him dressed in pajamas and putting him back to bed caused a massive tidal wave of problems falling asleep and problems staying asleep for like, another week and a half? We had a few different visitors that week too and things were busy. Was that it? Is he teething? Is he going through a major growth spurt? On the cusp of a major developmental milestone?

WHAT IS KEEPING MY BABY FROM SLEEPING LIKE HE USED TO???

It is just not fair, NOT FAIR at all to a new mother when after three months of NOT sleeping at all she gets to sleep, finally - and for seven hours at a time - and she then gets tossed back into the throws of waking up at 2 o’clock in the damn morning to feed and comfort the baby.

Ideas? I know he’ll sleep one day, but dear god, please let that be tonight.


Posted in Babies, Parenting Controversies, Sleep Issues on April 29th, 2008

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4 Responses to “2:23am, again.”

  1. Jackie Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 6:49 am

    4 month sleep regression. It ends. Check out http://www.askmoxie.org and read The Wonder Weeks- it sounds like he’s right on schedule.

  2. Jackie Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    http://www.livingcontrolsystems.com/wonder_weeks/content_ww.html

    Summary of the Wonder Weeks is here, but it’s worth picking up a copy.

  3. Stacy Ochsman Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    You know… I read the Moxie info this morning and it was right on target. A real comfort.

  4. Parent Extremis » Blog Archive » Oh yeah … (head slap) Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    [...] So I did what I do when things happen to me: I blogged about it. [...]

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