A Lesson In Sleep

Grayson is still not sleeping well. Which makes me one very tired mommy. So, I'm going to try a gentle sleep method route. What is it? The No Cry Sleep Solution. Come on Elizabeth Pantley, show me what you've got!

To be honest, after reading the book, I'm not at all excited about charting sleep habits for ten days. Charting what? Yeah, sleep habits. For 10 days, you record your baby's sleep habits, and then you adjust accordingly until your baby sleeps through the night. Whatever gets me some sleep though, right? I mean, this waking up 3 or more times a night still is just not cutting it for me anymore. I am exhausted. I am so tired that I actually slept through him crying. I heard him over the monitor, but my brain interpreted it as a dream, and I slept. His crying turned to giggles and he was entertaining himself when I was finally able to get my body to sluggishly move and trip it's way to his room to nurse him.

So, come Tuesday, we're hopefully on our way to long nights of precious sleep. I'm ready. I'm more than ready. I need sleep. I feel constantly tired and am getting frequent headaches throughout the day as a result of little to no sleep. We're starting on Tuesday because David doesn't work Tuesday through Friday, so while I quietly (HAHAHA!!!) start Grayson on a bedtime routine, David can play with Claire and put her to bed. I can figure out a way to get it to work for us on the nights that David is working.

In other Grayson news, ever since his 12 month well check, he just hasn't been his normal, happy, little self. He's been pretty crabby really. There's a total of 2 hours in the day when he doesn't care that I am not holding him. The rest of the time he's crying and following me wherever I go. It makes it quite difficult to get things done. I'm not quite sure why he's like this now. He was quite content before to be alone with his toys while I did dishes or swept the floor. I'm sure he'll be fine though.

And now, I'm off to sleep.