Morning People
For a while, it felt like we were leading a charmed life: Allison Clare slept for up to 14 1/2 hours at night. While she did wake up once or twice in the early morning, she went right back to sleep after eating and so essentially slept from about 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. Ah, it was glorious.
Unfortunately, those days appear to be over. My little early bird starts chirping at about 6:15 every morning now, and compounding matters, wants a feeding at about 3:30 a.m. I've considered working to eliminate that feeding the way we did before, but I don't think it's a good idea: she now goes to bed earlier, sometimes as early as 6:30 p.m., so she seems truly hungry by nine hours later. Also, that feeding lets me delay her first feeding of the day a little, which may mean I can feed her immediately before and after class most days, eliminating the need for bottles (more of a problem these days because I've lost the ability to pump).
All of which is to say, I now need to be asleep by the absurd hour of 9:30 p.m., if you subtract out the time for the middle-of-the-night feeding, in order to even hope to get enough sleep. The last time I regularly went to bed so early was probably elementary school--I am totally a night owl. And it's relentless--she has shown no observance of weekends, or the fact that we are ON VACATION, child! ;)
Unfortunately, those days appear to be over. My little early bird starts chirping at about 6:15 every morning now, and compounding matters, wants a feeding at about 3:30 a.m. I've considered working to eliminate that feeding the way we did before, but I don't think it's a good idea: she now goes to bed earlier, sometimes as early as 6:30 p.m., so she seems truly hungry by nine hours later. Also, that feeding lets me delay her first feeding of the day a little, which may mean I can feed her immediately before and after class most days, eliminating the need for bottles (more of a problem these days because I've lost the ability to pump).
All of which is to say, I now need to be asleep by the absurd hour of 9:30 p.m., if you subtract out the time for the middle-of-the-night feeding, in order to even hope to get enough sleep. The last time I regularly went to bed so early was probably elementary school--I am totally a night owl. And it's relentless--she has shown no observance of weekends, or the fact that we are ON VACATION, child! ;)
posted by Tara | 6:55 AM
2 Comments:
Oh no! Another person that I must tremble with trepidation each time I dare to call past 9PM ;)
Lost the ability to pump?? Because of opportunity, or some other reason? I might've missed something in my sporadic blog-checking these days.
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