It's like trying to be Indiana freaking Jones

Argh! Well here is a late night (I know I am getting old when I think 11pm is late night!) rant...

How could I possibly be so bad at putting my child to sleep all of the sudden??
It's like Little Cashew knew that Walnut had to work late this week (4pm-12am) and that I would be on bedtime duty myself and she thought it would be fun to rebel and not ever want to go to sleep...oh and of course cry a TON!

I don't know what it is, I can get her to go to sleep while I am holding her, but I can't put her down without waking her! Now sometimes it's clearly my fault...ie I hit her arm or foot or something on the railing of the crib while lifting her over. (I am jealous that Walnut doesn't have this problem...he's 6'7") But other times I swear I am so careful and she still wakes up! It's like Indian Jones and his bag of sand/idol switch-a-roo! Just a few grains of sand off and all of my hard work gets undone!!

And now that she is finally asleep, I am too stressed over her waking up for me to get any sleep! I can hear her making little noises over the monitor and I jump 8 feet at each one...please let her stay asleep.

Ugh, I would be the worst single parent...Walnut has the magic sleeping touch with our Little Cashew...I kind of think he is carrying around ether and knocking her out...okay well I don't actually think that...but seriously it's amazing.

The last of my night time posts...

So I am going to try and make this the last of my night time posts...so we will see how much blogging Little Cashew lets me get done during the day.
Why you ask??
I'm going to try to devote more time to Walnut once we get Little Cashew to sleep...it's too easy for me to sit at the computer and blog or Bump away until it's time for bed. And we have so little time to ourselves as it is, I don't want to eat into that with blogging.

But since I am here a little blogging won't hurt...

We are having some sleep issues...doh!
Little Cashew "sleeps through the night" as in she will consistently give us at least a 7 hour stretch, but the last few nights shes has been super difficult to get down. She just cries and fights Walnut SO MUCH when he tries to get her to sleep...I'm hoping this is not a new habit she is developing.

And the other sleep issue is ME! I got up at 2:30am yesterday and could not fall back asleep for the life of me! It's like I'm a glutton for punishment! Hopefully I will get some better sleep tonight, otherwise tomorrow is going to be REALLY rough...it will be another nanny-less day where I need to also study and get some research done.

And I am pretty sure she has a little hematoma on her thigh from her vaccines on Monday :(...It's just a red bump, and it doesn't seem to bother her...but I hate seeing anything wrong with my Little Cashew!

Apparently I am the one who needs to work on sleeping through the night...

I guess Little Cashew wants to be a southern bell because she did great on our North Carolina trip! In fact she was a sleeping champion! She slept through the night for 9 hours, 10 hours, 9 hours and then a 4 hour stretch with a wake up to eat and then a 7 hour stretch on the 4 nights we were there. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Walnut and I actually slept through the night also! On our first night there Little Cashew made a few noises around 3:30am (pretty standard for her) , so Walnut got up to warm up her bottle and I got the pump ready. (We give her a bottle of pumped milk at night so she stays used to the bottle for the nanny/daycare...)

And we waited. There were a few more adorable noises, and that was it....Walnut and I lay there in disbelief...no way she went back to sleep...she will let out a cry any minute now....but it never came, and at 4:30am we went back to sleep.

And the next thing I know its 7:30am shes happily cooing in her pack and play and I am painfully engorged and sopping wet with milk despite my fabulous breast pads. Yeah I didn't pump overnight because I just figured she would eventually wake up and I would pump then, I never considered the possibility that she might just sleep through the night.

Now this is not the first time Little Cashew has given us the opportunity to get a good nights sleep, but she has never done it so many times in a row! The only problem in this wonderful sleeping arrangement is me waking up several times during the night all engorged and milky. I guess if she keeps doing this my body will get the idea and cool down overnight.

Now to see if this whole sleeping thing sticks, or if we completely screwed her up with another overnight drive, this time back to the nut home.

I may have to start worshiping Carters as well

So typically I leave all of my baby clothing worshiping for Gymboree...oh Gymboree how I love all of your cute clothes, and the fact that your website makes outfits for me...and your sales! of your sales! But I digress, this is about Carters and their amazing fleece sleep bags! As seen here. I give them full credit for the amazing de-swaddling success we have had for the last 2 nights.

And now Little Cashew will likely do what she does best, and prove me wrong by having a miserable night tonight...let's hope not!

But 2 nights ago, we decided to try and de-swaddle Little Cashew. After Christmas we are going to transition her to her own room and into her crib, and we figured we should start to get her out of the swaddle too. I mean she breaks out of it every night anyway, so Walnut and I figured she was ready. But we thought to ease the transition (and keep her warm) we would put her in one of these sleep bags...this way she will stay warm (she is too little for loose blankets, and when we tuck her in with a blanket around her, she gets it loose and puts it over her face...its part of that "Everything goes in my mouth!!!" movement she is on. On night one she slept TEN HOURS (!!!) including a 1:30am wake up (no crying...just kicking and a few grunts) which she put herself back to sleep during and last night she slept for 9 hours straight. The only draw back here is that I've woken up completely covered in milk and need to change and take a shower asap...but it seem like a small price to pay for sleep!

So my only concern with this fabulous new product is that it says "0-9 months" and Little Cashew is quite a tall little munchkin, and at 3 and a half months doesn't have a whole lot more room in them length-wise...and when the night comes where she needs to go to sleep without one...yikes I don't even want to think about it...because I've gotten it in my head that she NEEDS these fabulous sleep bags!

It looks like there will be another trip to CVS today...need some Dr Browns Stage 2 nipples...I think...who really knows...see previous post regarding my low bottle IQ. But we are hoping that will help with the bottle mayhem that is currently ensuing...more on that later. Did I mention that there is a foot and a half of snow on the ground...yeah Walnut will be transporting her on this adventure.