I don’t remember much about the first few months of Allee’s infancy. I felt so sleep deprived and it was my main talking point for weeks (if not months)–all I could think about and talk about was the need for more sleep and when was she going to sleep and P.S.–did I tell you I need more sleep?!?? When I wasn’t OBSESSED with that, I was worried about the screaming–why, why, WHY! was she screaming…what was wrong with me?? Well, it turns out she was reacting to the formula she was given and when we straightened that out she was a much happier baby. She didn’t really learn how to sleep on her own until she was 3…but that was our fault not hers.
In my infinite wisdom, I decided that I would not obsess about sleep with Lily and that I would be so much better about sleep training her. Turns out she’s sleep training me. I totally made sleep my talking point for these last 9 weeks and have hated myself every time I uttered a word about it…but I couldn’t help it, sleep is apparently more important than I gave it credit for.
To Lily’s credit–she’s a fairly decent sleeper. Lately she’s only getting up from about 3-4:30 AM and she takes some really great naps. I’m just spoiled and I don’t want her to have a hard time learning how to sleep by herself (it was so hard on us and Allee to get her to where she is now).
