I'm not even asking for a full nights sleep. All I want is a 5-6 hour stretch. Begger's can't be picky. Now, after 2 months of not sleeping, I decided it was time to start sleep training him. I have read every single book on the subject. Basically, its either let him cry until he passes out asleep, or keep comforting him less and less every night until he learns to fall asleep. That is a summary of 3 books that I wasted my money on. They basically keep repeating themselves. Fail. One author suggested I give him a "lovey", something to snuggle with. He literally flung it in my face. Do 6 month olds fling things in your face? Is that normal?
Dear sleep training authors, you need to write a book specifically for Arab babies. They are the most stubborn creatures in the universe. Ibby doesn't cry until he passes out. No he cries until he throws up, takes a breather, and then starts a new round. Comforting him? patting him on the stomach only made him angrier. I feel like making a huge bonfire with all my sleep training manuals. As I shuffle between the rooms up to 5 times a night, I've come to an epiphany. The sleeping bear will not tolerate any training. I moved him into his own room last week, and I thought that would help. Instead, he still doesn't sleep, and I get to go back and forth between the rooms, until I eventually pass out on this:
I tried to find this video of a comedian I watched once where he talks about how his wife turns into a monster b/c of the lack of sleep. it was hilarious. darn it.
ReplyDeleteI turn into a bear, too. It's terrible. My husband says I'm SO mean in the middle of the night if I get woken up, and he wants to slap me. hahaha
I know how you feel. This last baby i had, is my problem child. He's a year old, Yasmeen, and he still doesn't sleep through the night. he wakes up around 2am and screams, like blood curdling, like someone is twisting his arm off kind of scream, and cries until I go and pick him up and then I have to nurse him and then he goes back to sleep. His doctor told me that if he's only waking up once and then goes back to sleep, then just deal with it for now. He should outgrow it as he gets older. I don't know, you'd think after 3 kids, I should be a pro...kids have such a way of humbling their mothers...inshaAllah I hope you and Ibby figure something out.
ReplyDelete