The Daily Hailey

… or lack there of.

I should actually say, this post is about our current sleep “routine.” I was going to write this post first thing in the morning when it was fresh in my mind, but our internet has been out all day. Its finally back up and running, so here I am now anyway.

We had this great week-ish long stretch of Rowan sleeping through the night. He just needed to be a bit warmer, so we warmed the place up a bit, and he was sleeping through. Now, in the last few days, he’s taken a jump on his morning poop, and has decided to take of it around 4:00am. At first, we didn’t know it was a poop situation. He woke up and chatted for a bit, which was fine. We waited for him to just chat himself back to sleep. Around 4:30 he got a bit louder, so we checked on him and of course, he had pooped. Once he was changed, we’d lay him down, and he’d fuss like crazy! So we’d give him milk and he’d go back. Normal baby, right?

This is the thing. Our kids are usually very much sleeping through the night at this point. Its been different with Rowan because of his reflux, and the fact that he’d only ever drink milk in the night. If he woke up, we’d feed him, because it was the only time he’d take it. Reversing it is SO hard!!! I know the whole sleep training subject can get touchy, so let’s all just keep our opposing opinions to ourselves, if we can help it 😉 That being said, though, I am 100% in support of sleep training, because this SUCKS. Lol!

This morning was the same story. Chatting at 4:00, pooping at 4:30, and crying soon after. Now I KNOW that Ro is more than capable of sleeping through the night, and that he isn’t starving or miserable, because when he does sleep through, he doesn’t wake up wailing for food at all. So I’m confident he is just wanting to be soothed to sleep. So this morning, we let him cry.

And cry he did. I was wide awake listening to him struggle and fight until about 5:45am when he finally gave in. And when he did finally stop crying, I heard the big kids moving around. Now my Dekker and Laela don’t usually even lull until maybe 8:00, so Ro has definitely woke them. I looked at the monitor and Deks was STANDING on his bed. Suuuper unimpressed with this situation, I whispered into the monitor for him to go back to sleep, and after a reminder or two, he did. Of course, my talking into monitor woke Laela so I had to fix that too. I’m SO thankful that everyone went back to sleep, because that meant I could do. But what a crazy broken morning!

So tonight, we are moving Rowan out of our room for the night. Its just a trial run, but again, we’ve never had a kid in our room this long, and we’re about ready to be done. There aren’t too many options of where to move him here, so our only option is to put him in another chilly room and run another space heater, which will yet again load up our energy bill. Ugh. But its got to get done! This kid has got to get sleeping through the night. If not for his silly reflux issue, I think this would have happened long ago!

So the baby is moved, the monitor is set up, and we are ready to go for round #2! Wish us luck!!!