Sleeping Beauty

On Sunday Phoebe and I spent some time in the mother's room at church. One topic of conversation that came up was sleep. How long did Phoebe sleep at night? The other moms gasped in envy when I said that on a good night she would sleep for a seven hour chunk before waking up to eat, but most nights it was at least five hours. Apparently a lot of the babies in the room at the time have only been giving their moms three hour blocks of sleep.

Phoebe must have been taking notes.

On Sunday night she woke far more than usual. The longest block of sleep? That's right, three hours. I was tired on Monday, but ok.

Last night the most consecutive sleep she got was two and a half hours and it was during the early part of the night before I had gone to sleep. She woke up so much in fact that I didn't get to sleep until 4:30 this morning. I finally stumbled into our room, somewhat weepy, and handed her to Bryan. He had her in her bed and asleep within minutes.

He has skills.

Today is Bryan's last day off of work from the Christmas vacation. I told him that I was so thankful he was home, because I didn't know how I was going to get through today otherwise. When Phoebe went down for a nap, so did I.

It's 2:52 in the afternoon and I just got dressed for the day.

Dear Phoebe,

You are a very sweet girl and I love snuggling with you but if I don't get more sleep tonight, I might be a wee bit cranky tomorrow.

Love,

Your Mildly Coherent Mommy