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 5-8 months, Mommy Body, Mommy Mind, Sleeping
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Baby Ambien

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Have you ever heard that it is our brains that need to sleep and not our bodies? Or that sleep depravation is an actual form of torture?! And how come we have to “fall asleep?” Isn’t that so dramatic? Why don’t step into sleep… or cruise there? Maybe all the knowledge of the universe is in our dreams, and the price we pay is waking up.

Oh sleep… how do I miss thee… I would count the ways, but I might pass out.

I get that every parent has an issue with their baby… mine just happens to be sleep. It is not that I have a problem getting her to sleep, it is that she wakes up almost every two hours… every hour if I am lucky. She doesn’t cry… she doesn’t even wake up. She just grunts. She grunts and grunts and thrashes her head like Stevie Wonder in search for my nipple. Now I don’t know about you, but I find sleeping while someone is sucking on my boob next to impossible.

Point is I wake up a lot… meaning I have to “fall” back asleep a lot too. I can acknowledge that part of this is my own doing. She does sleep right next to me, and from what I understand, breastfed babies usually do wake up more. Those are choices I made, and I can’t blame The Munch. If I was sleeping next to a pizza all night chances are I would wake up for a few bites too.

I tried complaining to my mom about it, who suggested that I “Put her in a crib in an other room like I did with you. You were down stairs so you really had to fuss to get my attention.” Well, now that my life long battle with insomnia is solved, I am still not sure what my best strategy is. Sure baby Ambien would be great, if I could get my hands on some.

So what I am telling myself is that even though I never get more than two hours of uninterrupted sleep, the fact that I am sleeping so close to her little mind makes me feel that maybe our dreams our melding together. That we will forever have a connection in the astral plane of our slumber, so even when we are apart we can always visit in our unconscious.

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  • http://WebsiteURL holly

    My absolute favorite pictures of you both. BTW, you are a light sleeper and hyper aware of sleeping with your baby. Your sleeping will adjust.

  • http://WebsiteURL Kate

    Inception!

  • http://WebsiteURL Gita

    i do love that pic above of u 2.
    altho some of the new water pics might rival it….

    :)

  • http://WebsiteURL Samantha

    I slept with the Kick-a-Butts as well, but I was able to take it like one long bus ride. I also had a nickname- one for both-, even though I didn’t keep a blog: weird!

  • http://WebsiteURL Grace

    I agree with Holly. My fav pic of you two. You look so young and she has such an old soul expression. Its like you both got confused on the astral plane and woke up in the other’s body. Freaky Friday!