Baby Rimes


March 28, 2006

Sleep Deprivation Stinks

Category: Adventures in Parenting – Daddy Rimes – 9:32 am

Baby Rimes has a new sleep routine. However, rather than share the new routine with her parents first to discuss the ramifications it might have on their mental and physical health, Baby Rimes decided last Saturday night that it’s now a good idea to get up no fewer than 3 times a night. That’s right, 3 times. To be fair, one of the nighttime wakings occurs just as Mommy and Daddy Rimes are headed for bed, which only delays our bedtime. However, with the addition of wakings around 12:45 am and again at 3:00 am, Baby Rimes has effectively turned our nights into a sequence of napping sessions. While I wouldn’t usually complain about sleep deprivation (both of us experienced it for the first month or two) it’s really hard to go from the accustomed one nighttime waking back to three :(

Alright, so I’m whining (Mommy Rimes doesn’t like it when I do), but if Baby Rimes doesn’t quickly resume her old schedule by responding well to efforts to get her to sleep throughout the night, Daddy and Mommy Rimes are going to need another night away from the baby sooner than we had anticipated.

3 Comments »

  1. You’ll have to put up a new header! :)

    Comment by Nicole — March 30, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

  2. Read this

    http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/03_31_2006.html

    Comment by Nicole — March 31, 2006 @ 4:03 pm

  3. Yeah, I was thinking of perhaps replacing her image with a shot of just us two, baggy-eyed and all, but I thought better of it when I realized just how horrifying the image was. She’s actually been sleeping a LOT better this week, much like she used to. Last night was a bit rough, but it was due to what we think is her beginning to teeth (don’t hold your breath, we’ve been wrong before).

    I read the post on the site you gave us, but we just don’t have the will power to do the Furber method. Nicole and I tried it one night, and after 20 minutes of screaming and crying we realized that although it may work for many parents, we’d rather wait until the child could at least communicate with us through words before we started depriving her of something that causes midnight bouts of uncontrolled rage.

    Comment by Ben — March 31, 2006 @ 5:01 pm

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