Sorry if this is all convaluted. I'm really tired, and it's the middle of the night.
This has been going on for 3-4 days, and I'm starting to really lose my mind, because *I* need sleep (and so does DH who takes over after I can't deal with nighttime wakings anymore, bc I've been up for 4 hours at a time). I feel like we have a newborn again.
We sidecar—I love having her fall to sleep next to me, but I need my space when I sleep as I flop a lot.
She goes down great, but then wakes up crying every hour. I bring her from her crib into the main bed. She nurses 5 minutes and passes out again. Then I put her back, she stays asleep, but an hour later she does the same thing.
During the day she's napping 45 minutes at a time max (she normally naps one small 1-hour nap and another 3 hour nap). If I don't grab her right away when she wakes, the crying turns to screaming. This is not like her at all. She's also been nursing—A LOT. She signs "milk" every couple hours during the day and fusses until she gets the boobies. This is a lot for her. She usually only nurses maybe 2-3 times during the day max.
She usually gets like this when she's teething (right before the tooth breaks...she has 16 teeth), but I'm not sure it's teething. Her canines are almost in all the way now (so they shouldn't be bugging her), and there's no signs of her last molars (no swelling or teeth under the gums I can feel). Then again, I think I remember when her other molars came in it was tricky to tell. I sort of remember no swelling...just a hole in the gums and white poking through. Infant tylenol doesn't seem to be helping. Then again, nothing seems to work right before a tooth breaks (and yes we've done it all—amber necklaces, frozen washcloths, frozen celery, motrin, teething tabs, etc—tylenol worked best for us).
This is really weird for her. When she's not teething she usually sleeps and naps like a log on a very predictable schedule so I'm really confused by what's going on. I kind of wish this is her last teeth coming in so we can be done and over with it for good. Teething has not been gentle for us... Hers have rioted into her mouth very quickly (poor love...b@st@rd early teeth...d@mn my genetics).
In the case it's not teething are there any ideas as to what it could be?
I just want it to be over with.... Bad sleep. Don't want. Wah!!!
PS- Sorry for the cussing and lolcat talk. Late and dead tired.
This has been going on for 3-4 days, and I'm starting to really lose my mind, because *I* need sleep (and so does DH who takes over after I can't deal with nighttime wakings anymore, bc I've been up for 4 hours at a time). I feel like we have a newborn again.
We sidecar—I love having her fall to sleep next to me, but I need my space when I sleep as I flop a lot.
She goes down great, but then wakes up crying every hour. I bring her from her crib into the main bed. She nurses 5 minutes and passes out again. Then I put her back, she stays asleep, but an hour later she does the same thing.
During the day she's napping 45 minutes at a time max (she normally naps one small 1-hour nap and another 3 hour nap). If I don't grab her right away when she wakes, the crying turns to screaming. This is not like her at all. She's also been nursing—A LOT. She signs "milk" every couple hours during the day and fusses until she gets the boobies. This is a lot for her. She usually only nurses maybe 2-3 times during the day max.
She usually gets like this when she's teething (right before the tooth breaks...she has 16 teeth), but I'm not sure it's teething. Her canines are almost in all the way now (so they shouldn't be bugging her), and there's no signs of her last molars (no swelling or teeth under the gums I can feel). Then again, I think I remember when her other molars came in it was tricky to tell. I sort of remember no swelling...just a hole in the gums and white poking through. Infant tylenol doesn't seem to be helping. Then again, nothing seems to work right before a tooth breaks (and yes we've done it all—amber necklaces, frozen washcloths, frozen celery, motrin, teething tabs, etc—tylenol worked best for us).
This is really weird for her. When she's not teething she usually sleeps and naps like a log on a very predictable schedule so I'm really confused by what's going on. I kind of wish this is her last teeth coming in so we can be done and over with it for good. Teething has not been gentle for us... Hers have rioted into her mouth very quickly (poor love...b@st@rd early teeth...d@mn my genetics).
In the case it's not teething are there any ideas as to what it could be?
I just want it to be over with.... Bad sleep. Don't want. Wah!!!
PS- Sorry for the cussing and lolcat talk. Late and dead tired.
