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post #61 of 103
12/15/08 at 8:25pm
I really needed to find this post today!!! Thank you--I was feeling so isolated and all around crappy... but reading these had me laughing out loud.

You know you have a crappy sleeper when....

* your husband's suggestion of a baby sedative begins to sound like a reasonable idea.
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post #62 of 103
12/17/08 at 12:25am
So glad that bumping this old thread helped someone besides me!

See, you really aren't alone in your misery... we're crying with you!

Sleep babies sleep!!! Sleep toddlers sleep!!!
post #63 of 103
12/17/08 at 8:48am
Right there with ya mama. I have this fantasy of leaving DS at home with DH for a whole day, going to a hotel, asking for their quietest room, checking in and sleeping ALL.DAY.LONG.


I miss my old friend, Sleep. Maybe one day in the future we shall meet again.[/QUOTE]


This. Totally this. My constant dream.
post #64 of 103
12/17/08 at 9:07pm
As a mom of a crappily sleeping 3-year old, I love this thread. Thank you for making me not feel totally alone.

You know you have a crappy sleeper when

*You have chucked The No Cry Sleep Solution across the room and vow to do the same should you ever meet Elizabeth Pantley in person

*You get migraine headaches from the sleep deprivation

*You burst into tears whenver your hubby closes his eyes to rest for a few minutes on his weekends off

*You are actually surprised when you write coherently

*You not only can't remember the meanings of words like "ephemeral" and "esoteric" but you can't even recall how to spell them (had to look these up), and then once you look them up in the dictionary you can't remember what you read 10 minutes later

*You refuse to discuss sleep with any other mother on this planet unless it's in a thread about other crappy sleepers
post #65 of 103
12/18/08 at 4:17am
Oh I am so so so so so here.
I have a friend who had a 3.5 year old who slept from ~8pm-7am. Ugh. UGH. UGH!

My kids? Eh. I'd say we get maybe 3-4 nights a month of solid sleep. (Waking a few times to nurse, of course, but that doesn't count.)

My BIL said to DP the other day at dinner, "Don't you think it might be easier to just - you know, put them on a schedule or something?"
laughup
Oh, yeah, thanks childless BIL, we never thought of that.

You know you have a crappy sleeper when...

-You end up on a nocturnal sleeping schedule every once in a while, and it doesn't bother you all that much, as long as you get *sleep*.
post #66 of 103
12/18/08 at 4:18am
*When you've cancelled countless appointments because of how your previous night went.
post #67 of 103
12/18/08 at 4:51am
*When you seriously want to strangle DH for saying he "is so tired" not forgetting the fact that every 15-30 minutes, while your baby woke up, he was SNORING!

*When the thought of peeing your pants sounds like a logical decision rather than chancing taking the sleeping baby out of the wrap and going to the bathroom.

*when you wonder if maybe going formula fed, CIO would have gotten you more sleep.

*when the thought of NEVER having another 8 hours (heck, I'd settle for 2 hours straight) of sleep for years makes you teary.
post #68 of 103
12/18/08 at 9:23am
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Originally Posted by kalamos23 View Post
*When you seriously want to strangle DH for saying he "is so tired" not forgetting the fact that every 15-30 minutes, while your baby woke up, he was SNORING!

*When the thought of peeing your pants sounds like a logical decision rather than chancing taking the sleeping baby out of the wrap and going to the bathroom.

*when you wonder if maybe going formula fed, CIO would have gotten you more sleep.

*when the thought of NEVER having another 8 hours (heck, I'd settle for 2 hours straight) of sleep for years makes you teary.
Yeah to this, and all of every single previous post!

-When DH complains he's so tired cause he 'didnt get much sleep' cause he CHOSE to be online till the wee hours. Then when he came to bed he jostled it, woke up the baby (balanced precariously into the crook of my arm, FINALLY asleep) and I'm FUMING and thinking of VERY inappropriate uses for his pillow...grrrrr!

I have more. But I've been up for HOURS and I'm exhausted.
zzzzzzzzzzz.........
Bellevuemama
post #69 of 103
12/18/08 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by LuxPerpetua View Post

You know you have a crappy sleeper when

*You have chucked The No Cry Sleep Solution across the room and vow to do the same should you ever meet Elizabeth Pantley in person

*You refuse to discuss sleep with any other mother on this planet unless it's in a thread about other crappy sleepers
Both of these, but add throwing anyone who recommends the NCSS to you as well. Frankly, anyone with any sleep advise. My personal favorite - "have you tried nursing to sleep?" Yes, that fixes night wakings, thank you.
post #70 of 103
12/18/08 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by _betsy_ View Post
When it takes you loger to get her down for a nap than she actually naps.
oh, that is me! an hour and a half to achieve a 30 minute nap!!
post #71 of 103
12/18/08 at 7:57pm
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Originally Posted by veganone View Post
Oh yeah - I've even asked the ped for a referral to a sleep clinic or specialist.

I forgot one:
*When lack of sleep changes your baby making plans from 2 to just this one.
that's me too. both asking the pediatrician, and only wanting one child now that we've seen how this one sleeps
post #72 of 103
12/18/08 at 8:06pm
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Originally Posted by Tinker View Post
~ When you're glad it's morning just because it means the night is over, even though you haven't slept. Yup that's how bad the nights are. *le sigh* Why am I still waking up 7 or 8 times a night with a 2yo? I swear I get less sleep than newborn parents. Heck MY dd slept better as a newborn, too bad it didn't last.:
hilarious! i'm so the same. i'm cracking up reading these posts, summing up my life! and now he's finally asleep and i've got the insomnia.......
post #73 of 103
12/19/08 at 4:29am
I got a new one...

*when you don't have to worry about birth control because you never have sex... because the baby never sleeps!
post #74 of 103
12/19/08 at 7:15am
* when you lie rigid with fear because you suddenly remember you forgot to take the phone of the hook and your little one is finally asleep (you know what will happen if you move to take it off now.........)

*when your secret secret, but only hope is that, without hurting himself, your baby accidentally falls off the family bed and hits his head, knocking that sleep mechanism back into place. I am the most evil mama right?
post #75 of 103
12/19/08 at 9:21am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by kalamos23 View Post
*When the thought of peeing your pants sounds like a logical decision rather than chancing taking the sleeping baby out of the wrap and going to the bathroom.
this is so me except change out wrap with bed! i have gone so far as to eye the female urinals on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Each-Feminal-F...689094&sr=8-18

and yes, i am writing this at 5:30 in the morning and yes, DD has been up for two hours already. and yes, i started this thread and things haven't gotten any better. well, except now i know i am in good company.
now, sleep little babies, sleep!
post #76 of 103
12/22/08 at 10:10am
OK, I know these should sort of be funny, but it is so, so sad.

You know you have a crappy sleeper when

*you get really good at holding your breath a long time, because you unconsciously do this when your LO looks like he will finally close his eyes.

*you look like you've been beaten up. But it's only because your LO kicks and claws at you when in a wrap or being held in a dim room (with soft music playing or you singing sweetly)

*when you consider CIO every nap- and bedtime. But you know you'd never try it.

*you've never been able to move your sleeping baby. (Even during the newborn months when everyone says is the time to sleep train.) And you'd never try because you worked too hard to blow it with a luxury like having the baby sleep independently.

And, the one that really makes me feel alone...

*when you discuss sleep with other parents, they cock their heads to one side as they're thinking of suggestions (that you know won't work because you've tried them a million times) and you just KNOW they think it's your fault.
post #77 of 103
12/22/08 at 10:52am
oh wait, one more.

you know you have a crappy sleeper when

*the term "put baby down" for a nap or to bed is a sick, sick joke
post #78 of 103
12/22/08 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by editornj View Post
oh wait, one more.

you know you have a crappy sleeper when

*the term "put baby down" for a nap or to bed is a sick, sick joke


As I sit here w/snoozing bb in arms, typing away at MDC and cursing the phone that got left on down the hallway...cause only NOW does it begin to ring. And ring. And ring. So I'm 'whisper yelling' for DD to come here so I can explain to her that I REALLY need her to go turn the phone off, but she doesn't completely get what I'm saying cause it's ringing.

ARGH!!!!!!

Must. Not. Wake. Sleeping. Baby!
Bellevuemama
post #79 of 103
12/22/08 at 9:19pm
when your almost 3-year old wakes 4 times btw 12:30 and 6:30 even though you haven't nursed her at night for two weeks (when oh when will she "get" nightweaning)

when you think having a "typical" newborn would be easier than you almost 3-year old sleeper
post #80 of 103
12/26/08 at 2:24am
Oh man - if she's not sleeping by 3 years I'm definitely not having another one...

YKYHACSW...

you pee every 20 minutes from whenever she goes to bed until you go to bed. Once I go to bed (when she wakes up next time) that's it for the night so I try to make sure my bladder is completely empty whenever that is!
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