Another bad night and a rant

[Galatea]

Ds woke every 45 minutes wanting to eat and crying and whimpering. I couldn't make myself wake up and was so annoyed. I had the same yucky annoyed feeling when he latched on and had to push him off and he cried. Then I felt terrible. I tried to soothe him back to sleep but I don't know if it worked. This went on all night. Finally this morning I begged dh to take him out of the bedroom at 8:30 and he did until 10:30. Then he brought him back to bed and they both went to sleep. I went back to sleep too, but when ds woke up at 12:30, I had to get up with him. Now it is 2:00 and dh is still asleep and it really irritates me b/c he acts like 2:00 is sacrosanct and I am bad for wanting him to be awake. He doesn't work nights and only has one class today at 6:00 and he is supposed to put all the safety stuff on the drawers b/c ds won't stop opening them, but it takes him so long to get ready that he won't do any of that stuff. He is like, "Just 20 more minutes." WTF will 20 minutes do? I am freaking out here and feel like I can't spend another day in this house with ds. It is really cold and snowy and I don't have anywhere to go, but I am going to lose my mind being here. Oh I am so irritated I don't want to be around either of them. :splat

[wenat]

I figured I was pregnant when DS (19 mos) wouldn't nurse back to sleep again, and wanted to have marathon nursing sessions, and when I unlatched him after 45 mins, he'd wake up and freak out. I think there's just less milk now for him.

About a week ago, we started leaving a bottle of soy milk by the bed for those 2 am wakings. He knows it's there now. Last night when I unlatched him after a 10-minute nurse, he climbed over me and got the bottle for himself. Drank 2/3 of it (about 3 oz), and fell asleep again.

[cj'smommy]

:Hug mama. Connor was up last night too (he doesn't nurse anymore but it's still hard to get him back to sleep) 3 times. I'd get him back to sleep, go to bed myself and 10 min later he was up again. We did this for 3 hours. DH usally helps me when this happens, but he's away on a business trip so I'm on my own for 2 weeks.

Connor used to sleep well (through the night) and go to bed easily until DH started traveling again in Dec. since then it's been a miserable experience. It's enough to make me cry sometimes. When I'm tired, I get crabby and emotional which adds to the problem.

I hear you on being trapped in the house too. It's too cold here to do anything outside and even go outside for that matter, and staying in the house gets old after awhile. I don't know any other SAHM's either so that makes it tough too. There are times I have thought of throwing in the towel myself.

More :Hug s it can be so tough sometimes. Hopefully tonight will be better for you all and you'll get some sleep!

Take it easy!!