Season Cycle or Conspiracy?
Jun. 28th, 2006 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryThe past two weeks have been a struggle to get Nigel (the 19 mo) to sleep and stay asleep. Let's start the analysis in the morning...Nigel gets up around 5:30-6am, takes a nap around 12:30-1pm, sleeps for around 90 minutes, then comes nighttime. We've learned that it is useless trying to get him to go down less than 5 hours after he wakes up. So around 7-7:30pm, the wife takes him for a nightcap nip. About 20-30 minutes later she calls for me because Nigel is playing and chatting. I then wrestle with him for 30 minutes or more. He's getting to sleep between 8:30-9pm, every-other night he'll wake up once or twice, and then awake and ready for the world at 5:30am.
***slight venting aside***
This pattern of her nursing then passing along to me formed a few weeks ago. She is now convinced that I do something magical to get him to go to sleep. I assert that I do nothing more than kill time till he gives up. I guess this is the evil underside of the old days where nursing would be the only thing to knock him out. Now I'm being regarded as the only thing that will knock him out.
I don't think I'd be sour about this if she would just admit that I should have the duty of putting Nigel down. However, she insists that I'm still responsible for putting down Calvin (the 4 yo)...she just occasionally needs my help with Nigel..."occasionally" apparently meaning nearly every single night for almost a month. *sigh*
***Guzzled some Mtn Dew and moving on***
To top that off, Calvin has been waking up nearly every night for the past week or two. Sometimes he just needs a little help getting back to sleep, but more than half of the time he never seems to fall back asleep until several hours later. He'll lie there in bed with you nice and quiet, but doesn't pass out. We think he might be asleep and start to come out of his bed, only to hear, "Mommy/Daddy, where are you going?"
Part of me wants to believe that it is the long days of summer messing with their body clocks. Nigel doesn't seem to be teething and isn't as twitchy as he has been when going through growth spurts. No matter if we wear the kids out during the day, have a relaxing evening to soothe them into slumberland, or whatever; they are both going through a sleep funk that is making My Beloved and I quite edgy.
Additional thoughts? Other than slipping them a mickey? ;)
***slight venting aside***
This pattern of her nursing then passing along to me formed a few weeks ago. She is now convinced that I do something magical to get him to go to sleep. I assert that I do nothing more than kill time till he gives up. I guess this is the evil underside of the old days where nursing would be the only thing to knock him out. Now I'm being regarded as the only thing that will knock him out.
I don't think I'd be sour about this if she would just admit that I should have the duty of putting Nigel down. However, she insists that I'm still responsible for putting down Calvin (the 4 yo)...she just occasionally needs my help with Nigel..."occasionally" apparently meaning nearly every single night for almost a month. *sigh*
***Guzzled some Mtn Dew and moving on***
To top that off, Calvin has been waking up nearly every night for the past week or two. Sometimes he just needs a little help getting back to sleep, but more than half of the time he never seems to fall back asleep until several hours later. He'll lie there in bed with you nice and quiet, but doesn't pass out. We think he might be asleep and start to come out of his bed, only to hear, "Mommy/Daddy, where are you going?"
Part of me wants to believe that it is the long days of summer messing with their body clocks. Nigel doesn't seem to be teething and isn't as twitchy as he has been when going through growth spurts. No matter if we wear the kids out during the day, have a relaxing evening to soothe them into slumberland, or whatever; they are both going through a sleep funk that is making My Beloved and I quite edgy.
Additional thoughts? Other than slipping them a mickey? ;)
