Lack of S.L.E.E.P

Posted by Sammy on Jul 21st, 2010 | no comments home title

Boy have I forgotten what it was like to be a zombie during the day because you were up at the weirdest hours of the night. I used to never complain about Mikey’s sleeping habits because he was always a GREAT sleeper. That’s definitely something we lucked out on. All of a sudden though…..he’s a horrible sleeper. For the past 2 weeks he has started putting up a fight going down for bed. Not a huge fight, he just insists on having mommy stay with him. Almost like he’s afraid I’m going somewhere. That turned into him waking up around 3am EVERY SINGLE DAY! Except for the weekend where he would wake up at 5am instead. Woohoo I got an extra 2 hours!

He’s been back at it this week. Some days its 3am, others its 4. Last night, however, he woke up twice. At 1am and then again at 4am! Since he’s in the toddler bed he can easily climb out and run to my room. Can I say heartattack!!!! Because he’s been doing this for the past 2 weeks its been interrupting my sleep. I’m finding that I’m waking up before he comes storming into my room. So I’m never hitting deep sleep.

Last week I thought it were monsters so we made a sign for his door to keep the monsters out and a concocted some spray with lavender oil and water that we spray around his room to keep them away. It worked for 1 night! My latest attempt is a sound machine. Maybe there are some noises going on outside his room in the middle of the night so I’m hoping this will keep him in bed. That’s tonight’s experiment and I really really hope it works. I NEED to sleep or else I’m going to start getting sick and fast.

If that doesn’t work my next attempt will be at room darkening curtains. I’m really hoping I don’t have to resort to that, but I’m not too optimistic about the sound machine. I have a feeling the curtains will be ordered tomorrow

Today I got to thinking that maybe this fear that mommy is going to leave has something to do with the fact that maybe he’s putting two and two together and realizing that daddy is not coming back and he’s afraid that mommy will do the same. I mean in his little head one day he was awake and daddy was there and when he went home and went to sleep daddy was gone…forever. He has no concept that mommy won’t do the same thing. If this is the case none of my little tricks will end up working and I’ll have to probably see a child psychologist to see what I can do to reassure him that mommy isn’t going anywhere.