Yes dear, whatever you say dear

My dear hubby is officially on my shit list today.

We have had sleeping problems with Bub for the last week or two. I think a lot of it comes from being in a new house, he wakes up and his room is different, his toys aren't hanging from the ceiling, everything is new and different and it freaks him out. So he wakes up and doesn't go back to sleep.

We usually wake him up around 6:00 a.m. anyway to bring him to bed and nurse or have a bottle. A few weeks ago, he started waking up and fussing around 5:30 -- no big deal --almost time to wake up, so Charley brought him to bed. Sometimes it was 5:45 --other times 5:15. Little too early to wake up for my tastes but usually he snuggled up and went back to sleep.

Then about two weeks ago or so, he started to wake at 4:00 a.m. Again, Charley brought him to bed. This went on for a few days. Then it was 3:00 a.m. About a week ago it was 1:30 a.m., then 12:30 am...see a pattern?

Of course he wanted in bed with us. Much more comphy in the nice toasty water bed snuggled up with daddy. He quickly (in my opinion) figured this out.

I wanted to put a stop to this.

So Friday night, when he started fussing around midnight, I told Charley we were not going in. I let him cry about 30 minutes, went in to say I love you and you are okay but you need to sleep in your own bed. He had thrown his bottle on the ground and was standing up.

That got more screams.

So I went in again, rocked him a bit, gave him his bottle, nursed him until he fell asleep-- and of course he woke up screaming as soon as I put him in his crib.

Went in a third time.

Finally, just let him cry.

Took about an hour and a half to two hours total, but he finally went back to sleep.

Charley was not happy about that. He thinks its mean and after all we would get more sleep if he was with us.

Saturday night comes, and I wonder out loud how he will do and Charley asks me "are you doing the same thing? " YES I want to break him of this habit-- I know he is a smart baby and he has figured this out and we need to put a stop to it.

Thankfully, Saturday night he goes to bed and doesn't make a peep until 7 a.m. NICE.

Sunday night, get him in bed, we are tired, work tomorrow. And, of course, he wakes up at 11:45 p.m. We lay in bed listening to him fuss for a bit. Charley finally gets up and I was like "really" he is barely fussing, not screaming, just whimpering, he will eventually go back to sleep.

Well, Charley says, I will get more sleep if he is here instead of in his room fussing. So, over my objection, he goes and gets Bub and brings him to bed.

We all go to sleep.

3:00 a.m. I wake to well aimed kicks to my kidneys. Bub has turned himself sideways and apparently is trying to get comphy. I move all the way to the edge of the bed....and so does he. Finally, I roll over, move his legs so he is not kicking me. He quiets down....

for another 15 minutes.

Then he starts tossing and turning, moving, rolling, up down up down for the next hour and a half. I guess he just can't get comphy and so he is just moving around. Finally, around 4:15, I ask Charley if he has any bottle left to help settle him down, Charley gets up to get a new bottle and Bub rolls off the bed to follow him, but he is still half asleep so he walks a few feet, falls, cries, walks a few feet. Charley grabs him, hands him to me, and gets the bottle.

I think he finally got back to sleep around 4:45 a.m.

Yes dear, we certainly get more sleep when he is in bed with us.

Sigh.