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Day 176: I'm thinking I've jinxed myself

So yeah, I knew I shouldn’t have bragged ~~out loud~~ to the interweb about the fact that Abby was such a good sleeper at night. I mean at 7 weeks she started doing 6-8 hour stretches. And by 2 months, we knew we could get a solid 8 hours out of her. Three months…forget about it. Us waking up in the morning before she did.

But now…oh now…she’s up every 3-4 hours. GAH!!!!!

It started last week when she was sick. We didn’t think twice about it b/c she was running a fever and the pediatrician did say that her throat looked pretty darn red. But over a week later and she’s still waking up.

Oh, and I have told you guys that she’s still sleeping in our room. Nope, not co-sleeping, but in her pack and play in our room and with her being sick and all, we moved the rocking chair in there too so that whilst we rocked her to sleep, she would be in the room with the humidifier. (We shall save the discussion about her still being in our room for another post…where I hope the discussion is about putting her in her own room.)

So the first few nights this was happening, we would take turns getting up and rocking her back to sleep. But it would take like an hour or so b/c as soon as she was out, we would put her back down, and then the screeching cries would ensue. One night I even fell asleep myself only to wake up an hour later. But then she would wake up an hour after that. And one night, I was up with her from 4-5:30AM as every time she would pass out in my arms, I would try to put her down, but she wasn’t having it. GAH!!!!!

So fast forward to this week where we decided to give her a bottle when she first wakes up in the hopes that it would alleviate any other waking up times before the usual 6am time we get up during the week. This has seemed to work for the past few days, except now, she is waking up around 5am and it’s really pointless to put her down after she eats. GAH!!!!!

So I’m at a crossroads right now. I’ve never had to deal with sleep training…I know…I know…many of you probably want to stab my eyes out…but we’ve just been that lucky. We thought that the karma police was looking down on us for some goodness after having to spend the first 10 days of her life in the hospital. I mean we deserved some goodness…right?

But now, as Abby is about to be 8 months old, we’re reverting back in time.

I don’t know what could be causing this or how to fix it. I did notice on Thursday that she’s cutting another tooth, but when she cut her first one, she soundly slept through the night. Whenever something works with a baby, count on it not working again…right? I don’t know if it could be coincidence or not that this started happening around the time I stopped nursing her. (insert link to yesterday’s post) I just don’t know!

So what are your thoughts? Is this a phase? Am I in for it with sleep training? Is there not one answer b/c as we’ve learned, every kid is different?

I just would like some sleep again.

EDIT: When I first wrote this post, it was Thursday night. Now it is Friday night. Last night she actually slept 8 hours. I was so freaking happy to see 5am on the clock when I heard her get up. Can you imagine…being happy to wake up at 5am. Still, though, something is definitely amiss.

EDIT: And now…oh now…It’s Saturday AM…6am…Abby woke up 3 times last night and is now ready to party. GAH!!!! I’m so effing tired!!!!