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I’m having an “incompetent mommy” day

June 4, 2009 by Miranda 1 Comment

So Joshua isn’t a very good daytime napper. He didn’t sleep very well last night, and almost never sleeps for much longer than four hours at a stretch, which I know is “normal” but once he gets the first four hour stretch, he only goes for one or two more hours after he falls back to sleep–unless I hold him.

If I hold him, he will sleep for-eh-ver.

Except for today.

He napped from about 10 to noonish, on me, in the recliner. Then he woke up and I changed the diaper, we played, he ate, and I tried putting him back to sleep for a nap around 1:00 because he was showing signs of being tired. He slept for 45 minutes. When I put him down, BAM! wide open eyes. Until I picked him up. Then they closed.

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So it’s completely obvious that he’s tired. His eyes are all red-rimmed and he’s yawning.

I swaddled him at 2:50 and started nursing/rocking him. He would fall almost asleep and then be wide awake and squirming and fighting the swaddle. I tried taking an arm out of the swaddle and he stopped fighting it, but won’t fall asleep and stay asleep.

I had to pee soooo bad. After 25 minutes of rocking him and him fighting sleep and squirming around, I laid him down in the pack n play.

He is babbling away to himself and fussing right now. I feel horrible because I feel like I cannot soothe my child.

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  1. Rocky Mountain Mama says

    June 5, 2009 at 9:50 am

    OMG! This was me last night. CJ normally does pretty well at night, but last night he would not go back to sleep after his 2am feeding. So, I was up from 1:45-5ish off and on because he was fussing. Ugh!

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