Annabella wasn't just a good sleeper, she was a great sleeper. She was an A+ sleeper. She was a genius at sleeping, a real baby prodigy. Thank heavens for this journal entry or I might have thought my sleep-deprived mind was playing tricks on me when I remembered that she started sleeping through the night when she six weeks old.
Has there ever been a mother who was lucky enough to have been blessed with more than one good sleeper? I would have been happy with two out of three. I would even have been OK with two bad sleepers, just as long as they didn't happen to have been born at the same time.
But when six weeks passed and the boys were still waking up every few hours, we were disappointed, but not in despair. Even at four months, we were cautiously optimistic every evening that the boys would sleep (or at least let us sleep) for more than a four hour stretch. True despair probably set in at six months. And then eight months passed. And then nine. At nearly a year they were still waking up at 4:30 am screaming, wet, hungry, and very, very angry.
Lets get something straight. I love my boys. They are two of the sweetest little tan munchkins that ever crawled on this earth. They are both this complicated combination of cuteness and swarthiness. Each day they amaze me with their huge smiles, uncontrollable laughter, and endless capacity for cuddling. And they are so lucky that they are so loveable because otherwise I would hate them for not letting me sleep more.
Do you have any idea what eleven months of sleep deprivation does to a person? If you don't, I hope that you never do. If you do, I hope that you have people in your life who can remind you that life was not always like this and will not always be like this and that you should definitely not strangle the next person who tells you to "cherish these moments because they grow up so fast!"
Who knew that the solution to all my problems was a more absorbent diaper? I cannot say enough good things about the Huggies Overnight diaper. They are the only things that keep my boys from being a sopping mess at four in the morning. And as a result, for the past few days (a little under a week before their first birthdays) the boys have slept straight through from 7 pm until 6 am. Maybe it was daylight savings time that turned 6 am into the new 5 am. And maybe they saw the glint of insanity in my eyes that convinced them that cuteness can only take you so far. And maybe they were just ready to sleep longer. Whatever the case may be, I'm not taking any chances. I'm keeping Huggies Overnights in stock forever.
Lol! Thank you! That was helpful as well as humorous. I was SO jealous when I first started reading this because my Annabella is Not a good sleeper at all! So I can definitely relate to living sleep deprived. Ahh. I hope these diapers help us!
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