“She’s an angel all day, but at nighttime it’s war!” -Quote from my husband.
It’s amazing that almost all babies are born with their nights and days switched. Our little girl is 7 weeks old and can sleep almost every minute of the day (although I’ll admit she is having more alert hours while the sun is still up), but at night we have to trick her into sleeping. This requires putting her in a food-induced coma, rocking her, playing lullabies, singing to her, swaddling her, playing a sound machine…anything that the books, the doctors, the family, and the friends say will work.
It seems like the bouncers and swings and cradles that jostle her around, not only put her to sleep faster, but KEEP her asleep. So why haven’t they invented rocking or vibrating cribs? I should be calling my patent attorney right now and get this thing going. Well, I’m sure there is a medical or developmental reason why cribs shouldn’t move, but it does make sense to me.
So here I am now, writing this entry at 3:15 am, because I just finished feeding my little one at 2:10, then I rocked her and made sure she was asleep for about 20 minutes, and for the last 45 minutes she has been sleeping in her crib! But guess who also has her night and days switched now? That’s correct! I used to crash as soon as my head hit the pillow and now I want to sleep all day with her and stay up writing blogs at night. Oh wait, I hear her kvetching right now…gotta go do some mothering! Until we meet again….
You have a patent attorney???
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