I keep running into people who tell me they have babies that simply mangiano e dormono. I hate these people and feel violentally jealous of them. Unfortunately, my baby doesn't just "eat and sleep." He eats. A lot. He cries. A lot. He fusses. A lot. He sleeps. Sporadically and whenever he damn well feels like it and usually not at times when I could catch a nap myself, such as when I am pushing him in the stroller or when we are driving down the street. On good nights he wakes up twice. On bad nights he wakes up every hour. We are approaching 12 weeks and I thought he was supposed to be sleeping through the night by now. In these 12 weeks I have never ONCE woken up feeling refreshed and rested. Not once. I'm hitting my breaking point. I feel I will go the way of the woman whose husband and baby we ran into in the mall a few weeks ago.
We were in the mall looking for a birthday gift for Cristiano's dad. Cristiano and Dylan went ahead of me and as I went to catch up with them I noticed Cristiano was talking to another dad who was pushing a baby in the same stroller we have. It was one of those moments that initially seemed really cute but then kind of weirded me out. These two dads were talking performance and sort of "kicking the tires" of each other's strollers. Apparently this guy was pushing his kid around the mall so the mother could sleep as the baby had never slept through the night and the mother was - in his words - "absolutely destroyed." The dad said "We have to be out by 1 p.m. and she won't let us come home before 5:30 p.m." This baby was seven months old! And as the dad rolled away with his kid in our same stroller, he said, "Just wait until vaccinations. They sleep even worse after..." This was a few days before we were set to get Dylan's first vaccinations. Am I destined to only get unbroken sleep for a few hours on Saturday afternoons? Is Cristiano destined to spend his Saturday afternoons pushing Dylan aimlessly around the mall because I've locked them out until a set hour?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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