My daughter goes through sleep phases that I swear would drive Charles Manson sane.
This child is 23 months old and can go for 2 hours on as little as 5 minutes of sleep. That’s even after going all day long without a nap! I rock the child to sleep after a long day and Matt takes her to her crib and lays her down. If I take her to the crib, she pops up in a second and she’s wide awake for God knows how long. But last night, even with Matt tucking her in, she was up and at ‘em! Matt put her in her crib at approximately 11:00 PM and by 11:05 she was up, in my lap again and ready to go! She didn’t give up again until 1:00 AM.
Let her cry it out, you say? Sure! Only if you’ll come over to the house and clean up her sheets and give her a bath. The child screams until she pukes if you try to let her CIO.
And the palate team nurses call her “willful”.
We dream of sleep.
