Tonight Sucks
It is 2:30 AM. I have been up for 2 hours with screaming babies. One settles and 10 minutes later the other wakes up. I’ve had to walk away before I scream “Shut up and go to sleep!”
Did I mention I’m sick too? I’ve been blowing bloody snot out my nose for a week and my sinus pressure has been so bad it makes my teeth ache. I’ve been sick with one thing or another pretty much since Christmas. I can’t get better because I can’t get sleep. I can’t parent well during the day because I am sick and miserable. My immune system is shot because I can’t get any sleep. Did I mention I can’t get any sleep?
That night weaning thing is not going so well. Thanks for asking.
Stumble it!
and the 529 college savings accounts get a kickback.
February 7th, 2008 09:07
Hugs to you – I can relate to the no sleep and poor parenting .. but i blame my blog on the later. Night weaning – see your post the other day …well one of my sons at least.
Sorry you are having a difficult time Stacie. The days must be busy too it J & F are like my little mischief makers.
Does offering chocolate help ?
February 7th, 2008 09:38
So sorry about your nights! Sounds really stressful. I know it can get in an endless cycle of sleep deprivation, crabby kiddos, crabby mama, etc. I hope that you are all healthy and sleeping better soon.
February 7th, 2008 09:49
Oh dear.
February 7th, 2008 09:58
Thinking of you – feel better soon. Maybe you should spend their first day at school curled up on the couch?
February 7th, 2008 11:24
Oh…I feel for you. Not sick here, but I find myself yelling. A lot. Nic is going through major clinginess and separation anxiety, I can’t even leave the room, and Julia starts wailing when she hears her sister, just for fun. And they throw up when they get too hysterical. D has been at the friggin’ WESTIN in Cabo. San. Lucas. all week “on business,” and I want to scream. Did I mention that Nic flipped herself over the side of the play yard yesterday. On the hunt for some sort of new “containment” system. Will take recommendations…Calgon take me away. Hope you feel better soon.
February 7th, 2008 11:24
I’m sorry! I was hoping you were having better luck with the nightweaning because I’m desperate for advice myself. My girls just WILL NOT sleep either and I’m feeling just like you. Exhausted, sick, and just ready to give up!
February 7th, 2008 13:09
Are there coupons for organic sinus medication?
February 7th, 2008 20:52
I’m so sorry to hear this – sorry and empathetic, as my boys are doing the same bloody thing. Being alone at night with screaming babies and a sleeping spouse – usually sleeping with my consent and encouragement, of course, but that makes no difference – is so isolating.
February 7th, 2008 21:26
Ugh. It isn’t fun, is it? Sorry it’s not going well.
I wind up cursing my husband every night, because he never gets up with them. On the rare occasions that he does, they scream when they see him, because they’re not used to seeing him in the middle of the night. I’m kicking myself for not making him go in often when the babies were younger. Now they will only settle for me. Harumph.
February 7th, 2008 23:17
so sorry. I know how you feel. I hate how I am the day after an all night screamathon. Hope it ends soon and you get some rest.
February 7th, 2008 23:37
Have you ever heard of a nettie pot? I swear by it when I have sinus colds and headaches, clears it up in half the time, and all natural. They are available at most drugstores, if not the pharmacist can order you one. It is shaped like a teapot and you fill it with salt water, then put the neck up your nose, then tilt your head to the side and the water will come out the other side. Do it 2-3 times a day, and make sure you do both sides.
February 7th, 2008 23:52
i hope tonight will be better. i remember nights like that too. sometime they will sleep. really. mine do now (at 5.5)- usually:) hope you feel better soon.
February 8th, 2008 10:11
Oh man. ((hugs))
February 8th, 2008 13:26
Yuck i am sorry (((((Hugs)))))
We had a fun night too, though maybe not as bad as yours. Max was vomiting all night, but he seemed pretty happy about it. Theo couldn’t sleep because his comfy spot in our bed had been taken by the vomiting baby(who usually sleeps on his own). The hubby, of course, slept through the whole thing.
Just wanted to say, i feel your pain…as much as i can feel anything through this daze of sleeplessness…
February 8th, 2008 13:37
One reason Brian was unable to help was he was away on a business trip. Now that he is back he took all the wakings last night, though F decided to be persnickety and wouldn’t go to sleep until 10:00.