Saturday, September 20, 2008

Ugh... joys of 4am feedings


Current mood: tired

I AM SO TIRED!!!!! sorry had to say that...
Well tonight started off as any other night. I bathed the little one, fed her, her bedtime bottle and off to dream land she went. I put her down in her crib and she didn't put up a fight at all. (This was around 7:30pm)

I went to bed around 9 but couldn't sleep till past 10. Then I awoke to her struggling and whining, yep it was her late night feeding time. It was early too, she usually wakes up around 3 but this time it was 1:30am. No biggy, I got her bottle ready, set up the bed so I could feed her. Changed her diaper and fed her. She went to sleep again without much fuss and off to bed she went. After cleaning up everything I was in bed again by 2:30. Off to dream land I went as well.... aaaaaah rest... finally...

Then BOOM 4:30 hit and up wakes Mia. Yes she was hungry AGAIN so up I went, set up the bed for a another feeding (this time I wasn't prepared in advanced so I had to go downstairs to fix a new bottle). I changed her diaper ..hmm.. not to wet... ah well, up went Mia and I fed her. She began falling asleep again (phew good..) and off I went to put her back in her crib, but I noticed something... she didn't smell too fresh! Yep she was wet... now comes the dilemma: she’s sleepy right now I can put her down and she will sleep for a bit but I risk 2 things, she may wake up extra early because of her wet diaper (she hate being wet) or she will go a long time and end up with a rash. SIGH!... off came her diaper and on came a fresh one. She began struggling as I myself struggled with those darn snap jammies that have like 1000000 snaps on them! FINALLY I got it on, then I heard a crinklying sound I looked over and the dumb cat was in the room eating something off the floor! Before I could give Mia her binky I had to race over and take whatever was in the cat's mouth (in the dark) and I dropped her binky! Off ran the cat and off ran me to the bathroom to clean her binky. When I got back little Miss Mia was no longer sleepy. She just looked up at me and smiled and began talking....great.... She still had about an ounce left in her bottle so I decided maybe she will get sleepy again after eating that. So off to the room we went again, I fed her that last oz and she got sleepy (YAY!) I picked her up and noticed her bottom was a little warm... yep she went pee pee again! ARRGH! so off went her jammies on came a new dry diaper and open went Mia's eyes. (I blame the 100000 snap jammies... that’s it she’s wearing night gowns from now on!) I carried her off to bed anyways hoping shed get sleepy when I turned on her little fishy musical tank on her crib, but nope now I hear she has the hiccups now .... ARRGH! I will never get any sleep. Joys of Motherhood and 4 am feedings... you just have to laugh about it!

**** 5:43am update****

Well she finally started drifting off to sleep (hiccups and all) when her musical fishy tank automatically shut off... that woke her up because she started crying. I turned it back on and gave her, her binky but looks like she might want to get up... sigh ... will I ever know what sleep is again!??!