Parents and Sleep: My kids are great sleepers. All three go to bed at seven and wake up at seven (give or take a few). They all go to bed fairly well- I of course hear the normal "just one mores" from my two-year old and four-year old... one more drink, got to go potty again... but really they go to sleep pretty easily.
But still, it seems like more often than I would like one of them is up in the night for some valid reason or another- bad dream, potty, sick, got stuck, fell out of bed, started rolling over and didn't like it, or whatever it may be. And although many times they go back to sleep without me even getting up, I still get woken up. This causes interruption in my sleep cycles, possibly causing the thoughts I had put to rest hours ago to begin again, the need to go potty, or whatever else adds to my sleep pause. Why is it that a mother's ears are so attune to their child's voices?
I love my babies, and I am so blessed to be able to take care of them full-time, but sometimes you just have to complain :). And I have been told numerous times by an amazing woman that this is the tiredest you will ever be. Sleep will come mamas.
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I feel the same way! My kids are good sleepers, and my daughter rarely ever wakes up in the night, but my son is usually up at least once to potty. It would be nice to just go the whole night without being woken up!!! Hopefully soon...
My mother-in-law said that my husband would get up once every night just to come tap her on the chest, then he'd go back to bed. She said it drove her crazy, because he didn't even need anything. I asked her how long it lasted - until he was eight!
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