Amelia still takes two to four hours of soothing to go to sleep for longer than 20 minutes at a time. WTF??? She's tired--exhausted even. Why does that not translate to sleep? When she's hungry, she cries, I give her a boob, she eats. Yet when she's tired and she cries and I soothe her to the brink of deep sleep, her eyes fly open and she is suddenly WIDE AWAKE and mad as hell about it.
I had no idea Henry was such a brilliant sleeper.
This gets better, right? Anyone with kids who didn't sleep right off the bat? I mean, I'll be sleeping more than four hours a night by next February, right? Maybe? Throw me a bone. I need some glimmer of hope to cling to.
And back to the gender stereotyping. MargaretJames blogged about people giving her son NASCAR sheets. The only thing worse than big machines being shoved down the throats of little boys is the offal that gets presented to little girls. Can't they wear anything other than pink? And not just pink--I have nothing against pink, I got her a couple of T-shirts with little salmon-pink birds on them--but Pepto-Bismol pink. With flowers. And ruffles. And maybe bunny rabbits with pink bows on them. Christ. Let's just change her name to Princess and be done with it.
I know--crab, crab, crab. Things are actually fine. Great, even. The fact that I have time to write this is a testament to the fact that my life is not over, as I had thought in the first couple of days. There's still a lot of crying in this house, but now it's mostly Amelia and Henry, and not so much me. Progress!
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Beck was a terrible sleeper and I never got much more than 2-3 hours until he was maybe 3 or 4 months old. It didn't get truly good until we sleep trained around 8 months, but we could have done that earlier if we'd had more will power. Anyway, it got better. I will never understand evolution. Why don't babies know how to sleep when they are tired? WTF indeed!
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