ZZZZ

I haven't talked about Avery's sleeping habits lately and I wish that meant that things were fine.  It doesn't, it means I'm too tired to blog about it.  Avery continues to be terrible in the sleep department.  Her typical timeline goes something like this:

7:30: go to sleep.
11 - wake up
1: wake up
3: wake up
6: wake up

Every. damn. night.  And just about every wake up, I am nursing Avery because its the easiest damn way to get her to go back to sleep.  Earlier in the week, I put my foot down when she woke at 3am and had already been fed twice.  I sent Eric in, she cried.  We let her cry a while, then Eric took her to our guest room bed where she just hung out for 20 minutes.  Then he put her back in the bed where she started a new crying session.  So at 4:30, I ended up just giving in and feeding her which resulted in even less sleep and extra annoyance for even trying to resist.

And that's when I decided that the third floor would be my saving grace.

I decided the next night, I would feed Avery the first time she woke up, then I'd disappear into our secluded third floor and let Eric, the hardest sleeper in America, deal with Avery (which would probably mean not deal with her).

So 11 pm came, and like clockwork, Avery woke, I fed her, and had the most wonderful sleep (except my body couldn't resist waking at 3 am).  Eric called me at 6 am when Avery woke and I felt like a new woman with a decent night's sleep.  I asked how she did and Eric said she cried for about 20 minutes at 3 am.  Pretty good.  I'm not convinced that she didn't wake up another time, but if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a noise?

Next night, same thing.  I feed her when she wakes at 11 and disappear until Eric brings her up to me at 6 am.  How did she do? I ask.  She didn't wake up all night!  he says.  There's about a 1% chance that is true, but again, tree, forest, noise.

Last night was the Duke/Carolina game and Avery sensed the pain of the Heels and woke up soon after they lost.  I fed her, but stayed on the main floor since I didn't see it responsible to escape to the third floor with Eric gone.  Avery woke at 3, but I ignored her (pretended I was on another floor) and she went back to sleep after 10 minutes or so.  And woke up at 5, but still, progress.

If you're not asleep by now just reading about a baby's sleeping habits, congrats.  I'm pretty over the whole thing myself, and I think my disappearance brings us one step closer to better sleep.  If Avery had even 20% of her daddy's sleep habits, she'd be in good shape.  The guy can outsleep anyone out there.