Tired. Just Tired.

I am so terribly terribly tired.  

The Sir is, too.  If we could safely be put into a medically induced coma and for a low fee, I think we would consider it. 

Baby Bean is still refusing to sleep in any sort of pattern that has any rhyme or reason…she will not nap, she will not sleep, she DOES NOT like green eggs and ham. 

And although my Postpartum Depression is much much better, the sleep deprivation is not helping with the morale of the household.  Lack of sleep is causing me to have frequent migraines and although I didn't think it was possible, humans can indeed fall asleep while standing up.

Apparently, the Bean is supposed to be in the midst of the “4 Month Sleep Regression” which allegedly should have ended ONE WEEK AGO. Haven’t seen any difference, she’s just as crazy as usual.

The girl is the queen of a cat nap despite being born into a house of expert nappers…the beagle naps AT LEAST ten times a day in order to maintain his rosy glow.  The minute we put the Bean down, it’s a race to get anything completed, because we all know she’ll be in up in 30 minutes or less.  She would be a great Jimmy John’s delivery girl.

At night, she goes through her bedtime routine at the same time every day---she gets a relaxing warm bath, her room is infused with lavender oil via a diffuser, she gets a mini massage with yummy smelling lotion, and then is wrapped up in soft footsie jammies---she’s basically going to a baby spa every night.  And although this routine would put me into a coma, it only gets us about three blissful hours of a silent baby before the crazy baby noises of the night begin.  And when she does start to wake up, she’s not necessarily fussy, she just thinks that 1:33AM is a great time to have a deep conversation about her four months of life.

We have tried it all…swaddling/non-swaddling. Putting her to bed drowsy/putting her to bed dead asleep. Pacifier/no pacifier.  Bed by 7 pm/Bed by 9pm.  Wake her up at the same time every morning/Letting her sleep until she wakes up. Changing her diaper throughout the night/changing her in the morning. Snuggling her when she cries/ninja moves into her room so as to go undetected when inserting her pacifier back into her mouth.

And although I know that some nighttime waking for someone so tiny is completely normal, this waking up every hour or less to hear my daughter make yell screaming noises or blowing bubbles is just not working for my mental sanity. 

She sure is cute at 3AM though.

And thank goodness for that, because someone handed me a baby that thinks sleep is optional and if she wasn’t so cute, I would leave her at the fire station so I could nap.