Ok, so I finally got tired of being tired all the time. Neither Shawn nor I were getting a full night of sleep because Keira had gotten back into the habit of waking up twice a night. One of us would feed her, snuggle her and put her back to bed. It's so hard to resist picking her up when she's crying...and she's still sleeping in our room (which is a topic for another day...). Anyway, Saturday night we got home late from visiting Holly, Jeff, and Tyler (after doing some birthday shopping for my *almost 1 year old girl*). We went to bed, and after a couple of hours, Keira started crying again. I lay in bed for about 10 minutes listening to her and hoping she'd fall back to sleep. She didn't, so I got up and went to her. She was standing up and reaching for me, but I somehow managed to resist picking her up and lay her back down instead. I patted her back and talked to her for a couple of minutes then got back into my bed. She cried (and screamed) for about 30 more (LONG and TORTUROUS) minutes, then was calm and quiet. I got up to check on her and she was sound asleep. She didn't wake up until 6:00 Sunday morning.
Sunday night she cried for about 30 minutes total and fell back to sleep. Since then, she hasn't woken up and cried at all. I am pretty excited about this development. At first I felt like I deserved the "World's MEANEST Mom Award" for letting her cry. But, she wasn't wet, dirty or hungry, so I knew that she was just tired. And after getting TWO FULL NIGHTS OF SLEEP, I'm feeling like a pretty good Mom after all.
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