The night life in our family has been very interesting lately. Now you would think that the biggest disruption to regular sleep would be from the little one, this is not so. She sleeps from 10 till anywhere between 4.30 and 6 which is quite good, so my lack of sleep does not come from her feeding routine. However, all is not perfect, she is a grunter and will grunt for up to an hour and a half after her feed, she is not upset she just grunts. If I had the room I would move her out of our room so I could easily fall back to sleep again but at the moment that is not an option so she grunts and I wish I was a heavy sleeper.

She is a minor disruption to sleep, Husband is another, he has deadlines looming for work and so has been up till at least 2 sometimes 4 in the morning working just about every night. Needless to say when he comes to bed he is not the most stealthy.

That brings us to Wrigglebot, we have been trying to get him to sleep in his ‘big boy bed’ and our efforts have not all been successful. We have been at it about a week now and as long as we stand guard at the door he will stay in bed and eventually fall asleep. In fact last night we simply closed his door and after a little crying and banging on the door we found him asleep in his bed, so success. The difficulty comes because he wriggles so much, some nights he can fall out of bed as many as four times, hysterically crying each time. After some big bumps on his head we put his cot mattress on the floor to aid his landing and that seems to have helped. We resisted getting a rail because he is such a climber and we figured he would just fall further as he climbed over it.

So that’s what has been happening in my nights. One day I might get a full eight hours of sleep again, until then I will nap, day and night.

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