I feel like we've had a bit of a breakthrough the last two nights. The night before, Simon slept about eight hours between feedings. Last night he did 9.5 hours, then did another three before being up for the day (naps aside). Granted, it could be influenced by his poor daytime napping skills, and he's having a lot of bouts of crabby as his two little teeth become more obvious. Still, it's progress.
It's all good news, but unfortunately we're kind of a mess. Diana is enduring some dizziness at times. I'm theorizing it's outright fatigue and lingering hormones, because her sleep patterns are awful and at times she has a hard time shutting off her brain. Plus, I don't want it to be a revisit of 2008's vertigo issues, particularly since we don't have the rocket scientist at Cleveland Clinic to go to. I can sympathize as well in terms of sleep issues, as Zyrtec kicked my ass for much of the weekend, and then last night I was on high alert waiting for Simon to get up so I could feed him and let Diana sleep. I never expected him to wait until 2:30 a.m.!
Sleep is still the hardest thing around here. It's easier for me during the week since I've gotta try and lock down seven hours on school nights or I'll be shit for work. (Don't even go there, Aaron!) Diana really gets the worst of it, and isn't a good napper because she always has something she wants to do or Simon won't stay asleep. It does take some work to stay positive, and know that Simon will eventually sleep overnight. Scheduling overall is hard. Even as I leave work by 4:30, I'm still lucky to get an hour or two with Simon, and Diana rolls into bed early because she has to, so family time just kinda sucks at times because it's so short. It'll get better, and we both know this.
If anything good came out of crappy weather this week and Simon's cranky teething time, it's that we all got to spend a lot of time together. I'll take it.
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