Thursday, March 23, 2006

Time to Referberize

Noah had been doing so good sleeping until a couple of weeks ago. I'm not really sure what happened, but we're back into the same old routine. Overall, he's been pretty clingy and kind of crabby. I think he might be having a slight case of separation anxiety. Last night I tried to rock him to sleep with him laying in my arms, which is always kind of a struggle. He kept squirming around like he always does, but was clawing his way towards my shoulder. He ended up hugging me and putting his head on my shoulder and fell asleep this way, which is kind of unusual. After a while I laid down with him sleeping next to me. He woke up and looked around to make sure I was still there. When he realized I was, he crawled towards me until he was touching me. I kept waiting for him to fall asleep and then inch away from him. Every time he would wake up and move closer to me. He finally crawled over to me, knelt on his knees and draped his body over mine and fell asleep that way. After he did that, I just didn't have the heart to make him move. I let him sleep on top of me for quite a while before I put him in his crib. That only lasted for about 5 minutes. He woke up, stood up his crib, and proceeded to scream - not cry - but scream. If I thought the crying was bad, the screaming is ten times worse. That sound just goes straight through me. I know I shouldn't, but I let him sleep with me again. He hasn't slept by himself for almost a week now. I know I'm going to have to do something, but I just don't think I have it in me to let him scream all night - especially if he really is having separation anxiety.

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