Conspiracy!

The last time I had a night of uninterrupted sleep must have been way before Eaindra was born. She turned 1 last week.

Of course one knows that sleep is a treasured commodity when you have a baby. It is also common knowledge that the weeks before a baby is due, mama gets very little sleep since it is terribly difficult to be comfortable with such a huge baby-tummy. 

Our little one hasn’t mastered the art of sleeping through the night yet. In December she was well on her way with waking me up only once or twice a night. Then she got a cold and all bets were off.

Ever since that time, something will happen to make sure I will not get even 5 hours of continuous sleep. If it isn’t Eaindra than someone else or even something else will make sure I’m awoken before those precious hours have past. Like the last couple of days. Eaindra was doing well and I seemed to be on my way of getting a few hours of real sleep when something woke me. Xenne had sju-sju-ed in his bed so up we got and changed his bedding. He was asleep again real fast.  Great.  Unfortunately  Eaindra was wide awake by that time. It took me another 2 hours to get her back to sleep well enough so I could put her down. She has the habit of sensing exactly when I let her go and usually wakes up right there and then and I can start all over again.

The next night Xenne was trashing around in his bed and eventually crawled into ours. Of course, that woke me up but I wasn’t sleeping much anyway because of his continuous moving about. I got him back to sleep, checked on EAindra and found she had followed her big brother’s example: she was all wet. Luckily the bed wasn’t really so we didn’t need to change everything this time. For me, the interruptions weren’t over because KK decided to snore loudly that night. Horror!

The evening after the power was cut at 7 pm. This happens sometimes and normally we have power again shortly after and it is rare that it lasts a couple of hours. Xenne and Eaindra went to bad easily so my hopes were up. At 9 pm we had a flicker of light but the power stayed off. Again at somewhere just after 10 pm. Shortly after I decided to go to bed. I thought I’d switched off all the lights but at about half past one I woke up because of a light I’d forgotten and the aircon switching on. I closed the windows that I had opened earlier and went back to sleep. At about 12, Eaindra had put in an appearance for a bottle already so I didn’t have to worry about that. At somewhere between 3 and 4 I woke up again because I was hot. The power was off again and I realized that it was easier to turn off the aircon and open the windows again. All stayed quiet untl 6 am when the kids woke up….

The last 2 days I’ve had  only had a night-time bottle for  Eaindra at around 1 am, a quick check when either one of them is uneasy in their sleep (they seem to alternate this between the two of them) and the 6 o’clock waking up of either Xenne or Eaindra. It looks like we’re slowly getting back to a more normal sleep pattern.

Needless to say that KK sleeps through  most of this and usually only wakes up when called upon urgently or shaken awake.