...what it was like to sleep for five hours straight. Last night, Julie and I went to Ben's softball game (where I got about 10 bug bites that swelled up into HUGE welts like I haven't had in over 12 years), so she got to bed late. I fed her around 9:00pm (two hours past her normal bedtime) and put her down to sleep. She didn't actually fall asleep until closer to 10:00pm. I went to bed at 11:00pm. She didn't wake up to eat again until 4:30am! It was so nice. I slept so well and felt really refreshed when I woke up to get her. She fed and went back down by 5:00am, and didn't wake me up again until 8:30am, at which point we stayed up.
Since she was born, I've said that I've been sleeping better than I did during my 3rd trimester with her, and that's true. I wake up more frequently than I did while I was pregnant, but I'm sleeping better in between. In the last week or two, however, I have been going to bed later and later, and also getting up later and later, and just feeling more and more groggy in the mornings. I realized this morning just how much that was catching up to me. I felt so different when I woke up for her at 4:30 than I have in over a week getting up to get her. It was really nice.
2 comments:
yay Julie! Good job letting Mama sleep through the night!
As much as I don't Love getting up early in the morning I am still a morning person. So lately the kids have been sleeping in later and so have I and I notice it kind of makes me grumpier when I do get up.
I just feels better to go to sleep a little earlier and get up a little earlier. I'm sure you felt fantastic after a decent nights sleep, welts and all. Congratulations, it just got a little easier.
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