Sleepy Baby

Yesterday was an interesting day. Alli was doing great until it came for sleep. She sleeps great during the night, don't get me wrong. But during the day, there are many times that she just wants to be held. Yesterday was one of them. So, I put my "tough parent" hat on and decided that she needed to learn to sleep during the day without being in mommy's arms. I let her cry (just for a couple of minutes though) quite a few times. She was soooo tired. If she fell asleep with me holding her, she would wake up 5 minutes after I put her down. I keep thinking that this is not a good thing for when I go back to work, so she's going to have to learn to sleep without being held.

After her 7pm feeding, she fell asleep. I figured that she would be out for the night since she hadn't had much more than a 1/2 hour nap during the day. (Ok, there were probably about 4 half hour naps, but that's not good sleep.) In some ways, it was really nice having her fall asleep for the night so early. Kim and I got to watch a movie together before I got so tired I had to go to bed. At 1am, I woke up and heard her sucking. I figured I better go to the bathroom and prepare myself for the feeding. But she fell back to sleep. I went to bed listening for her to wake up... At 3:45am, I woke up realizing it had been about 9 hours since her last feeding. While I love the fact that she's such a good night sleeper, I fear that she is too young and too small to be able to go that long without food. So I took it upon myself to wake her up. Let me tell you, that was no small feat. I finally got her awake enough to feed and I felt much better about it.

So here are my thoughts. 1) I keep forgetting that I still have 3 weeks before going back to work and she could change into a completely different kid by then, so it's probably a little early to start worrying about her routine. 2) I forget that she doesn't *always* need me to hold her for daytime naps, so maybe I should just listen to her when she does. 3) I don't know why I am so forgetful of the above points during the time that these things are going on!!!