I feel for you and remember that phase all.to.well! DS8 rarely slept as an infant...I was so exhausted that first 2 years, I barely remember any of it. My husband was deployed for the majority of those two years as well so I can't even say it was his work schedule...my child just did not believe sleep was necessary! I even tried herbal liquid remedies suggested by herbalists to promote inner " calming ", you name it... I tried it. Some little ones just do not think sleep is important. Do you stick to a pretty regular schedule with the little one or is it really random? I know when I had DS2/3 (twins) when DS8 was 3 years old...I KNEW there would be a strict schedule if I was to survive two of them through infancy and a toddler that didn't sleep. From the day I brought them home they were schedule babies and sleep came way more natural to them...DS8 was never on a schedule so I'm not sure if thats where I went wrong.
Some kids are just exhausting in their earlier years...however there is a light at the end of the tunnel...my DS8 decided sleep was important at about 5 haha...and now even sleeps IN if he can...( now I make HIM wake up as torture back
Hopefully little one will decide that naps are important for her and mommy!
Well that gives me hope! I just called my mil to ask when DH started sleeping. I thought she said as a 1 year old. No, she actually said FOUR years old. Ahhh.
So, DH and I have been trying to get ourselves on a routine for a long long time and we haven't ever done it. I'm really trying so hard to get it together for our child, if nothing else. I've finally succeeded in making most of our meals "whole foods" and not processed, and I've gotten a lot of the chemicals out of our house, but there is so much left undone. I think my own perfectionism is showing, here. I have this ideal way I want things to be and maybe I'm asking too much of myself. I don't know. There seem to be other supermamas out there that manage to enrich their children's lives in all kinds of ways, cook organic vegan meals all day long, keep a clean home and still have time to blog about it lol.
Oh and boy do I feel for you with the deployments! Dh used to be in the military and those deployments were so hard. I can't imagine going through them with a baby.
