11.05.05
Good morning, sunshine
It is currently 6:28 AM. A fairly reasonable time for someone to be up in the morning, right? Wrong. At least for me it’s so wrong. I am not a morning person by nature. Never have been (except for undocumented claims by my mother of my infanthood. I don’t remember it, you can’t prove it!).
I have been attempting to fix Elisabeth’s sleep schedule, meaning lots of frustration on both of our parts. So far it’s been slow going. In my limited successes in getting her to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour (which at this point is anytime before 6 am in my opinion), I forgot to address the fact that I am used to being awake at night now. I’ve always been a night person, but not since my days of college have I been so often awake until sunrise. So now my family is sleeping peacefully. Elisabeth woke to nurse at around 5 this morning and promptly went back to sleep. I, however, lay there wide awake, because as my body now knows well, when I wake up, I need to WAKE UP. I have become so accustomed to grabbing sleep when I can that now there is no such thing as a regular nighttime sleep pattern. Isn’t sleep training supposed to work the other way around??