Late Night

Here we are at the start of another evening. Last night was not great. AB woke up only an hour after I'd put her to bed so I nursed her back to sleep then went to bed myself. She woke up the second time at 1:50am. I tried letting her cry a bit at first because she wasn't really upset and I thought she might just put herself back to sleep. But no. When I went in to see her, I kept the lights out, I turned on her music machine quietly and placed her back down in her crib. She cried and crawled up the side of the crib to a stand. So I kissed her, told her it was bed time, time for sleep and placed her back on the bed. Sometimes I would gently rub her tummy while she stared at the music machine. She was less apt to cry when I would rub her tummy or her side. This went on for well over an hour. When I thought she was calm and ready to go to sleep I would either sit on the bed that is in the room (where DD seems somewhat obliviously sleeping) or I would step out of the room. Every time she realized she was alone and would begin to howl. In the end, I gave up and brought her out to the rocking chair and nursed her back to sleep. I was so glad this worked because on other nights she just wants to play and isn't interested in sleeping or nursing. When I crawled back in bed the clock read 3:55am. I was so pooped.