Admitting Is The First Step

Homegirl is almost 1-year-old and still not sleeping through the night consistently. There, I said it. I am owning it and admitting it.

"Oh my child is 5 months and is sleeping 12 hours a night. It's such a beautiful thing. I don't know how I could go on without the sleep." It's statements like these that make me want to bodyslam people. Apparently it's not a very normal thing that a baby who is almost a toddler isn't sleeping through the night. But at least we're not like we used to be: wake up, play for three hours, then back asleep. Now she wakes up, we change her buns, and give her a bottle, and *poof* back to sleep.

And yes, we let her have her bottle in bed. I can already feel the scornful looks from you mothers who are against this. But you know what? At 3:30 in the morning, I am in no mood to bottle feed Nyla. I love my child, desperately. But I swear the day she learned to hold a bottle by herself was the best day of my life. It will only be trumped when she is potty-trained.

So we've got about two weeks until Nyla turns 1..don't even get me started on that subject! But here comes 14 days, and in those 14 days, I'd like to get this sleeping business under control. I doubt that's in Nyla's agenda though. We will see!