I think as parents we often predict that our newborns will leave us with sleepless nights. As our babies grow, we start to get a taste back of what sleep is like. We accomplish 4 hours, then 5 hours, then 6 hours, and so on. As adults, we usually see our “sleeping through the night” as at least 7 or 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. It can be an adjustment not always getting those hours!

I was pretty ecstatic when my son started sleeping through the night (in my terms) by the time I returned to work. Of course there were nights when he would wake up. However, for the most part, we both achieved a night long sleep.

Recently in the past month, at 21 months, it has been a different story. He started waking up several times during the night. Sometimes a diaper change would work and he would be back to sleep shortly. Other times he wanted something to drink, or just wanted to ask me a question. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “Mommyyyyyy, GG come?” at 3:00 AM.  (GG is what he calls my mom). Soon I was on a schedule of maybe 5 hours of interrupted sleep. Unlike my son who could take a nap, unfortunately my work would frown upon that if they found me nestled below my desk for a 2 hour snoozer.

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