Late Night With Brooklyn

It looks like it is going to be yet another late night with Brooklyn. As I type, with one hand, I am in the rocking chair, holding Brooklyn tight, trying to rock her to sleep. She isn't feeling her best right now. Not only is she fighting sleep, but she started screaming about 15 minutes ago because we think her tummy was hurting her. I finally got her calmed down from all the screaming and now am just working on getting her to sleep. The recliner I am rocking her in continues to pop every time I go back and forth in it. It's old and worn out. Thankfully we will be getting a new recliner for me to rock her in within the next week though.

Anyway, this isn't the first night Brooklyn has kept me up late recently. Last night I was awake with her until 1:30 in the morning. Luckily it wasn't because of a tummy ache though. No, this time it was my own fault. I had her sleep most of the day and then she slept all evening too. So when ten o'clock rolled around and it was time for her feeding before bedtime, she was wide awake. I think I tried about three times to rock her to sleep, only for her to wake right back up as soon as I got in the bed room and laid down.

So the bedtime thing is something that I really need to start working on. On average, we don't get o go to bed until sometime between 10:30 through midnight. She always has to have that one last meal to get her through the night.On one hand, I don't mind being up that late with her because I know it will help her sleep all the way through the night. On the other though, her daddy needs to be in bed at a decent time because he has to get up earlier than we do in the morning to go to work. She is a work in progress though. Hopefully we will be able to fine tune her routine soon enough. Until then, we will just stay up and enjoy Jay Leno!

Love,
Jennifer