Can you do me a favor?

If you see my child, could you please return her? Currently my sweet little baby has been replaced by a possessed, devil baby and I’d like to have my other baby back.

Last night, she didn’t sleep. At. All.

She took a 15 minute nap around 7 am, and then slept for an hour for Coleman when I had him get up with her after that, but that’s it. And that’s including two different times of leaving her in her ‘crib’ to cry herself to sleep. I figured she was just really tired and didn’t know it, so I put her down when she was slightly drowsy and figured she would eventually tire out and sleep.

Nope.

Both times I ended up getting her back out after an hour of crying and starting over.

She nursed a lot, but it wasn’t calm, nice nursing – it was fussy, fidgety nursing, which is always painful (for me). She pulls back from the breast and/or shakes her head swiftly from side to side to side, but she doesn’t open her mouth and let go when she does this, so guess what gets pulled and jerked from side to side with her?? Try that for an hour and see how you feel.

I finally tried nursing her in the “sidelying” position in the bed with me, and she actually fell asleep while nursing and stayed there asleep on the breast. I wasn’t going to risk anything at this point, so I just would drowse in and out of sleep with her on her side beside me. Coleman wasn’t in the bed at this point, so I wasn’t worried about him rolling over on her, but it also wasn’t very comfy for me after awhile. However, napping on and off from around 11:30 am to around 3 pm was all the sleep I really got (except for an hour or so when Coleman was up with her).

So I’m sure you can guess how pleasant I am today…

Good times.