Is sleep a thing? Where can I get it?
On top of being peed on three times before 7am, my lil man decided that 5am was a great time to start the day and has not slept yet, it's 11am.... Now I'm going to say this in the nicest way possible, but any parent who's kid sleeps over 8 hours straight under the age of 6 months old, I'd like to punch in the throat. Not really, but when my kid is fighting the urge to sleep, even though his eyelids are close to being permanently closed, that is how I feel. Because when you're tired, anything rational goes out the window. And for all you other single mamas out there, you know there isn't a "honey please take the next feeding so I can sleep a total of 6 to 8 hours." Nope it's a, "Mama, I'm going to scream at 2,4, and 5, so you have to bounce me until your arms fall off, the bags under your eyes increase in size, and you are not energized when I want to be wide awake at 5am ready to party." Say it with me, CAFFEINE PLEASE. This is definitely one of the things they warn you about when you're pregnant. "Get all the sleep you can now, because you won't sleep a full night again until they are 18, hahaha!" True, 100% truth. Because even if your kid does sleep a long stretch, mine once slept a whopping 6 hours straight, I woke up, in a panic, thinking it was 2am(usual wake up time) when it was really 5am. So you still won't sleep peacefully. Besides all the first time mom scares, "is he still breathing?" "Did he learn to roll over and is now suffocating because his arm is stuck in front of his face?" "Did he pull the blanket over his head and into his mouth?" And so on and so forth, it took me 2 weeks to realize that I'm bat shit crazy, nothing is going to happen and if I don't get some sleep soon, I am going to keep hallucinating that my little boy is a little girl(yes, that actually happened). So while I fall asleep, eating my lunch, while my kid talks to the tv in his swing, being all sorts of defiant. Remember, you aren't crazy, children make you feel that way, sleep deprivation makes you feel that way, and it ain't easy, but always worth it.
