My Sleep

It is working… It is not working… It should work, it is going to work, it must work.

The kids’ new bed came 2 weeks ago. I have been sleeping with them for the past 2 weeks and Daddy Lim is enjoying our big bed. Jiejie has only slept in her deck 3x. The 2nd time, she voluntarily slept in it but only to wet herself and ended up sleeping with us in the lower deck in the middle of the night. Last night, she fell asleep on our bed (masterbed room) and Daddy Lim helped to put her on her deck after putting on a diaper for her. I was too tired to wake her up for pee in the middle of the night and I probably lack the strength to carry her off the deck, to the toilet and put her back onto the deck. Digressing, she is still not toilet trained in the night. She sometimes still sleeps in her pee spot and definitely doesn’t wake up to use the toilet. Just a few nights ago, she peed on my mattress…

I had been sleeping with Lil Isaac. I am not sure if it is bcos he is not comfortable with the sleeping arrangement or that he is still having flu, but he wakes up very often in the night! For the past 2 weeks, he has NEVER failed to wake up for milk once a night even when he went to bed late. On top of that, he moves around so very often. I woke up when he stirred “violently”. And he crawls around on the bed and onto the floor to don’t know where. He even started walking out of the room and I had to chase after him in my half-awake state.

Last night was a typical night. He went to bed at 9+pm. Auntie woke me up at 1.30am bcos Lil Isaac has crawled out of his bed to the floor. I gave him his milk and tucked him back to bed. He woke up and started crawling and walking again at 3.30am. He managed to sleep without milk. He woke up again intermittently since 5am. I went to express at 5.50am in the living room and saw him walking out of the room, probably looking for me at about 6am. Popo was trying to tuck him back to bed when we left the house.

I am zombified after the frequently interrupted sleep but I am persevering on. Popo teased that the upper deck is underutilized. That is even after we invested in expensive Ariel bedsheet, cute night light and a princess-print blanket. I think Lil Shauna is still not used to sleeping on her own after sleeping with us for the last 4 years. I had thought that I can start escaping back to my bed in the middle of the night after the first few nights with them but I think it will take a long while. It will work.. one day.

Mummy Lim