I wonder how many of us feel sleep-deprived.

[rbnyc]

[rbnyc]

1. Keeping it kicked.

I think sleep deprivation is probably an epidemic. I'm so sleep-deprived, I'm having memory loss.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. I'm sleep deprived, but it's by choice

[rbnyc]

5. Why? For the love of god, WHY? (nt)

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. writing a book

which takes about 20 hours a week. I work when Mrs. McLargehuge and Ian McLargehuge are sleeping. So I start at about 10:30PM and work until 3AM or so then go to bed, get up at 7:30AM and start all over again at my regular job.

We also have a new baby coming in January so I think of it as cross training.

[Phillycat]

3. So sleep-deprived, my mental acuity is diminished.

4 hours last night and I considered myself stone lucky.

[rbnyc]

4. What keeps you up?

In my case, it's baby.

[Phillycat]

6. Can't sleep--mental problems, I guess.

I am seeing a therapist. Maybe that will help.

You are lucky yours is such a natural and organic thing as staying up with your newborn (although I'm sure that still doesn't make it enjoyable. :) ) I've been sleep-deprived since I was 10. Never was a good sleeper.

[rbnyc]

8. I never slept well as a kid either...

...until I started making up fantasies in bed. I used to worry and think and worry and think. So I finally started making up little stories that I would star in, real fairy-tale stuff. That would calm me down so I could fall asleep.

I love the time I spend with my baby at night. But getting up for work, commuting and working a full day every day is really hard.

[Patiod]

7. Mine is something I can get rid of, but for some reason keep

Damned cat starts knocking things over, ripping up paper and bags at 4:30 am each morning. If I toss her out into the living room, she throws herself against the bedroom door until 6:30, when I have to get up for work. GD little sociopath.

Hint: NEVER start giving a kitten wet food in the am. I cannot stress this too much.

[rbnyc]

9. Cats!

One of my cats is very upset not to be the baby anymore. As soon as I get the baby down, he's there bothering me, every time.

We also started giving them wet food in the morning, so about 7, we have all 3 of them bugging us.

[haele]

10. I'm sleep-depraved...

Always looking for a chance to go back to sleep. Damn cat won't let me sleep more than 3 hours at a time; at 13 going on 14, he's reverting back to kittenhood and always trying to wake me up to pay attention to him and/or feed him.



(The black cat is the baby that's reverting.)

Of course, that's partially because I've been unemployed for the past four weeks and I've been "always home". Hopefully, I'll get back into some sort of real schedule once I get back to work next week.

Is the rbnyc kidlet starting to teethe or becoming more excitible because of the attention and the holidays?

(At the age of 9 months, my parents tell me I was getting independent enough that I would stop whimpering in the middle of the night to get fed, and start climbing out of my crib to get to where "the food" was. Luckly, by the time I was almost a year, I was sleeping through the night, so that was only about a two month period of waking my parents to the sound of "kerthunk" - two minute - five minute pause - "bang, bang, clang" at one in the morning.)

Happy holidays!

Haele

[rbnyc]

11. Garrison sleeps in his own room now.

And he's still getting used to it. He's also starting to teethe--very early.

He got a little thrown off over Xmas weekend, because we opened our presents at 2 am! We usually open them at midnight, but this year, half the family went to mass.

[haele]

12. He'll settle down soon enough...

The teething is the next hurdle, though.
If you haven't already been told by the many doting relatives, always keep frozen carrots, bananas, toast sticks (my dad used to make french toast dusted with cinnamon on Sundays, cut it into sticks and freeze it for me and my brother when we were teething), and other easily digestable chewing "sticks" on hand for Garrison during this time.
As for kitties - they're complaining about a change in schedule! They want to make sure mommy still loves them during any time of change.

In a year or two, it will only be worry keeping you awake, not the baby - unless you plan to give Garrison a brother or sister!

:)

Haele