The last few days though, she has been getting up at 5:30 (instead of about 6). If she woke up chipper and moved through the day as usual, this might not be so bad ... but that isnt what is happening. She isnt getting enough sleep! She wakes up a bit cranky, and wants to take a nap not long after she gets up. This then screws up our entire schedule and day. I have had to put her down for three naps a few times in the past few days, and we dropped the third nap many months ago. Its like we are regressing back to the days when she was still a little baby :)
A the same time she started waking up (even) earlier, she also started sleeping worse during naptime. She would wake up at the sound of a pin dropping, and lots of crying would be involved. That is when we made the emergency sound machine purchase. It seems to be helping a bit, but with the shortness of nighttime sleep I think she is just screwed up all around. She ends up overtired for her naps and just isnt getting good sleep. I was desperate.
My husband kept telling me to put aluminum foil in her windows, to make her room darker. He said "people do it". What people???? I laughed off his suggestion for a few days, but yesterday after another early morning and screwed up naps I was about to lose it. "Put aluminum foil in her windows", he tells me again. "Are you serious?", I question. He assured me that it was up to me, but if I didnt want to go nutty it might be worth the try :) So I put aluminum foil in her windows last night before she went to bed ...
AND SHE SLEPT UNTIL 7:20 THIS MORNING.
Today just might be the best day of my life. (Sighs)
