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Were you able to sleep when the baby slept?
I don't know why I'm just now thinking of this, but in the early days, was this something you were able to do?
I rarely could. I can't fall asleep on demand like that. As tired as I was, when Ella was sleeping I was very rarely able to follow suit. Would have been nice, though. Just curious if others were really able to make that work.
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Re: Were you able to sleep when the baby slept?
If I did, I slept very lightly because he was always sleeping on me. I woke up with every movement, noise, etc. When he would finally sleep elsewhere, I am too much of a control freak to not clean up while he was sleeping.
With Jackson, sometimes. I think this was purely a benefit of me not having been in the real world yet - I was in college, then law school and I was used to random sleep patterns, you know? Even though Jeff had a real job, I would occasionally have a night class, or whatever, and our sleep patterns weren't always the same. I could nap if I wanted.
With Scarlett, hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Not only is it more difficult for me to sleep now then it was 4 years ago, Jackson is not so helpful when it comes to napping. He also likes to get up about 5 minutes after I get her back down if she gets up at, say, 6-6:30 to eat. With him, I went back to bed for a few hours.
Even when Mady was really little, I had a hard time with this. Of course after waking up in the middle of the night I was able to go to sleep right away, but I couldn't do that during the day. I felt there was so much else I wanted to do than sleep. It was during those moments that I wanted to do something for myself (bath, eat, check messages, etc) and I didn't want to waste it sleeping. I totally should have taken advantage of it though!
Now as she has gotten older and I want to take a nap, I plan to do it.