Sleep. Who needs it?

Side Note: This is a really old post. Tara gets woken once at night sometimes to feed Jacqueline, but nothing like when the baby was 5-6 months old which is when Jai started this post!

Everybody hears about the sleep deprived parents of an infant. The baby wakes up every couple of hours all night and all day and so does everybody else, right? What you don't hear about is the sleep deprived pre-schooler and the sleep deprived infant making sleep deprived parents.

Julia refuses to go to sleep at night without a fight and a long period of staying up talking. Things have been in flux with her bedtime habits since Tara was about 8 months pregnant but they have come to a head that is about to make me lose mine. During the last months of the pregnancy and first few months of Jacqueline being home Julia would come into our bed and depending on how tired I was she would sleep the remainder of the night there. Then we go on vacation and we stay in an open plan beach house with Julia's grandmother and aunt. She spent the night in a different room each night but either stayed up late or pitched a fit and sometimes both. We came home with her aunt and every night has been filled with tantrums about being scared and endless chatter and singing after the last story is read. So, here we are another night where she is awake 3 hours past that last story. She still takes her nap but I cannot wait till we get a grasp on this bedtime thing.

Jacqueline is the queen of catnaps. She will fall asleep while eating all day and then at night she will power eat. I don't have to deal with this too much because Tara is the sole provider of food but still it means Tara is getting up and down during the night and neither of us is getting a full nights sleep.

Between the two kids and the two adults I cannot believe we are all functioning as well as we are. The worse part is that I had gotten spoiled. Julia was such a good sleeper that now I am flustered and frustrated by her new pattern.