I Am No Longer Basking in the Glow

I really enjoy my daughter, I do.  But now the excitement of having her home is wearing off and the reality of having a daughter is catching up. The nightmares (we think) are happening.  We were warned that she could have nightmares, as little as she is.  So, for no other apparent reason, she will wake up about every half hour at night wimpering to start and if we don’t get there in time moving to a full blown cry.  Every half hour. Yep.  We are tired.  Now, our family has been super supportive and offered to come give us a night off, BUT she is not like a birth child.  We have to work at the attachment business, which includes waking up every half hour.  We have found a way that she will stay asleep – sleeping on us.  Yep, not just with us, but on us.  Well, that’s comfy, or NOT.  Also, this puts us in the awkard position of trying to decide whether letting her sleep with us is something we want to encourage?  Letting her cry is not an option in our case.  Her needs must be met for awhile!  So we sit here this afternoon, enjoying the peacefulness of her nap in a quandary.

You know how when you are so doggone proud of your kids for doing somthing just right (like sleeping through the night or going potty in the toliet on their own)… that just by speaking the words (or writing the words down) it seems as though the child has unlearned everything they know and are doing the exact opposite.  Well, I’m hoping the same thing will happen but in the reverse for us. Silly me.

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