Sleeping

Our family has not been sleeping well for the past few weeks --- or shall we say not since Mattie was born but it has gotten worse the past few weeks. Mattie insists on being hugged to sleep, meaning he wants to lie on me the entire night. He wakes up and cries for hugs in the middle of night and demands to be hugged and cradled. Sometimes he cries for hugs even when he is on me. So we tried to explain to him that it hurts Mommy to hold him all night and tried to let him cry it out. Well, he cried 4 hours one night (no it's really 4, not a typo). We had to resort to bring the baby into the bedroom and have Mattie cry outside the room one night because we just couldn't take it anymore. Essentially, we end up being all grumpy the next morning.

Since Peter has been studying the last few weeks, we started bundling Micah in his coccon and put him in the stroller. Then we cover the stroller with a blanket to hide the light. Micah pretty much sleeps in the foyer so it's relatively darker and has a dark blanket over the stroller.

I realized most of you probably have no idea what our stroller looks like so I decided to download some pics of it so you get some idea of how Micah sleeps at night.