The bathroom floor....

This is where I slept for about 1 1/2 hours last night. Why? Because I am trying so hard to get my daughter to start sleeping through the night a little bit better. For whatever reason, God decided to bless Joey and I with children that don't really like to sleep. Tripp didn't start sleeping through the night until he was 17 months old and Mak seems to be heading down that same road. But with me going back to work in just 4 short weeks, I really need her to start doing a little bit better. I don't mind her getting up once a night....but two, three times a night is killing me. However, the only room in my entire house that I can't hear her when she cries is in our bathroom. Last night, I got up with her when she woke up at 11 and nursed her back to sleep. But then when she woke up again at 2, I thought "No way". I knew she wasn't hungry and I had just changed her diaper. She is just in the habit of waking up. So, I took my pillows and a blanket and layed down in the bathroom floor until 3:30 this morning. When I woke back up, she had stopped crying and gone back to sleep. I have no idea how long she cried. This might seem cruel to just let her lay in there crying, but she is 9 1/2 months old and it is time that she starts sleeping longer than 3-4 hour stretches at night. Joey came stumbling into the bathroom last night and stepped on me! He knows though that I can not just lay in bed listening to her cry....it obviously makes my mommy's heart hurt to listen to either of my kids cry. I have to go where I can't hear her. I plan on doing it again tonight and tomorrow night. They say it takes about 3 days to break a habit in a baby; we'll see! My goal is to get her to sleep from about 7:30-1/2 and then sleep again from then until around 7 the next morning. Until then...I may have to sleep on the bathroom floor for a little while every night!

This is an old picture, but could you resist this face either? This is why I hide in the bathroom!