Holy sleep regression

Oh my goodness. I'd heard of this dreaded 4 month sleep regression, and I hoped and prayed this would skip over my child. I was not so lucky.

We were on a roll of sleeping 10, 11 hour stretches at night, and then, with a few days until her official 4 month birthday, it hit. Big time. It was like someone turned a switch and my peaceful sleeper went from slumbering all night to waking up SCREAMING every couple of hours. It was worse than when she was first born. The worst of it was definitely the first couple of nights, and we've slowly scaled back the nighttime craziness. However, we've now reverted back to one solid, no questions asked nighttime wake up and feed.

Part of me wishes she'd never slept those long 10 hour nights, because once your body gets a taste of long stretches of sleep, going back the other way is SO HARD. I feel like a walking zombie.

Fortunately, she's still napping okay, and the best news is that usually she takes a solid 2 hour nap almost immediately after she "wakes up" for the day around 6 am. Which means mommy gets to go back to bed, too. This is making our mornings far less productive than they could be, but at this point, I'll take what sleep I can get.

I talked with her pediatrician about this at her 4 month check up, and he said it's perfectly normal and the fact that she's only waking up once in the night (even though she wasn't waking up at all) is really very good. I'm counting my blessings, because I know it could be worse.

In the meantime, please don't judge the bags under my eyes and the lack of make up, because right now, I just don't care. Lauren is my name and coffee is my game.