Is It Worth The Chance? Uncomfortable Sleep vs. Potential No Sleep
Posted in Newborn Challenges on 02. Jun, 2009
What to do. Ryder had his first bad night (although surely not the last), which gave me flashbacks of when Clayton was born. After 2 to 3 hours of crying, it was 12:30AM, and he finally fell asleep in my arms. I had two choices: 1) put him down and risk him screaming for another 3 hours OR 2) prop myself into the corner of the couch with a pillow and sleep uncomforably for a little while, albeit very uncomfortably. There was no way I was chanceing it. I made myself as comfortable as possible and crashed. When I woke up about 5 hours later, (he must have worn himself out with all the crying), with my arm asleep and tingling, Elizabeth couldn’t believe he had slept that long. What would you do? Lay the newborn in his crib and get to sleep comfortably, or take the safe route and just try to get a few hours of sleep with no regard to comfort?
I would have done what you did. Some sleep is better than none at all I say. Keegan slept in his swing, swaddled and buckled in for the first three months- but we all got sleep!
For a split second I considered trying to put him into the crib-like apparatus he sleeps in… but just a split second