26 September 2005, Mon

Baby’s starting to wake up at night again. Last week, she started waking up just once, and then it progressed to two to three times. Sometimes, she doesn’t really wake, but she simply whimpers and kicks about in her sleep. To help her settle back to sleep without fully waking, we have no choice but to pat her till she falls asleep again. Sometimes, she wakes up wailing loudly and we have to carry her and rock and pat her till she falls sleep. Hmmm… are we spoiling her?

Last night was really bad. She woke up at 1am, 3am and 5.30am. Except for the 3am wake-up call, I had to carry her and rock and pat her to sleep the other two times. Daddy and I now take turns to tend to her at night and unfortunately, it was my turn last night. I am so exhausted I have to take the afternoon off. :(