You're Hot Then You're Cold

Parenting makes you kind of stupid.  This is just the first of countless post about the dumb things Steve and I have done as parents.  Your common sense just turns off, especially in the middle of the night.  Especially when your child suddenly goes from sleeping until about 5 am to sleeping until only 1 or 2, which is apparently a common 4 month occurrence.

A week or so ago the weather here took some sudden turns.  For a few days it was in the 80's and then the next day it dropped back down into the 50's.  Between the heat and the growth spurt she was going through, Evelyn spent two days eating and fussing non-stop.  Steve finally made an executive decision to turn on the air conditioner in April, and we dressed her for summer weather for sleeping.

By Friday evening, the weather had cooled down a little and we could at least turn off the air conditioner.  By Saturday, we were so over getting up with her every few hours and decided to start some sleep training.  Mostly because every time I got up with her during the night she would eat for 3 minutes and fall right back asleep.  We got her bathed, dressed in the sleepwear she had been wearing for the steamy nights we had been having.  We decided we were going to let her cry it out for about 10 minutes before we went in.

Everything was going great until about 3 am that night.  We were stoked because that was the longest she had gone in a few nights.  She cried it out for about 10 minutes and then did fall back asleep.  I was kind of chilly, so I grabbed a pair of  thick socks.  Barely 15 minutes later, she was up again crying.  10 minutes of crying passed, and she fell asleep again.  Steve got up and pulled on another blanket.  Another 15 minutes go by, the crying started again.  Steve gets up and closes the window.  15 more minutes of sleep, and the crying starts again.

Steve gets up to check the thermostat.  The heat was off.  It was at that moment that I suddenly realized what you probably figured out with me putting on a pair of socks...my kid was freezing.  We ran in to grab a sleep sack to bundle her up, and her little hands were like ice.  I tried to change her carefully, without waking her too much, but the minute I tried to move her, she was up.  And after the unnecessary trauma I put her through, I gave in and fed her.

Night one of sleep training - Evelyn: 1, Parents: 0