David has not been sleeping well. Let's start with the fact that he's forgotten how to go to sleep on his own. For the last several weeks, he's either nursed or been rocked to sleep. John and I know we need to retrain him, and we just haven't had the energy. This means, of course, a babysitter is in for some serious screaming.

But on to my problems. David has been waking up at least once a night almost every night for a week. John's taken most of the gigs, but last night, David insisted on me. At the 1:00 stint, it took a half hour of nursing, Tylenol, stories, and dire threats before he would lay down in his crib with me lying on the floor next to him. I fell asleep and woke at 3:00 to go back to my bed. At the 4:00 call, nothing really worked. He lay in his crib. I lay on the floor, but I don't think he went back to sleep. At 5:00, he insisted he was poopy (not) and demanded MommyDaddy bed. I figured he wasn't going back to sleep anyway, so if he rattled and kicked me for fifteen minutes, it was fifteen minutes I could lie there and pretend to sleep. We got in bed with John and to my amazement, we all went to sleep. David slept until 8:30. That's 2 hours later than usual, so great, but what the heck was going on last night, and is it going to happen again tonight?