Sleepless Nights

For some reason, I had it in my head that nights with a baby would get easier as he/she got older. That's actually probably how it's SUPPOSED to be, but not in our case. The last two weeks have consisted of Westin getting up every two hours at night... sometimes even more frequently. I continue to blame it on teething and really hope that it's the teeth and not some bad pattern we're falling into permanently or some bad mommy mistake I've already made in the six months I've held this position.

In case you've lost track, Westin is getting his SIXTH and SEVENTH teeth at the moment (and he's only 6 months - tomorrow). The poor little guy. I feel so bad (for him and me). His bottom three teeth started coming in around 4.5 months. Those ones didn't seem to cause too much of a problem. Then he got two more on the top (the ones next to the two front teeth) and those ones weren't too bad either. Now we're on to the two front teeth on top and it's been a nightmare. They're taking a lot longer to break through this time. During the day he has been doing pretty well, but at night it's a whole other story. He just can't seem to get comfortable - especially the last couple of nights. We put him down around 7:30 and he's been waking up like every 45 minutes until we feed him one last time at 10:30. Then after that he's been doing every 2 hours. I'M SO TIRED!!!

I unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) have to go out of town two nights this week and my mom will be stuck with the sleepless nights (sorry mom). I just feel horrible because I don't know what to do. Right before these two new teeth starting coming in, Ryan and I had planned on letting Westin "cry-it-out" at night to get him to sleep through the night. But now I can't bare to let him just cry when I don't know if it's the teeth bothering him or not (I also believe all the books say you shouldn't do this method when the baby is teething - so that kind of makes me feel better).

Anyway... I'll leave it at that. I'm just tired and hope I can figure out how to help W feel better and get a good night's sleep.

So on to a new week - Westin's got his 6th month appointment tomorrow, we'll be starting him on solids, I'm headed back to Nashville for a day, and the Lakers are on the road to a championship.