Early in the morning

Apparently 5am is the new 7am around here.

A few days ago, when she was waking up at 5am after sleeping through the entire night, it wasn't so bad.

Oh who am I kidding? It was still sort of sucky, particularly because I was still going to bed at midnight. It's hard to enjoy the fact that she slept from 7pm through until 5am when it's still bloody dark out and you're oddly more exhausted then you were when you were waking up to feed her twice every night.

It was fine yesterday when I was going to wake up anyway to run 7 miles.

(Can you believe I actually chose to run 7 miles yesterday? Well, actually 7.5 miles but still? Insane!)

But alas. Since arriving at the in-laws, she's been waking up 3-4 times. Thankfully my FIL is here to alert me to her screaming since I didn't just put her back down at 3am and couldn't hear her in the room right next to her.

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock!!!!

(Seriously the gusto with which he knocked was more annoying than the fact that he was actually knocking).

I tried to ignore it but he kept knocking.

"YES," I groaned.

"I just wanted to let you know that the baby is screaming," he said.

Great. Thanks for that astute observation.

After she had already woken up once at midnight, I decided to let her cry when 3am rolled around, which went over light a pair of lead brick booties because she had poop in her diaper.

POOP? What are we, 2 months old here, Margot? You're 11 and 5/8 months kid. Buck up.

I swear to God they totally know that we're trying to get them to go back to sleep and they're like "I'll squeeze out the teeniest tiniest pebbles of poop so that I can't possibly go back to sleep and then I shall scream and you will come in and feel reaallllly bad for letting me scream and then I will repeat this entire cycle tomorrow except without the poop because you'll come in without that because you're so fucking predictable." Cue evil laugh.

Of course, she's pooped again at 5am again both days. I'm guessing that she gets pissed-off induced constipation so the entire time I was away she didn't go.

But what she doesn't realize is that I need my Goddamn beauty sleep.

Seriously kid. Don't you know who I am?

Comments

[Nel]

Knocking is for sure WAY worse than babies crying.

Why didn't you just tell you FIL to feed the baby?!? :)

[cjwsbg]

I remember those days...waking up in the middle of the night, poop, boobs leaking everywhere...bleh...I am glad they are potty trained now!

Good job on the run!

[Amira @definemature.com]

Looks like Margo has been talking to my son, Adam.

This past week he's gotten up at 5:30 in the morning to do nothing but let me know that he's up. And that I should be too.

So I believe the score is something like babies -10 and moms -0?

[Harmony]

Seven and a half miles is crazy good for you the most I ever made was 5 miles.

Oh and the poop tactic, works every time.

[Christina]

The poop tactic is always a sneaky one. It's not really a stall tactic - more like a sneak surprise.

Hope she sleeps for you soon. Cordy has always been our early riser - Mira's wake-up time of 6:30am is practically sleeping in for us.

[Kitty]

I love that your FIL can knock on your door, but can't check on the baby himself, like seriously? You dragged yourself out of bed, and then didn't do anything productive about it?

[Luann]

Aren't we going to be "falling ahead" next month due to the time change? Maybe that will help! I also think you should tell your FIL the reason she is crying at night is cuz she misses her grandpa and see how that goes over.

[Elizabeth]

When I am away, my 2 1/2 year old sleeps through the night, without so much as a peep, according to my husband.

When I am home, he wakes up at least once, and if I try to ignore him saying, "Mami, no! Mami! Mami, no!" He gets up, comes to my bed, pulls me out of it and makes me sit next to his bed with my arm wrapped around him or takes me into the living room and falls asleep on the couch, with my arm wrapped around him.

Oh well, at least I'm short enough that I can lay down on the couch.

[MissM]

I have a 5am waker upper as well lately. Maybe our babies are on the same circadian rhythm...

[Issa]

I am really thinking that by a year a kid should be sleeping through the night. Really.

Now I just need someone to give Harrison the memo, because he'll be one on Friday. I'm about to go baby boot camp on his ass. I is tired.

[julie]

I think your kid's been conspiring with my kid.

[Amanda]

Total evil baby plot against mothers everywhere. Bonus points if they can poop, puke, and spike a fever all at the same time.

[Angela]

If I were staying at your inlaws' house, I would probably have to fight the urge to run straight back home.

Slip the kiddo some prunes (mine still love it mixed into yogurt) and the FIL some Ambien, preferably mixed into a nice stiff drink.

[Cody]

Yep, my 9 month old has been doing that same thing lately, minus the poop. So I did the same thing night before last--let him cry a little bit before I gave in and went to check on him. Little stinker (literally) had covered his crib in poop. So I was scrubbing a crib at 3 am while he slept in his pack n play contently. Baby 1, Mom 0.

[Karen]

I think they poop to make us feel guilty. It's not just that they're up, crying, in the middle of the night (or 10 minutes into their nap) because they miss us. It's because they want to make us suffer. And then when you don't get up because, what could they possibly want? They've either pooped, spiked a fever, or thrown up in their cribs. These are the things they'll be talking about in therapy in 25 years.

[Secretia Teller]

That's very impressive 7 1/2 miles running. You are obviously one of the best in shape moms around. I can respect that.

I jog a few miles 3 or 4 days a week to keep the fat away.

Secretia