Petra has been so impossible during the night that lately I’ve started dreading going to bed myself.\u00a0 Every night is just. so. rough<\/em>.\u00a0 She goes to bed more or less well, but after a couple of hours–just about the time Olof and I head up for the night–things take a turn for the worse.\u00a0 Her sleep is restless and fitful and she yells and cries and protests most of the night, sometimes waking, sometimes not, but always keeping me from sleep.<\/p>\n She’s not having nightmares or night terrors or anything of the sort, as far as I can tell.\u00a0 Mostly she’s yelling (at Tage, presumably) “It’s mine!” or some variation on that theme.\u00a0 He, in the next bed, manages to sleep through all of it, lucky boy, but I’m up at least two or three times a night.\u00a0 Usually she doesn’t wake up herself, and when she does she is easily enough put back to bed after a visit to the bathroom and maybe a bottle of v\u00e4lling<\/em> (I know, I know, she’s way too old to be having a bottle, particularly in the middle of the night, but it’s really not all that unusual in Sweden and besides, I’m way too tired to argue about it at 3 a.m.).<\/p>\n I’m not sure what it’s all about, but it’s been going on, to some degree, since some time in the summer.\u00a0 It’s not nearly as bad, thank God<\/i>, as it was those first couple of months after Brynja was born, but I can’t help wonder if it doesn’t have the same roots.\u00a0 The thing is, though, she seemed to settle down with all that for a while before she started up again semi-recently.\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 In any case, the baby is mostly a good sleeper, so it’s only the one kid getting me up at all hours.\u00a0 And while it would be nice to be able to make the most of having a good-sleeping baby, I suppose you can’t have everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Petra has been so impossible during the night that lately I’ve started dreading going to bed myself.\u00a0 Every night is just. so. rough.\u00a0 She goes to bed more or less well, but after a couple of hours–just about the time Olof and I head up for the night–things take a turn for the worse.\u00a0 Her… Read More No rest for the weary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}