sleep-main_Full[1]I’m not sure things have ever been worse on the sleep front for the Wigdahl kids.  Jonathan’s fussiness has ramped up; we had been very hopeful that he was going to be completely easy, but he’s turning out to be more like Thomas than Katherine on that front.  We’re still hoping that he’s just feeling under the weather or reacting badly to something Robin ate, or to the formula that we’ve supplemented him with.  We’re going to try soy formula for that and see if that improves things at all.

That leaves the two other kids.  After months of great sleep, Katherine is back in a rut of getting up in the middle of the night nearly every night.  Sometimes she goes back to sleep easily, and sometimes she stays up.  With her it seems more like a matter of habit — once she’s off track she stays off track until we manage to get her retrained, so we’re having to jump on that.

And Thomas, who’s always been the best sleeper, has been getting up way too early lately for varied and poorly-specified reasons, which makes him crankier.

All in all, it sucks.  I’ve been taking care of Katherine’s wakings while Robin deals with Jonathan, so neither of us are even close to getting a good night’s sleep.  I have high hopes that we’ll get things figured out and back on track, but for now there are a lot of yawns at Casa de Wigdahl.