hey there girls!! Thanks heaps for your thoughts yesterday, I think I'm just having an off week... and Matilda's sleeping habits this week haven't helped either...

Have any of you had your little ones wake up around 3-4am and decide its awake time?? Only then to wake up again at around 5.30am and decide the same thing #-o #-o #-o She's done this a few nights in a row where she's up. We've tried not changing her nappy, sometimes just settling her, sometimes trying to feed her, sometimes I've tried leaving her.... and then sometimes she's done a huge poo and we've had to change her sheets etc at 3.30am!!! Only to have her up and giggling and cooing at us as we are miserable and tired... one person dealing with Matilda and the other changing sheets & mattress pads etc... thats only happened the last three nights, but then she wakes up again thinking its awake time! ](*,) ](*,) sometimes taking over an hour to get back to sleep...

But she refuses to stay awake past 6pm, she just cracks it at that moment and will not quiet down until you put her in her cot, and she doesn't always go straight to sleep but just grumples for 10-15 minutes and then goes to sleep....

So... I'm tired. I've tried to not make Pete do too much in the middle of the night, but he did heaps last night because I was too upset to do anything and I went to bed at 8pm, didn't wake up for Matilda's first two feeds, in fact he brought her into me and had to wake me up to feed her one time and did her himself the other time, then he put her back to bed...

Anyway... she's happy today, but is so sleepy she starts getting tired after being awake only an hour and I'm trying to keep her up for longer periods during the day just to see if that will help [-o<

sorry for the epic post AGAIN... and I hope your dinners work out tonight lmao!!