Oh Sara, I am sorry your friend had to go through that, but very glad you were there.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Apr 22, 2013 6:36:17 pm PDT #20179 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
DavidS - Apr 22, 2013 6:41:32 pm PDT #20180 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My kid didn't sleep through the night for about 2.5 years. YEARS, people! I still don't know how any of us survived it. I'm just hoping with all I've got that the next one is a sleeper. Signed, Dead Eyes
Yeah, Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5. Which is the Number One Reason why it took me ten years to even consider having another child.
I'm sorry sarameg, that's a tough loss, and a shitty day.
Glamcookie - Apr 22, 2013 6:48:41 pm PDT #20181 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yeah, Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.
Oh. My. God. You have just put the fear in me, dude.
DavidS - Apr 22, 2013 6:51:53 pm PDT #20182 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh. My. God. You have just put the fear in me, dude.
I ain't gonna lie. It's bad. But you know how it is when you get by with 5.5 guaranteed hours of sleep a night. Plus or minus an hour.
HOWEVER, I am quite certain that you will not suffer this experience. Baby Boy the Second, will be a good sleeper from the get-go. I can feel it!
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2013 6:55:33 pm PDT #20183 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My mom has said that I didn't sleep through the night until kindergarten. By the time I was two or three, though, I knew that, if I woke up during the night, I could play with my dolls or look at my books in bed, and then go back to sleep when I was tired. That was my general sleep pattern until sometime during college, really -- I'd usually wake up in the middle of the night and read or something for a while, then go back to sleep.
DavidS - Apr 22, 2013 7:02:17 pm PDT #20184 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
By the time I was two or three, though, I knew that, if I woke up during the night, I could play with my dolls or look at my books in bed, and then go back to sleep when I was tired.
'Cuz you're a frickin' genius, unlike my son.
It's funny, when I took Emmett in for his last physical to get cleared for high school sports the pediatrician was asking about general concerns and she was scandalized when I said, "I don't worry about Emmett. He's very balanced; he's kind of a B+ at everything - school, sports, social."
Like that was the worst, most demoralizing thing a parent could say. "I'm sure he's an A at everything!" she asserted.
To which I thought, "Nope. Not unless he works harder. And seriously, Emmett's ego is more than fine. He's totally convinced he's awesome in every particular."
sarameg - Apr 22, 2013 7:17:45 pm PDT #20185 of 30001
I've got 12 more hours of training and then regular work shit and I kinda want to crawl under the covers and never come out (unless someone is yelling outside!)
I'm going to hate tomorrow. No if ands or buts.
At least I don't have kids?
My remaining cats (sob) have finally cuddled.And I'm using my grandmother's old super soft dishcloth to wipe my sad, sad, sore face.
Tomorrow will suck.
meara - Apr 22, 2013 7:21:31 pm PDT #20186 of 30001
HOWEVER, I am quite certain that you will not suffer this experience. Baby Boy the Second, will be a good sleeper from the get-go. I can feel it!
If it makes you feel better, I was apparently an incredibly fussy colicky baby. My little sister was apparently an angel, and my mom was all "omg if I'd known it could be this easy..."
Cashmere - Apr 22, 2013 7:27:45 pm PDT #20187 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Owen's a much better sleeper than Liv. She's a second shift kid, which drives me CRAZY because she's still buzzing around after 10 p.m. and is a bear to wake up in the morning at 7 to get ready for school.
Owen goes to sleep like Dracula in his crypt. Neatly, quietly, with no fuss, no muss.
Beverly - Apr 22, 2013 7:31:38 pm PDT #20188 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Baby one didn't sleep through the night. We even did that excruciating thing where we let him cry through the night. Once. Never again, it nearly killed both of us, all three of us sobbed that night through. And it didn't work. And made him hate and fear his bed for a while.
Baby two slept through by six weeks, and One decided to follow his example. Thank all the gods and little fishes.