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.

Yeah, Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.

Oh. My. God. You have just put the fear in me, dude.

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!

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.

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."

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.

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..."

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.

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.

The main reason I'm an only child is because I was eerily well-behaved as a baby/toddler, and my parents were convinced that a second child would be a demon baby to balance the scales. If I couldn't sleep, I played quietly with my stuffed animals.