Oh Em Gee. Sleep Please!

[annuin]

So, we finally have Dashiell in something resembling a normal sleeping pattern (third night in a row where he's gone to bed somewhere between 8-9pm and slept til 5-6am, for him a *huge* deal), and then Matilda just gets worse and worse. She just pulled an all-nighter, pretty much. Well she had one or two of those <10 minute micro naps, which amped her up completely, but obviously doesn't do much for me beyond make me extremely frustrated.

I just canceled and rescheduled the tour of the school that I was going to go visit later, because I honestly don't think it's going to be a good idea to get in the car in an hour and drive around after not having slept yet, and having slept poorly yesterday.

Currently she's calmer, as I put her in her seat in front of the tv for a few minutes, so she's watching PBS/Sprout. It seems to be distracting her, which is good, because she was bouncing off the walls not 5 minutes earlier and driving me to the point of wanting to scream.

If I'm really lucky, she'll pass out within the next 5-10 minutes. *sigh*

Comments

[anachronaut.livejournal.com]

5th Element sleep chambers!

[notagod.livejournal.com]

Shot in the dark, have you considered her diet?

I know that adelaide reacts like she's on speed to a large amount of the 200 range of preservatives. Especially the propionites (found in bread, 282 mostly), and the sulfites (used as preservative in so much stuff).

Another side effect Adelaide shows apart from the manicness is also impulse control issues, which yeah, doesn't help in the very young.

http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/ <- great source of information.