Sleep child of mine

dear godzilla please sleep! We are going on two weeks now of very interrupted sleep. It is making us all miserable. We will survive but will not be happy in the process. Why oh why does Jaida have to be such a miserable teether? She is such a great sleeper at all other times but when she is teething sleep goes right in the toilet. She is trying to get the last two of her two-year molars plus half of a third. They just won't come in. I am thinking about giving her a spoon to bite down on to see if she can force them through ... we are getting a little bit desperate here.

It takes forever to get her to sleep at night and involves a great deal of coddling. It seems she knows she is most uncomfortable at night and just doesn't want to go through it alone. So for most nights of the last two weeks Joe ended up camping out on the floor next to her bed or at the very least (if he is lucky) at the top of the stairs reading his book. It takes her a LONG time to fall asleep and she doesn't seem to stay asleep all night. If we are having a good night she just wakes herself up crying and one of us cango in and lay her down and shush her until she falls back asleep. On an okay night Joe ends up camping out on the floor in her room for a while until she finally drifts off. On a not so great night she ends up in bed with me (while Joe is in the guest room) but does fall asleep quickly but wakes early. On a horrible night like last night she ends up in bed with me at 1:15 a.m. and doesn't fall back to sleep until 5:45 a.m. after much flailing, twisting and flipping about. It makes for a rough day let me tell you. I will celebrate in a big way when those teeth come in.

Did I mention that she had her six week appointment with the ENT doctor on Tuesday? Her ears look perfect as did her tempanogram. Her hearing is back into normal range which is super. She is released from his care until 6 months from now when she gets another check-up. This is all barring any ear infections popping up ... but so far so good.