Sleepless Nights

Ever since Dublin has been born I don't know who loses more sleep, me or Ireland. Since she was 9 months she's been sleeping by herself and she has done great sleeping through the night. I used to think it was rough when she would wake up sometimes at 7:30am ready to start the day, until Dublin was born. 

It seems like the week we came home with Dublin, Ireland has difficulty sleeping a full night. I would say 4 nights out of the week she wakes up at random times (12 a.m., 3 a.m., 5 a.m. etc) and will cry and scream. It's not night terrors because when I go in to her room to comfort her she is standing up and aware of what's going on. It breaks my heart even if at the moment I'm half asleep and irritable, craving my pillow. All she really wants is to be held and sleep on my shoulder because any attempt to place her back in bed causes her to scream in terror. There are several mornings when I know Dublin is going to sleep a few more hours, (and no one else is home or up) that I go and get Ireland as she screaming and go lay on the couch with her and sleep a few hours longer. 

(4 a.m.)

Well, Dev and I think we have solved the issue. I had mentioned that the way she was acting almost seemed like she's scared of the dark. Ireland has a sound machine that has a projector that scrolls a disc of pictures (Moons, Sheep, Cows, etc..) and we turned it on for her and it's been a week now and she has done great. My poor baby.....I was always terrified of the dark as a kid; just ask my sister Aimee. We shared a room  until I was 9 and she was 10 and I can't remember how old I was when I stopped but I used to have to have the closet light on along with the bathroom light on and our bedroom door cracked. I can relate to my little girls fear of the dark. It's not fun, especially when you're alone.