Doodaddy

Every good sleeper is alike, but all bad sleepers are bad in their own way.
– Paraphrased (badly) from Anna Karenina.

The hot topic these days seems to be sleep. My Buddy with the 2.5-year old is having trouble with her son getting to sleep before 9 or 10 at night, so she’s considering dropping his nap. (The wrong thing to do, according to our favorite book, but I think she’s entered “I’ll try anything” mode.)

Boobaby, on the other hand, has started sleeping until 9:30 or 10 a.m. (If I say this too loudly at the playground, the other mothers throw food at me and hiss.) Sounds great, but unfortunately it’s at the expense of a 1-2 hour wakeful time at around 4 a.m.! The book tells us this is food-related, so we’re going to try an egg before bed.

Finally, our other friend (no pseudonym yet, so I’ll call her son PhilosophoBaby) has pretty much perfect sleep for a 15-month old, 12 hours at night and 2 during the day, but for some reason, the nap happens at 10 o’clock in the morning!

I feel like a new driver, forever fixing minor course corrections by violently swerving to the other side of the road. I suppose that’s not a bad metaphor to pay attention to.