Ice, Ice Baby!

Adelyn has her days and nights a bit confused. She's happy to sleep from 5 a.m. - 9 a.m., wake up for a quick diaper change and feeding and then go back to sleep until 1 p.m. At night however, sleep is boring! She's mostly happy when she's awake at night (mostly), but she wants to be held and does not want to lay down! We had several 2:30 a.m. nights last week - which makes for excessively sleepy parents!

We tried waking her up more during the day, but she is extremely stubborn and would only wake up on her terms. We tried tickling her, changing her diaper, sitting her upright, singing obnoxious songs while waving her arms and legs, making her dance, biting her feet, but nothing worked!

I asked the pediatrician how we could get her to sleep more at night and was told to wake her up more often during the day. So I asked how to wake her up because I thought we'd tried just about everything. The pediatrician told us to do this...

Yep, that's ICE that we are rubbing on my baby's foot! She was NOT a fan - and we couldn't do it for long because it made us feel bad! But, she did sleep better that night!