What A Night

Last night my little one went to bed at his normal time 8:15. He still goes to bed with a bottle of warm milk, he is only 14 months old and I felt he was still young enough to enjoy this. I have heard of the dental affects but we brush our teeth together every morning and as soon as he is asleep me or my husband will go and take the bottle. Anyways, lately J has been waking up in the middle of the night crying. He is not having night terrors, we are able to soothe him instantly when we pick him up and he is usually awake by the time we get to his room (which takes about 30 seconds if we walk to it). Last night I had a hard time falling asleep and the last time that I looked at the clock it was 1:15 in the morning. I figured it would be ok since J doesn't get up until 8:00 am usually. Well last night he woke up at 2:20 crying, I made him a little bottle and laid him back down. I went back to lay down and then an hour later he was up again. By this point I am still groggy as hell and cranky from the not so gentle wake up calls. I get up and go in his room, kiss him and tell him to go night night. I back to my bedroom and turned to the tv on to see if he would self soothe and go back to sleep. By 4:00 he is still crying, so I get him another little bottle of milk ( he would have had about 9 ounces total if he drank this one. Not too much for him as he usually drink that before he falls asleep). Well at 4:30 he lets out a scream from hell and I figure his arm or leg is stuck through the crib again (a problem we are trying desperately to fix) and as I get in sight of his door and see him standing up in his crib, he begins to vomit. Waves of guilt wash over him and the lovely "your an ass" feeling settles itself in. So I clean him up and his room and get everything in the wash. Put new sheets on the bed and get new blankets, then I get him and we cuddle on the couch until 5:30 watching Cartoon Network. He finally fell back asleep and I was able to lay him down and get some sleep myself.

I decided that now was as good a time as any to break the milk at bed/nap time and then break the bottle all together. He vomited up what looked like cottage cheese. EWWWW!! Wish me luck as I am sure this is going to be a blast. My house will probably be overflowing with sunshine and rainbows as we take on this challenge! Next will be getting him in a toddler bed, since nothing I do keeps his limbs out of the crib slates.