hiring a sleep therapist.

so you know things in your household are getting crazy when someone asks how the therapist is working out and you both reply, “which one?”  or maybe that’s just normal.

about a month ago, bp and i were literally at the end of our rope with the whole sleep stuff.  pal was still waking up a million times a night to nurse, with no self soothing skills in sight, and i was about to put him in a moses basket to be sent down the river in hopes that a good family would find and adopt him.  i know they have agencies for that sort of stuff but it seemed more dramatic to do it that way.

bp, in his desperation, found a baby sleep consultant agency only a town over from ours and emailed them right away about our little nocturnal creature. Well Rested Baby is the website and let me just say that my first thought was to take her most expensive package and say, “Just fix this!”  and that’s exactly what we did.  we hired her.  amy.  an angel really.  i didn’t care what she did to us.  i invited her into my home with open arms and hoped she wasn’t bearing any, because i couldn’t see the forest through the trees at that point.  there was no sunlight in my eyes.  the night before Amy came over i had actually punched the wall in frustration as Pal woke up after only a mere half hour after being put down.

so what happened? i will divulge soon. let’s just say I’m sipping a cocktail at 6:26pm with no worries that i will be called away.  and it’s an amazing feeling.