My husband always tells me I jinx things. Based on what always seems to happen I would have to agree with him. It goes like this, I say, “The baby is finally asleep!”. What happens? The baby wakes up. Always directly after I say it. He should just record himself saying, “Don’t jinx it!”

Apparently all it takes is me writing this for it to happen. Just as I hit enter to start this paragraph…the baby started screaming. Never fails! Tonight I’m cutting her some slack though. Poor baby had 3 shots today. She’s been my wimpiest child so far when it comes to shots. The other two would cry a few minutes and it was all over. Sienna (now 4 months) gets so clingy and whiny the rest of the day.

So back to my ability to jinx. It happened again. This time with sleeping. A couple of days ago I posted sleep tips for when your baby fights sleep. I figured I’d share what was really working for us as so many are plagued with a baby’s inability to sleep. Guess what?!  Three days later those sleep solutions were obsolete in my house! Damn.

Apparently hitting that official 4-month mark threw us all out of whack. She started rolling both directions. She has started drooling like crazy and chewing on her hand so it appears teething is upon us. To top it off, she has found her hands.

These all sound like great milestones, and they are…to a point. Until your baby starts terrorizing herself! When it’s time to sleep, she will no longer stay on her back. She’s freely rolling every direction possible. The moment she rolls, she is unhappy about it and cries. She gets herself so worked up over it that she can’t roll herself back over. Then you put a pacifier in her mouth. She grabs it, pulls it out, and then begins crying because someone took it away.

Each of these milestones has thrown a wrench in our “fail proof” sleep method. She won’t stay on her back. She won’t keep the pacifier in. She no longer snuggles up to her blanket and just drifts off. It has become a screaming/crying game because someone won’t stop bullying her. Herself!!

I just keep telling myself it’s all temporary. We will figure out what works in this new phase just like we did before. It just may take us a little time…and a whole lot of frustration!

By the way, she did finally go to sleep. About an hour and a half after I started writing this. Here we go again.

So again I will ask…any sleep tips of your own?