Sleep

I have heard that sleep is important. I have tried to explain this to Princess Kate and she disagrees. Why is it that when she was a newborn up to the age of about 5 months she slept GREAT? She used to go to bed around 9ish (usually by 8:30) and sleep until 4:00 am. Now at the old age of 6 months, I am begging her to close her beautiful eyes at 10:30 and then she is up by 1am and then is up at 3 am, 5 am and is up for the day at 6:15 a.m. She even started doing this before the time change so that isn't it. Last night she woke up at 1:00 a.m. (after going to sleep finally at 11:15 pm) and STAYED AWAKE until 4:45 a.m. She didn't want to eat, she wanted to kick me and poke my eyes if I tried to close them.

Yes, she sleeps with us (all of our kids did). I can't let her cry it out...I just can't do it. I have tried but I am too weak. Tonight I put the rocking chair & CD player in her bedroom and have tried to rock her with some quiet heartbeat music and she would not let herself go to sleep. She would almost be asleep and pop her head up and smile at me and start playing. So I put her in her crib and came down here. I could hear her crying and crying so I went up and she had somehow kicked her sock off inside her sleeper and both her feet were trapped in the body of it. She was MAD. I fixed her all up and she calmed right down and I came back down here. So far I don't hear any crying. My plan tonight is to keep her in her crib and hope that maybe the bed is just getting too crowded for her and since Daddy doesn't like to sleep on the couch I guess that means it is time for Miss Kate to try sleeping alone.

Does anyone out there have any idea's beyond "just let them cry". I can deal with her making noise and fussing in her crib, but not the horrible, sad/mad cry that makes real tears....

We don't need no stinkin' sleep!