Last night, Drake did NOT want to go to sleep! I laid him down a half-dozen times and within a few minutes or less he’d be back wide awake. At 11 p.m., Floyd comes upstairs after just getting home from a softball game. I passed Drake off to him to take over. I knew it would be tough on me this morning because I had to be in early for a special work assignment. So I finally fell asleep sometime around 11:30 p.m., and then I got up at 5:45 a.m. (admittedly after hitting the snooze a couple times!) to get in my workout and have time to get both Drake & I ready for the day. Of course, we ended up running behind schedule since I slept in a bit, and I was all alone after 7:30 since Floyd went out to play tennis with a friend.
This hectic, tiresome morning reminded me of my first day back to work at KWWL after maternity leave. I didn’t get to sleep until about 2:30 a.m. because Drake was just fighting his sleep so hard. So I went back to work for the first time on about 3 or 4 hours of sleep. ROUGH!
So, my dear son, how do you somehow instinctively know how to throw a wrench in your sleep schedule when it happens to be a day when I need to be up earlier than usual? It is probably just a random coincidence…but crazy and certainly tiresome!
I’m left to just hope for a smooth sailing day so I can get home and relax at some point! 
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This post was written by kmashek on June 13, 2012
I now understand what you are talking about! I have an 8 week old baby at home and she does the same thing whenever we have something going on the next day. Luckily I’m a teacher so I have the summer off, but it doesn’t make it any easier. At this point, most nights I only get a few hours of sleep, but I know there’s light at the end of the tunnel!
My son used to do that a lot when he was Drake’s age and even sometimes when he was older. After several nights of him waking up whenever I put him down, I finally decided just to go to the recliner and sleep there. We spent many a night in that recliner and some people may not agree with doing that, but I know it worked for my son & I because then we both got some sleep. My son will be 4 in July and he sleeps in his own bed. Some nights he still wakes up, but I just lay down beside him for a few minutes and he goes back to sleep. I will admit I sometimes fall asleep next to him, but I wouldn’t change anything. I know he will only be that age at that time for only that moment.
And it does get better! When I first came back to work, he was only sleeping 3 hours at a time. We’ve at least been lucky enough he’s been sleeping through the night since he was about 3 or 3 1/2 months old. So hang in there!