Wake up and smell the baby!!!

I just had an interesting conversation
with my husband on the telephone. He asked me how
the night went, how often I had to get up with Baby J
(it's always interesting to me that he'll ask that
some times much in the same way someone who
was not even at our house will ask about it).
Anyway, I told him I fed him at 9pm, then
1:30am, 3:30, 5:30 and then this morning.
He said that I didn't feed him at 5:30,
that I couldn't have, because he was up getting
ready for work then and he would have noticed it.
He said I was asleep in the bed.So this caused me to wonder---
did I or did I not get up and feed the child at that time?
I was pretty sure I had.
I'm always checking the clock.
I do nothing but sit and look at the clock
while I am up with the baby in the night.
(Maybe we shouldn't rely so much
on our sun dial, huh?)

But I also remember when Lovely K was a newborn
and I was in the sleep deprived state
(that would be Tennessee),
a couple of times she would cry in the night
and I would dream that I had her, and think that I was
actually attending to her needs, and Lloyd Dobbler
would wake me up wondering what in the world
I was doing. One time I was sitting there in the bed,
rocking her in my arms (I thought), but she was actually
in her bed across the hallway hollering.
So it has happened before that I have kind of dreamed
that I'd done something that I hadn't actually done.
(oh, sometime remind me to tell you about
the ridiculous incident with the Kimball collectible
figurines---or all the sleep talking conversations I had
with my husband when he traveled all the time
----I can do stuff in my sleep is what I am saying...
it has happened before.)

I've been frustrated with the two hour intervals
that seem to prevail at night. This child is a month old now.
He should be able to go longer than two hours.
But he will have this one longer stretch at the first
part of the night, and then we are up and screaming
every two hours after that.


And it's always two hours
in a way that almost makes you think the kid is
watching the clock in his room. I'm thinking
that it's a habit. I need to find my book and remind
myself of things I did before.
I used to be the queen of baby scheduling
and other people would call me with questions
about what to do with their unscheduled kids.
Now I have forgotten everything I ever did
and I'm probably doing it all wrong.
Starting horrible habits.
Messing this kid up.
Making things harder for us down the road.
Where is that book?



So by a show of hands,
let's have a vote here
and you tell me
if you think I got up with the child,
as I seem to recall doing
(though I am
doubting myself now)
or if I just imagined this.



Have you ever done anything in your sleep?