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HAHA I never slept and still don't either. And I am sure if the thought occured to my mom she would have slipped me a mickey too.
But that was a great post!
Michele sent me. Again.
The kind of well-written story that keeps you awake. Here from Michele's.
Nice joint.
Our first-borne nearly killed us. We couldn't put him in his crib without the wail that would wake the dead. We couldn't stand it, so we would take turns walking the floor for hours. He'd fall asleep, we'd put him down, he'd wake up and start all over again. I finally learned that after he fell asleep, I would lie down with him on my chest and he would be content. I spent many nights w/him on my chest.
When our daughter was born, we swore we wouldn't go through that again. So we endured 3 nights of hours of screaming before she fell asleep exhausted. I still don't know how we survived the guilt, but after the 3rd night she would only cry half-heartedly a few minutes before going to sleep.
They (18 and 19 now) both sleep as long as I leave them in bed. Typical teenagers during a summer of no school, no work.
I get so cranky after just a few days without a full eight hours of sleep that I cannot conceive of years of deprivation - you are a super hero!
Happy Belated BD to your Belle! Love your sense of humor. "Mommy is a slug." 
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Cooincidentally,
I wished my belle (not her real name) Happy BD on my other blog, which is musically oriented, a few months ago! (Http://Green-EyedLady.Blogspot.com)
I read several other posts here. Extremely interesting site. I like. I like very much. :D
Bookmarked you.
How dorky is it that even though she's grown, I want to watch her for a night so you can get some sleep...? People hate me because my kid started sleepng through the night at 6 weeks. And boy, can that kid still sleep...!
I have seen Belle's picture...she is beautiful, when exactly does she get all of this beauty sleep?
Have you seen that show SUPERNANNY? or NANNY 911...they should have SuperMomma! You sure were one! Supernanny did just that..she left the kid for two nights screaming and by the third night with the parents on the floor sobbing the kid finally
"learned" how to put itself to sleep, hmm you will never know huh! By the way>>Me too.. I have you on my favorites list..I like the writing and your humor it keeps me going during my day! Thanks!!!
Belle had a birthday last week and didn't mention it?
Sigh.
I bet she could have gotten a free dessert at dinner Thursday night, too.
-G
Delightful post - it's amazing they survive infanthood and grow up to be such charming people isn't it? One of mine didn't like to sleep either, but she more than made up for it during her teenage years!
Well, sure, Mom. You had to get some sleep so you could get up the energy to write this. Everybody understands that.
(Have you come close to catching up?)
Happy birthday, Non-Sleeping Beauty.
Mamacita:
P.S. I think you volunteered to email the place where someone could look at your Schoolnotes (or Classnotes?) site. My daughter the teacher is interested in knowing what one looks like. I'm at mbenditem@msn.com Thanks.
Gene Maudlin
I felt my eyes widening in horror as I read your post. All sorts of frigthening thoughts that omg, there's no way I could deal with this if I had a child like that, I'd run for the hills. It's also very funny because I don't plan to have kids for ages yet.
How did you survive? The human body can surely withstand the unwitthstandamable. I hope you had some ice cream for her birthday, you deserved it. 
Happy Be-lated birthday Belle!
Couldn't get up a comment over at the book entry, but DAMN I just hate a snake. EWWWWW. Specially a gazillion of 'em.
Wow! that could be my 10 year old daughter your talking about, we slipped her a mickie also and it didnt work either, except to make me feel guilty about trying to drug my daughter. 
It's nice to talk to another "survivor" of an energizer bunny whose batteries NEVER go dead!
Happy Birthday Belle!
Hehheh. Both my brothers were clinically hyperactive. Didn't sleep and didn't stop moving. It wasn't that they couldn't concentrate, because they certainly did. But they weren't much on the sleeping thing. Neither am I! My mother gave my brother whiskey. She said he loved being drunk but it didn't make him go to sleep.
Happy Birthday to The Daughter In Question!
What could be worse than a wide-awake drunk baby?
BTW, the first three months after the birth of my eldest was the longest year of my life. Finally, I picked a reasonable time (8:00pm), shut the door, and held my head in my hands with my eyes on the clock. Per Dr. Spock, you are supposed to do this in 20 min increments. It took 3 nights of suffering (me) before she gave up, but it was never easy until we put the new baby in the same room with her 2 years later.
My parents kept a bottle of brandy in my bedroom when I was infant. A wide-awake infant. I have a sleeping disorder and I drove my parents batty.
They slipped me a few mickey's while I was growing up.
And sorry, but I'm a slug.
I am a little late reading your story. But so great. And written with love. Great job! Those kids!!
ok, dumb question, but what's a mickey?
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