We Are Clearly Doing Something Wrong

After a glorious peak for most of October that involved Lucy regularly sleeping for 5 to 6 hour stretches (7 hours once!) and waking up only once a night, the sleeping situation has slowly devolved.

Those four weeks were heaven, I now see in retrospect.

We went from one waking to two, then to two and a half, then to three. Two nights ago, Lucy had already used up her allotted 3 night wakings by 2am.

Last night, she wouldn't even go back to sleep after her first waking/feeding at 11:30pm, and at 1:00 we finally broke down and brought her into the bed with us. (Shaggy had a midterm today at 8am and we just didn't have the fortitude to match wills with her all night.)  Through it all I had been saying to myself, "At least we haven't gone back to co-sleeping!" But then we did.

Certainly at some point I'll be able to sleep more than 2 hours at a stretch again, right?

If anyone has any advice or words of commiseration, feel free to share in the comments!