ChiKat

My son does not sleep well. He is almost 5 months old, and he does not sleep for more than three hours at night. I am very tired. I am also very tired of talking about it. Lots of loving and supportive family members want to know how he's doing, but there are only so many ways I can say, "Fantastic…oh, except for sleeping."

I get a lot of advice. He's not sleeping because of my diet. Or because he isn't wearing the right pajamas. Or because I'm using the wrong laundry detergent. But the advice always gets back to my diet. I need to stop eating (choose any that apply): dairy, onions, tomatoes, all vegetables, hot peppers, Mexican food, Indian food and/or Italian food.

Ugh.

The whole diet things drives me a little insane, since I've already been on an extreme restricted diet and I know how hard it is. When people nonchalantly tell me to cut something out of my diet to see if it helps, I want to beat my head against the wall because it's not that easy. It takes awhile for food to get out of your system, and you're trying to decide is one change in a highly varied diet has an impact on a screaming infant.

Then again, I haven't slept in four ½ months, so eating just oatmeal for a month is starting to sound better and better.