Mid-February to Mid-March: No Sleep.

I meant to write a part-two from the last blog post but things happened and none of those things included blogging.

I had been wondering about the amitriptyline, as I said in my last post. Eleanor the Great had been so well for so long (3 months) that it occurred to me that we might never know if/when we should take her off the medicine. But then... Starting somewhere in the middle of February her sleep began to take a dive. It started by just a bit of sleep disruption here or there and continued to get worse and worse. By the third week the child was NOT sleeping. I was up with her for 2-4 hours each night. At first she was able to get to school regardless of her bad nights, but by the third week she had a bad cold and wasn't sleeping and missed a whole week of school. Somewhere in the middle of zero-sleep-newborn-nights hell, it hit me that maybe because she was growing her medicine was not enough anymore. Quite the opposite than I had been thinking. Dr. Li, affectionately known as The Wizard of CVS on this blog, he mentioned last August that Ellie could be on a much higher dose of amitriptyline but we didn't change it at that time because it seemed to be doing it's job.

Sure enough, 4-5 nights after we doubled her dosage she began sleeping through the nights again. Ugh. Those were a long 3 weeks! But nothing like the week we just had...