Dear Aidan,
You were a total nightmare last night. Where do I even begin?!?! It started with me putting you to bed around 9pm. You were doing so well until you woke up around 11:30pm. Then it was all downhill from there. You woke up crying every half hour until I had to put you to bed with us around 2am. But instead of falling asleep in our bed you were trying to crawl all over us. I don't think you were even remotely tired. I feel bad for daddy because he had to work today. He must be exhausted. I know I am! I was so frustrated with you that I handled you pretty roughly in our bed. Daddy yelled at me to be more gentle with you. I do apologize for that, but I was so frustrated! Anyways I'm a zombie today. You woke up pretty early too so I didn't even have a chance to take a nap. Plus, when I was trying to do our taxes today I put you in your crib for you to take a nap (you dozed off in my arms you see), but right when I put you down you woke up and started crying uncontrollably. I read somewhere that this kind of reaction is normal because babies this age tend to get separation anxiety. Some experts say that you should go away so that your baby can learn to soothe themselves to sleep. Let me say that I let you cry for an hour and I couldn't cope with the screaming/crying. I'm just so frustrated at you! Why can't you learn how to fall asleep on your own??? The only way I can do that is while I'm feeding you, but I can't do that forever. Anyways, after an hour I had to go pick you up because you were a complete mess. I fed you and I guess all that crying made you fall asleep on me. I put you down in your playpen so you are sleeping right now.
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