Exhausted

That describes me right now.

Two steps forward, one step back. I feel like that's what we've been doing over the past month. Things had been going fairly well. I was learning Zoe's tired signals and being pretty proactive about putting her down before she got overtired. Almost like clockwork, she'd go down and have a nice long nap. I felt like we were making progress. She was sleeping about 7-9 hours at night without waking up. We were getting there. Or so I thought.

The past two weeks have been exhausting. For some reason, Zoe just stopped doing all of that. I am doing the same things, but she is refusing to sleep, even though she is exhausted. I put her down and she fusses and cries. When she does fall asleep, she wakes up 20 minutes later. We spend most of the evening hours trying to get her to sleep. When we finally do (this could be a three hour process, by the way) she still wakes up once or twice at night. On top of that, she still wakes up at her normal time of 6 am. What is the deal? I am physically exhausted and don't know what to do. I am also mentally exhausted - constantly thinking about what to do and trying to read about what I should be doing and then trying to sift through every one and their mother's opinions on what we should do. Yikes! I'm having a tiring mom month. Please pray for me if I come to mind. I need strength and grace to get through the days, lately.