A couple of nights ago I think Z had her first nightmare. It was only about 10:30 PM but she had been down for about a good hour and all of a sudden I heard these really sad sounding wails. I waited to see if she would fall back asleep but they began to sound more and more pitiful. It wasn’t your normal hungry, gassy or upset cry. It was the most sad sounding cry I have ever heard! When I went in there, her top lip was tucked under and she was making the saddest face while crying, as if she was scared for her life. I gave her a paci and rubbed her belly until she fell back asleep. I have no idea how my heart is going to handle it when she first falls and hurts herself. Haha.. Oh boy am I in for it.

So Gene gave Z a bath last night, as it is tradition in our house and afterwards he put her in a prefold with a cover. I mentioned that we would just have to change her into an All In One diaper (they hold more & don’t leak as bad.. she usually sleeps in these kind) before she went to bed. Well, to our surprise she finished her bottle and went to bed really early (9:30 PM). Gene put her in bed and we didn’t think anything of it. This morning I went in to get her when I heard her making noise at 9 AM and all I could smell was URINE. I gave her a few ounces of formula and then went to change her diaper and that is when it hit me… We totally forgot to change her into an AIO diaper! Parenting FAIL! I went in and took her jimjams and her diaper off and it was soaked and her jimjams were soaked. Who knows how long this little baby had been laying in a soaked diaper and jimjams? All 11 1/2 hours that she was asleep?!?! Wow.. She really DOES like her sleep if she wont even wake up for that.

I let her bottom air out for a while on the changing table before putting another diaper on her. See, if you aren’t familiar with cloth diapers, prefolds are absorbent but the cloth is touching the baby’s skin, which is why you have to change diapers more frequently with this system. All In Ones are made so that the fabric touching the baby’s skin will wick away the moisture onto the doubler underneath it, keeping the baby feeling dry. Ick. My poor girl had pee touching her skin ALL night long! I put some diaper cream on just to be safe and let her air out and I think she’s fine. Apparently she didn’t care or she would not have slept for 11 1/2 hours straight.