Sweet Sleep

Last night was M's sleep study, it went pretty good. We got there at 7:40pm which we were suppose to be there at 7:45 so we could sign in and be ready, so good right?. Not so much! M and I, along with another mother and daughter, had to wait til they came and got us at 8pm. That was a little bit of a pain since is was already pasted M's bed time. Once we got up to the room it went pretty quickly-at lest it felt like it. Each of the kids there got their own nurse for the whole night, that was really nice. The whole process to hook her up to the wires took over an hr. She had
2 pads on each leg
4 pads on her chest
2 bands-one around her tummy the other around her chest(right under the armpits)
5 sensors on her face
6 sensors on her head that had to be glued on
this long plastic sensor that went between her nose and her lip
a nasal oxygen tube, but it didn't have oxygen in it
a sensor on her finger
And to top all that she also had diapers on her hands so she couldn't pull at any of the wires-I'm not even joking it was real preemie diapers. She was NOT happy about those, ok with any of it but really not those-or the nose things. During all this she got to watch Finding Nemo, so that helped a little bit.

After wards she went out pretty quick. Not that I was to surprised it was WAY passed her bed time at this point. I wasn't that tired, and I was really thirsty so I headed down to the cafeteria to get something to drink(and a bag of chips cuz they were calling to me:)! ) I also called hubby and told him she was sleeping and how it all went so far. I only spent about 20mins down there, besides they were "kicking" us out at 6am so I figured I better get some sleep. I had just gotten back in the room and was about to lay down when I heard her fussing. She had lost her bink so I gave it back to her, but during this moment she realized she couldn't grab her blanket and then freaked out. I tried to calm her down for about 10 mins with it only getting worse, so the nurse came in and helped me out. I ended up leaving so she couldn't see me. It took the nurse another 25mins or so to get her to fall back asleep. After that the nurse came and got me told me "She's stubborn!" No news here! She ended up waking up 2 other times and both times the nurse came in and got her back to sleep, I just laid there hoping and praying she didn't see me, cuz then it would have been worse. I know I'm a tough mom(as far as discipline goes), and if it was at home no problem I could get her to go back to sleep pretty easy. The problem was I couldn't really hug her or hold her which is what she wanted. And she also couldn't really hold her blanket like she normally does(she holds it up to her cheek-which was covered with tape). It was hard. I'm so glad the nurse took over. She just held her down so she couldn't roll around, and calmed her down til she went back out.
In the morning we were suppose to get up at 6am, but since she had the hard time going down, she wanted her to have some extra time so she didn't come wake me til 6:30. Then it was time to take all the stuff off. Which M did wonderfully!! She cried a few times(who wouldn't that had tape "riped" off your face), but it only lasted a second or so. She also got to finish watching the rest of Finding Nemo which helped of course! It took us over an hr to get home since it was rush hr traffic when we left. M got in a good 70min nap when we got home and I got a little one in too. Though hubby told me he knows I was really tired when I got home, cuz I had to make is lunch, and apparently I must have grabbed some of the deli meat paper along with the ham when I made is sandwich. Yeah I'm a little tired still! We will not find out the results for another 2-3 weeks.