DADDY PLAYING UKULELE FOR ANSEL
If Ansel can survive Jeremy and me learning to be parents, he'll be ready to take on the world. I think we have been sleep depriving the poor thing. With my new work schedule he is waking up earlier but not going to bed earlier. He has been crankier in general recently and it did not occur to me that he should go to bed earlier. I figured that he sleeps whenever he wants during the day so he should be fine. Wrong. He also has not been napping well during the day. He went to bed earlier tonight so we'll see what his temperament is like tomorrow.
I am feeling contradicted by all the baby sleep theories out there. I started to read the "No Cry Sleep Solution" but haven't gotten very far into it yet. It has already made me feel bad about nursing him to sleep and then putting him down because then he wakes up in a different place than he fell asleep and will be upset. People who write these baby books have a way of making me feel like I'm a bad parent!
Ansel went to the zoo today for the first time. Cousin David is visiting so grandma and granddad, David, Ansel and I all went after I got off work. Ansel slept through most of it. The adults enjoyed it.
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the books all suck i've decided, i read the no cry but called it the cry cry because i felt like crying when trying to make changes to our sleep routine. i can't get ro to sleep even close to a schedule. some nights it is 8:30, others i force him to sleep at 11 when i fall over from exhaustion and force him to nurse! i tried for 2 nights to not nurse to sleep but couldn't keep it up. at least i know from athena that it will happen someday, unfortunately with her it took 2 years!
don't tell me that! 2 years! we'll see how far i get in the book. he had a better night last night. let's see if we can have two in a row!
sorry, I know 2 years sounds a long ways away, but now she seems so old and it makes me sad that she will never be at that stage again. Weird, I know, but trust me, in the scheme of their entire lives this is just such a small part. I know that doesn't help you RIGHT NOW - which is what you need sometimes when you are a walking zombie, but I just wanted you to know:)Sleep well baby Ansel. and if it makes you feel better, chris got rowan peacefully to sleep last night and had him laying in the cosleeper, he woke up about 5 minutes later and couldn't settle down without nursing. I was so excited too, but he did sleep a few hours when I put him down...i just want chris to be able to get him to sleep too - and for him to STAY asleep.
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