Preparing for Grandma and Grandpa to visit:
Micah: "I love Papa!"
Luke: "I love chicken!"
Micah, after being in bed about 20 minutes: "I can't sleep. My tears keep waking me up!"
Luke, after I asked him to help me put something away: "I'm a big heavy man."
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
To sleep or not to sleep...
I've been trying really hard to make parenting decisions for myself (with Glen's input and wisdom too, of course) rather than what I see other's doing. Every child and every family is different so I know that what works for one person may not work for me, but it's easy for me to want to do what I see other's doing.
I'm having a hard time deciding whether to give CIO a try or not. Josiah is 8.5 months and still waking up several times per night. He pretty much nurses to sleep two times during the day. At night when he wakes up I'd say a couple times he's hungry. If he hasn't nursed well during the day I can count on him wanting to eat more throughout the night. As far as whether to cry it out, I just don't know whether I can do it. On one hand I do enjoy rocking him and nursing him at night, I like having him fall asleep nursing, I like the ease and convenience of nursing him to sleep, and I want to relish the time I'm able to rock him because I know it's fleeting. On the other hand, the 2-5 wake-ups each night is wearing on me, I am pretty much the only person who can get him to sleep because he won't take a bottle, if he does need to go to sleep and isn't hungry it can be a challenge and take a lot of time.
If I had to pick right now I think I would continue as I'm currently doing. It's familiar. As much as I'd like to sleep all night and have the ease of laying him down and him going to sleep on his own, I'm not sure it's worth the crying he would have to do. I know he would/could probably out-last me.
Ugh, I so wished he would be a good sleeper and pretty much train himself. I should have known better. Oh well, at least he's cute.
I'm having a hard time deciding whether to give CIO a try or not. Josiah is 8.5 months and still waking up several times per night. He pretty much nurses to sleep two times during the day. At night when he wakes up I'd say a couple times he's hungry. If he hasn't nursed well during the day I can count on him wanting to eat more throughout the night. As far as whether to cry it out, I just don't know whether I can do it. On one hand I do enjoy rocking him and nursing him at night, I like having him fall asleep nursing, I like the ease and convenience of nursing him to sleep, and I want to relish the time I'm able to rock him because I know it's fleeting. On the other hand, the 2-5 wake-ups each night is wearing on me, I am pretty much the only person who can get him to sleep because he won't take a bottle, if he does need to go to sleep and isn't hungry it can be a challenge and take a lot of time.
If I had to pick right now I think I would continue as I'm currently doing. It's familiar. As much as I'd like to sleep all night and have the ease of laying him down and him going to sleep on his own, I'm not sure it's worth the crying he would have to do. I know he would/could probably out-last me.
Ugh, I so wished he would be a good sleeper and pretty much train himself. I should have known better. Oh well, at least he's cute.
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