What?, you say! Sabrina is posting YET AGAIN this week. What's going on?
Well, Zane and I are currently engaged in NAP WAR.
Current score: Sabrina--BIG FAT ZERO!!!!
Zane--in the billions
No, not really. It's not that bad.
Since the last growth spurt--brutal, very brutal. Waking up every 45 minutes for three nights in a row. BRU-TAL! Oh, where was I. . . oh, yeah. . .since the last growth spurt I've been reading some books on infant sleep.
Now, according to the natural, go-with-the-flow style of parenting we've fallen into in the last six months, I sort of ASSUMED that when a baby is tired, he or she will actually do ?something? to go to sleep. Well, you know what happens when you ASSUME anything. I was totally, totally wrong.
And I've learned that our little guy is basically chronically sleep-deprived.
It would be easy to feel guilty about that but, nope, I'm not gonna. Not gonna do it. How was I to know? I don't know anything about sleep and have trouble sleeping myself. Not guilty.
The End.
Anyway. . .the method that seems most in line with my "will not let my baby cry it out" style is Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solutions. Very good advice. Very moderate about the scheduling. It ain't perfect, but nothing is. Good stuff. And no crying it out.
Then could SOMEONE please explain to me WHY that now we are following the "no cry" method MY BABY CRIES ALL.THE.TIME. ???
Seriously, this kid DOES NOT WANT TO NAP.
Yesterday it took and hour and 45 minutes to get him down for his morning nap. Today: an hour fifteen. That's what we call PROGRESS, people. Progress. And a whole lot of fussin'.
As for the nights. . .it seems that when he gets more sleep during the day he sleeps more/better at night. Again, a result of overcoming his, ahem, "chronic sleep deprivation." Wow. That makes me sound like an AWFUL mother.
Oh well.
Oh, yeah, and did I mention that my kid has a really short sleep cycle?
We're going to pull through this and he will become a better sleeper. I know I'll look back on this blip on the radar in ten years and think back fondly on how cute/sweet/precious this all was.
But now it feels like MORTAL COMBAT to get the little guy to sleep.
Truthfully, we ARE making progress. It feels like building the Great Wall brick by brick, but we are making progress!!!
More to come. . . and may the (nap) FORCE be with you!!!
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Ahhh - the Nap War of 2008. I have a feeling we are in for a long and brutal fight. The kiddoes (kiddos?) are conspiring and there's nothing we can do about it. For Bailey it was that she didn't want to go down for the night and woke up after only 40 minutes. But we got her back to sleep after about 30 minutes. Oh well. Here's to The Force!!!
My youngest is 26 yrs old. It's been so long I can't remember that stuff. I know my grandkids are going through those wars.
I see nothing wrong with sitting down in the rocking chair and singing and cooing and letting both baby and mom be comforted in each others cuddles.
I can assure you that when he is 10 you will be longing for those moments. (:
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