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May. 31st, 2009 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosIt's close to 1 AM. Bennett has finally - FINALLY - consented to sleeping. He had two half hour naps, passed out at 7.30, slept for two hours. I came to bed at 9.30 and my mere presence woke him up. It's like he's got special mama radar that functions eve in the heaviest of his sleeping. He would not go back to sleep.
Our night:
Nursing, snuggling, singing, bottle, repeat the first three. Headbutts, squirming, babbling, kicking. Swaddling, nursing, singing, stroking, bottle. Crying, flailing, hands and knees, chasing fairies (or something that he can see and I can't) up the wall, kicking Adam repeatedly in the upper extremities. Bottle, cuddling, stroking. Kicking, crying, laughing. Adam leaves for the couch. Sleeping! Crying, all fours, crawling, whacking head into wall. Light on, diaper change, nursing, cuddling. Screaming, sobbing, squirming, passing out. Sneaking out to pee..... AWAKE! Crying, snuggling, nursing. ASLEEP!
Peeing, water, snack, internet, bed.
OY.
Good thing I'll be fresh and rested for the portraits that we're getting taken tomorrow.
Our night:
Nursing, snuggling, singing, bottle, repeat the first three. Headbutts, squirming, babbling, kicking. Swaddling, nursing, singing, stroking, bottle. Crying, flailing, hands and knees, chasing fairies (or something that he can see and I can't) up the wall, kicking Adam repeatedly in the upper extremities. Bottle, cuddling, stroking. Kicking, crying, laughing. Adam leaves for the couch. Sleeping! Crying, all fours, crawling, whacking head into wall. Light on, diaper change, nursing, cuddling. Screaming, sobbing, squirming, passing out. Sneaking out to pee..... AWAKE! Crying, snuggling, nursing. ASLEEP!
Peeing, water, snack, internet, bed.
OY.
Good thing I'll be fresh and rested for the portraits that we're getting taken tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-05-31 02:59 pm (UTC)We tried moving B to his own bed two months ago. Not pretty. I have no desire to try that again. It will happen, eventually.
I don't think that B is ready to wean either. I don't think that women who wean after a year are bad mothers, nor those who don't bed share. B sleeps much better with us, LJ post not withstanding. B is very independent and has no fear of strangers at all, weaning will have nothing to help with there.
I also firmly believe that you can't make any one sleep. You can assist them to calm down, you can create an environment that facilitates sleep - effectively teaching tools to help them put themselves to sleep - but you can't make any one sleep. If I had stuck B in a place all by himself that wouldn't have helped him to sleep, it would have only frightened him.
I *was* frustrated last night, and that's ok.
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:09 am (UTC)Anyway, all three of mine weaned themselves. The oldest was three, the second was two, and quit when the milk changed to colostrum before the third one was born. And the third just about made it to a year before he quit.
As for the bed, ours is a waterbed, so I just put the babies down at night in the same place they napped during the day -- their bassinet/crib. Co-sleeping was only occasional, and it was in a regular twin bed in the baby's room. As a SAHM, time to myself was precious! ;)
Hi!
Date: 2009-06-01 03:03 am (UTC)Re: Hi!
Date: 2009-06-01 11:48 am (UTC)You can imagine my surprise with baby #2, when I laid her down once so I could go to the bathroom, and instead of screaming the whole time, she just quietly fell asleep!