Tonight 7:20 I walked in the door from showing houses and Chris handed a drowsy baby bathed and ready for milk. He nursed and I put him in his crib half asleep. Chris left for softball and I thought I had it easy. Then it was Jacob's bed time routine and today did not go well, I heard it all" I am thirsty(no more water after 7), I have growing pains( lotion massage), (touching my shirt)your gaginas are cool(what? are you talking about, these are my boobs) Oh, boobs are cool because they have milk(was that an indirect request for milk??),please walk with me like you do max(guilt guilt guilt..I walked him around his room)" and then Max woke up with a vengeance. While I was in the room to consoling Max and I saw Jacob's shadow it scared me and I shouted "JACOB" which scared him so, he started crying. At 900, I had max screaming in one room and Jacob in another. I let Max cry and explained to Jacob that he startled me and he told me I startled him. Just when I thought I was going to start crying louder than both boys, Chris walked in the door.Took over Max as I held Jacob. This was so much harder than I imagined.
Max's cries were increasing and then I thought of the link I received from a reader,Joy, about tension increasers and decreasers. Max's tension was def. increasing by the minute and so was mine. So, I decided to take him out, calm him down, nurse him on the rocking chair and then put him back to bed in the crib drowsy. I feel good and most of all he is asleep in his crib. I will worry about the sleep training again tomorrow. For now, I just want Max to like his crib.
2 comments:
You are doing great! HUGS from me.
Good luck tonight! I have read EVERY sleep book known to humanity--and really, the only thing that worked for us was crying in arms (no nursies and any wake ups after bed time were handled by the non-nursing mommy, we did this around 11 months or so). Cry it out alone just leads to projectile vomit in our house--so I hope the whole increaser/decreaser stuff was helpful. And, apparently around 8-9 months sucks for everyone in the sleep department too...
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