Well, my little girl is now 6 months and 2 weeks old. Time goes by so fast! And my son is a full blown toddler, 21 months to be exact. They are both so dang cute! Both so beautiful, so full of life and energy, it drives me crazy! Each of them are in their own routine, which is beginning to line up in certain ways. Eden is now eating at breakfast, lunch and dinner time with the family and has a "snack" feeding before bed, and doing great. She LOVES her cereal, fruits and veggies!
We recently had her 6 month check up and she did wonderful, shots and all. But I was talking to my pediatrician (who I absolutely love) about her nighttime sleep because she was only sleeping 7-8 hours and would often wake up unwrapped, arms flailing everywhere, around 3:45 in the morning and that's just not right! What he told me was great, "maybe she's telling you something mom". It's time to stop wrapping her and let her begin to sleep on her own without the wrap. So I tried it and sure enough, with some warm jammies, classical music, her giraffe and cozy blanket she's sleeping much better through the night - 11 hours straight - I knew she could do it!
I was sitting here this morning quietly listening to the birds, I so love early summer mornings, but realized that babies are such responders. They so respond to us as parents, whatever it is, its incredible. But Eden woke herself (and me) at 3:45am and I had a choice to make when I went in to check on her. I could either go in and feed her to keep from waking the others up or I could go in with resolve and resettle her (I pat her back, turned on her music and ocean sounds, gave her the binky, re-covered her in her blanket) and leave her to go back to bed so she learns that 3:45am is NOT breakfast time. She fussed for a little bit, even cried a bit, but you know what, she fell back asleep and no one else was awakened. I was pleasantly surprised. All my concerns about waking the others up, will she go back to bed, totally answered. She responded!
Fighting for sleep and babies finding their way into family routine is a wonderful and worthwhile thing - I choose...TO SLEEP :o)
