I feel so behind on my blogging. There are a host of subjects/things that I wanted to put down on the blog, and now it's all backed up. It's a challenge to put things down in limited frames of time. Nowadays, being able to read through and edit my post is a bit of a luxury.
Too few photos of late - that certainly needs to be rectified. But let's move on to other things.
Sleep training continues - now I understand why the whole sleep issue is such a big thing with parents. I would rank sleep training and breastfeeding as the 2 biggest concerns in my journey as a parent so far.
I never thought about a routine - I just assumed babies would sleep as and when they needed to and that the only training required was weaning them off night feeds so that they would sleep through the night.
Right now, she's doing a nap in the morning - about 4 days running so far. I've made a concerted effort to get her to sleep after about 2 hours of wakefulness. Afternoon naps are a little tougher - I can see that she's sleepy but just fights sleeping. Which is terrible because the lack of rest makes her cranky and it's just a vicious cycle thereafter. Currently, nights are erratic. Sometimes it's quite easy, and other times it's tough - she just refuses to be put down, crying in her crib. Which is strange because sometime back for about a period of 2 weeks I managed to get her to fall asleep pretty much around 7nish in the evening and she would wake up for just 1 feed in between, lasting all the way till the next morning.
We decided we couldn't do the cry it out method - so I've taken to being in the room as she cries, comforting her by patting and talking and singing to her, avoiding picking her up. It seems to have worked for the last 2 nights, but I had to be there around 30 minutes each time before she would give in to her sleepiness and doze off.
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ah!!! welcome to sleep training hell. something only parents can understand. for a moment of pain, its a lifetime of gain... only i still find it SO hard third time around!
it's never easy; reading your post reminds me of lying next to isaac, pretending to sleep so that he will sleep, then transferring him to his cot. sometimes i would fall asleep before he does...
but i found having a routine (u know, read a book/cuddle time/saying good night to papa or the stuffed animals) helps, even for the afternoon nap. persist in what you are doing now at night. currently it takes 30 min, but when ellis gets used to it, the time will shorten. and you can use the same method for her afternoon nap too.
hang in there. :)
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