Sleep training.... “What exactly does that mean”? That was Marcy’s response to that last night when I told her that I was sleep training Kaia this weekend. It means I am trying to teach Kaia to fall asleep on her own instead of falling asleep while eating and soothing herself at my breast. Oh no need to worry I am still nursing my baby I am definitely not ready to give that up yet. I just want her to be able to go to bed and fall asleep without having to be rocked and fed. All the books tell me that she is at an age where this is possible. Apparently it should take about 3 days and she will be falling asleep on her own without fail. Today is day one and the first nap of the day took mmm about a half hour of crying and she is still asleep 45 minutes later. My new bed time routine for my little stinker will consist of a bath on some nights, a bedtime story, a bedtime feed and then hopefully bed time. Maybe not in that order but the key is to put her to bed when she is still aware that she is being moved to her bed. So even if she is starting to doze on my breast....time for bed. And my goal for Kaia is one feed in the middle of the night. She is actually already there pretty much. She only usually gets up once in the middle of the night. But that is also due to the fact that we don’t get her in her bed till late like around 1130 or 1200. It happens that way because I start feeding at say 10 and she eats and eats and then dozes and then I wait until she is really deeply asleep so that when I transfer her to her bed she doesn’t wake. It takes a while sometimes. And on some nights she wakes up when I put her down. So the cycle has to start all over again. This night time routine is getting old...so it’s time for me to take control for my own sanity. I think that this new routine will go smoothly Kaia is going to be a quick little learner I just know it. When I told Dad today that it only took her a half hour to fall asleep at nap time his response was. “That’s the Hood blood in her”. I think my work might be with Erick....he’s a softy. Kaia is still sleeping in our room in her cradle and I think that with this new routine will also bring Kaia into her own room...which means crib shopping. Erick’s family gave kaia money for Christmas for purchasing a new crib.
Sleep Sleep Sleep.....for me for Kaia and for all. I can’t wait.
As I was reading up on sleep training a little bit more today I started to have feelings of sadness...I am ready for Kaia to move into falling asleep on her own I know that I need to do it for my own sanity. But all of a sudden I had this feeling of sadness that my baby is growing and isn’t going to need me for certain things as much. There is this teeny tiny little part of me that wants to delay sleep training so I can savour my baby for longer. But I know that this is the right thing to do for our future. I can see how some babies have sleep issues though it all stems from the Moms not wanting to give up the baby stages...or listen to the cries at night. I am so not the type of parent that will struggle with my child to sleep nor will you ever find me lying down with my child in order for her to fall asleep. It all starts now. Wow....this inner dialogue in my head is so confusing. Sleep Sleep sleep come to me....I am ready.
Oh and as if the sleep training hurdle wasn’t enough of a wakeup call that my baby is growing...I also read this morning that rice cereal can start around 4 months...Kaia is 4 months in 3 days....tear tear tear...she is growing so fast. I plan to make my own rice cereal so more research is in order to learn how to make this cereal. That will give me some time to come to terms with yet another milestone for baby Kaia.
Oh and we went on a trip this last weekend and of course Kaia was in disposables....we had a blow out every single day. We even bought the next size up to see if that was the issue. But there was still more blow outs. I was so dang excited to get my baby back into her outfit saving, enviro saving and pocket book saving cloth diapers. I just can’t rave enough about our decision to put our little bum bum in cloth diapers.
Oh and Happy Birthday Dad!!
Sleep Sleep Sleep.....for me for Kaia and for all. I can’t wait.
As I was reading up on sleep training a little bit more today I started to have feelings of sadness...I am ready for Kaia to move into falling asleep on her own I know that I need to do it for my own sanity. But all of a sudden I had this feeling of sadness that my baby is growing and isn’t going to need me for certain things as much. There is this teeny tiny little part of me that wants to delay sleep training so I can savour my baby for longer. But I know that this is the right thing to do for our future. I can see how some babies have sleep issues though it all stems from the Moms not wanting to give up the baby stages...or listen to the cries at night. I am so not the type of parent that will struggle with my child to sleep nor will you ever find me lying down with my child in order for her to fall asleep. It all starts now. Wow....this inner dialogue in my head is so confusing. Sleep Sleep sleep come to me....I am ready.
Oh and as if the sleep training hurdle wasn’t enough of a wakeup call that my baby is growing...I also read this morning that rice cereal can start around 4 months...Kaia is 4 months in 3 days....tear tear tear...she is growing so fast. I plan to make my own rice cereal so more research is in order to learn how to make this cereal. That will give me some time to come to terms with yet another milestone for baby Kaia.
Oh and we went on a trip this last weekend and of course Kaia was in disposables....we had a blow out every single day. We even bought the next size up to see if that was the issue. But there was still more blow outs. I was so dang excited to get my baby back into her outfit saving, enviro saving and pocket book saving cloth diapers. I just can’t rave enough about our decision to put our little bum bum in cloth diapers.
Oh and Happy Birthday Dad!!
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