Update: Haley just went down for her SECOND nap today....on "time". I was lucky to get her to take one nap before. I feel horrible that it took me two months before I figured out how to be a parent. I know everyday won't be this easy, but seriously. I really wish I would have listened to my mom and also read this book earlier (and used a little more common sense). Sheesh....
Welcome back. And thanks for being nice.
We will call today day one. After two months of yo-yoing my parent approach, I've made a decision and I am sticking to it.
At first, our classes taught us...nurse baby and nurse baby often. She whimpers...I feed. We'll that is great and all if all you want to do it sit around and nurse literally all day. I tried to do a schedule but I was blindly and half heartedly following it.
Yesterday I got Baby Wise....and a big duh! Pretty much it is everything my mom has been telling me from day one...but who listens to their mom anyway.
So this is day one of my new approach. Well it actually started last night. She went to bed at 7. I woke her at 10 pm to eat and then she slept til 7 a.m. the little change of waking her up at 10 pm to feed cut out the 3 or 5 a.m. feeding! And eventually I will cut out the 10 pm feeding.
It is all common sense really, but it has the information I am unsure of like how many feedings she needs at each stage and how many hours of sleep..all that jazz. I wasn't sure she would ever actually nap. She seems to want to be up all day. Well I was wrong about that. She was just too tired to nap! I was watching for cues and like magic she was ready for a nap at the suggested nap time! Hopefully this continues to go so smoothly because I feel as if my life just got better and Haley will be a lot happier as well.
Yesterday she got shots. That was good times. Everything it looking pretty good. She has gained more than her fair share of weight so breastfeeding is going beautifully. She's growing like a weed but isn't looking like she is going to be freakishly tall like her momma. Actually she is very average for her height which shocked us all.
This parenting thing is pretty crazy. Just when you think your getting the hang of it..something proves that wrong. But I'm slowly learning.
Besides that I've got nothing...oh ya I did have yet another crazy dream that really boggled me. I guess it was the extra sleep last night. I thought the dreams would go away once the pregnant hormones went away. I guess I was wrong. I think I could write a pretty interesting book simply based on my dreams.
Well...that is all for now. Wish me luck on being baby wise.
*Bre
Welcome back. And thanks for being nice.
We will call today day one. After two months of yo-yoing my parent approach, I've made a decision and I am sticking to it.
At first, our classes taught us...nurse baby and nurse baby often. She whimpers...I feed. We'll that is great and all if all you want to do it sit around and nurse literally all day. I tried to do a schedule but I was blindly and half heartedly following it.
Yesterday I got Baby Wise....and a big duh! Pretty much it is everything my mom has been telling me from day one...but who listens to their mom anyway.
So this is day one of my new approach. Well it actually started last night. She went to bed at 7. I woke her at 10 pm to eat and then she slept til 7 a.m. the little change of waking her up at 10 pm to feed cut out the 3 or 5 a.m. feeding! And eventually I will cut out the 10 pm feeding.
It is all common sense really, but it has the information I am unsure of like how many feedings she needs at each stage and how many hours of sleep..all that jazz. I wasn't sure she would ever actually nap. She seems to want to be up all day. Well I was wrong about that. She was just too tired to nap! I was watching for cues and like magic she was ready for a nap at the suggested nap time! Hopefully this continues to go so smoothly because I feel as if my life just got better and Haley will be a lot happier as well.
Yesterday she got shots. That was good times. Everything it looking pretty good. She has gained more than her fair share of weight so breastfeeding is going beautifully. She's growing like a weed but isn't looking like she is going to be freakishly tall like her momma. Actually she is very average for her height which shocked us all.
This parenting thing is pretty crazy. Just when you think your getting the hang of it..something proves that wrong. But I'm slowly learning.
Besides that I've got nothing...oh ya I did have yet another crazy dream that really boggled me. I guess it was the extra sleep last night. I thought the dreams would go away once the pregnant hormones went away. I guess I was wrong. I think I could write a pretty interesting book simply based on my dreams.
Well...that is all for now. Wish me luck on being baby wise.
*Bre
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