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Anyone lurking on this lovely Saturday night?
We just finished watching episode 2 of this season's True Blood, and now I'm bored...
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Haha, I don't think I have any 'secrets'. Weston did have some phases that he would wake up every few hours or would wake up at 4am, but it never lasted more than a week. I am sure you have a set schedule at night. That has been our big thing. Does she have comfort items in the crib. I know she has the seahorse. Around 10 months, we added a blanket and a stuffed animal (this also helped with my plan on how to ease into the retirement of the pacifier).
I know this is the last thing you want to hear and you can slap me later, but taking her out may be making it worse. Weston didn't wake up crying much, and if he did he would usually comfort himself. If we would go in there, we would change his diaper 'tuck' him in and leave the room. We never brought him in bed with us or took him out because we didn't want to form any bad habits (of course we would take him and comfort him when he was really little). Babies can 'manipulate' pretty young. Weston would throw his pacifier and seahorse out at bedtime around 9 months because he knew I would go in and give it to him. I stopped once my pedi assured me he is not going to feel neglected if I let him cry.
Things off the top of my head...
Tylenol?
Put in multiple pacifiers?
Comfort items?
Music/white noise?
I just read the journal my mom kept when she was pregnant with me, and bawled my eyes out.
I also realized that my mom's baby (i.e. me) and my baby have the exact same due date. I had forgotten, because I was fashionably 18 days late. I find it a little eerie that the due date is exactly the same. Maybe mom's trying to make up for last time.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
No, no smacking here -- we were all about the sleep training and the schedule, and kpet it up well enough up until she started teething REALLY bad a couple of weeks ago.
Tylenol? I checked her temp and she's fine, and neither my pedi nor I agree with tylenol for teething.... I know, I sound like a horrible mother, but I'd rather give her something like oragel over tylenol.
Put in multiple pacifiers? Oh, we have the lineup on the table next to her crib.
Comfort items? Seahorse and her blanket-bear are always in the crib with her.
Music/white noise? Not really -- we used the Seahorse for music, and her room is at the front of the house and we live on a pretty busy street, so between that and the central AC unit right outside her window, she gets plenty of white noise.
And It's not like we jump up the minute we hear a sound...we do let her cry it out, to a point.... but if she's having 20-minute fits, it just leads me to think there's something else going on. And with the wakefulness, it makes me think it might be teething, but at the same time I don't want to get dependent on Oragel either, so I feel like I'm stick between a rock and a hard place. Luckily tonight she only had a fit that one time, and I was able to soothe her back to sleep after about half an hour of fussing. There have been a couple other moments of crying, but she was able to soothe herself back on her own, which REALLY makes me think it's her teeth..... so in the end I think this was really just a bought of HELP ME *rambleramble*
Thanks for dealing with my crazy!
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Keeping up with Sami's baby book is hard, and it makes me sad when I fall behind just for reasons like this... I would love to be able to give it to her when she's ready to have her own baby and have her look through it.
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Haha, it's all good. We are all allowed to have our moments once in a while.
It is kind of funny how you hear different things from different doctors. Weston's current and old peditrician(had to switch because the hours weren't working for us) told us not to use oragel. They said that it only last for like 10-15 minutes so it is not worth using, and most parents end up over using and that could cause harm. Who knows!
It's pretty cool to look at when I was doing things as a baby, and how mom's pregnancy went (since I can't ask her about it). She was so funny. Every day after her due date she washed her hair twice a day and shaved her legs so she would be fresh at the hospital and not have greasy hair. Oh the priorities she had...
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
I have two different doctors in our practice telling us both sides... I'm erring on the side of judgment because obviously anything in excess is never good. Like I said, I try not to use it often, because it's not a crutch... but I will say, that 10-15 minute span is really all we need. It's just enough to help her calm down and get back to sleep, so I am A-OK with that!
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Stand up for something you believe in.
Totes jealous of the cheesecake factory. Totes.
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