Sorry for the long break from my last blog. Things were kind of dull on my end. Which is a good thing. DD has been feed free through the night for at least 4 weeks. No feeds at all. Shes been pretty consistent sleeping 10p-7a. She has woken but was soothed back to sleep either by herself or by a quick visit after giving her some time to sort it out. Its amazing. The swaddle has stayed. Crisis averted. We found a new swaddle that she loves. I didn't think to try it because DS hated it. The Woombie. Its got enough give that she isnt too constricted but it does allow her some wiggle room. I bought one, she loved it so much that i had to go out and get another one cause when i tried to launder it and i had to use the swaddle me, she would look at me like are you kidding me lady.. Needless to say we now have 2. (and a third winter one on order) In the past 2 weeks My lil baby has transformed. It happened in literally a blink of an eye. She is no longer a newborn. She's transitioned to a baby and MY GOSH is she cute! The past week or more i have noticed that she stays awake easily. Is so observant. AND she doesn't want to take full 2 hr naps as she use to. Either she isn't ready to go to sleep and cries in the start of her nap OR she falls asleep fine and wakes early and cries to the end of her nap. Scratching my head i realized... this baby girl is ready to graduate to a baby schedule and not a newborn schedule anymore. Basically she would be dropping a nap (from 5 naps to 4 naps) and be staying awake longer then an hour at a time. I think i've known she was ready for a while but i'm deathly afraid of change. My DS held on to all his naps forever. He took 3 naps a day till 10 mos and 2 naps a day till 18 mos. Well this morning i woke up and the lil miss was so smiley and awake and cooing that i didn't want to put her back to bed. So i didn't. I brought her over to our bed where her brother and dad were and we had a big family cuddle watching Curious George. Somehow i got the guts to admit to myself... this baby girl is ready to graduate. So i kept her up to have breakfast with us and by the time it was time for her first nap... she was sooo ready. Slept like a champ the whole 2 hrs. Did the same for all the naps the rest of the day. Her wake up and bedtime will stay the same but heres hoping that it solved the short nap dilemma. I had to text Debbie today because i was in such awe. What a difference. I didn't start training (or even knew it existed) till my DS was 4.5 mos. The struggles i faced with him aren't even a thought in my mind. I literally feed her and put her in her crib. Awake or asleep, it doesn't matter. She does all the work. She's happy all the time. Not tired or cranky. I can see all the things i took away from my DS in rushing to him the second he squeaked. Picking him up and rocking him isn't want he needed or wanted. He needed to learn how to put himself to sleep. Not teach me how to do it for him. I thought i was helping him by rocking and holding him but now i realize that isnt at all what he was wanting. I guess its all a matter of perspective. Yes DD cries a bit. But by a bit i mean 5 min MAX. She doesn't even cry as much as shouts. Some people may think thats mean and horrible. I use to be one of those people. I remember before my son was born i vowed i would never let him cry. Well he was crying cause he was so tired anyway so really...i was no further ahead. I've learned so much about infant sleep and cues and what they are really wanting to say and need that i sometimes scare myself. We have weekly clinics through PMB and im still doing mini training programs. Sometimes when i read a question or email and realize how common all the issues are i understand that its normal. BUT we can help create a new normal. In other news. DD got to try out the jolly jumper yesterday. OMG she loved it. Can you believe it... my baby girl is almost 3 mos old. YIKES.. i had a talk with her today and told her to slow down.. stay small... not sure how much she will listen to me there.... but at least she listens when i tell her "I Love you, Goodnight. Go to sleep." Stay tuned as DD has 4 schedules to get through till she reaches her goal bedtime.
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Sorry for the Blog post delay.. it seems i spoke too soon. Literally the night i posted my last blog about how great DD was sleeping. She decided to change. She went from sleeping 11-7 to waking up again at night and needing nurturing... a lot of nurturing. Sometimes being up for 1.5 hrs. SO... i panicked a little. Calling Debbie to try and figure out what happened and where i went wrong in our process. Thing is... i didnt do anything wrong. I didnt change anything. BUT its hard to believe that when things go right and then change. I had to be reminded (because even i need the reassurance) that shes only 8-9 weeks old and shes doing better then my son or most 9 week olds do. She is learning amazing great habits and is able to self soothe. Its funny because i am also a Paramedic and if i need to treat a patient i can do that no problem. When it comes to treating and diagnosing myself... not so easy. I call my medic friends. looks like im in the same boat. What was wrong? it could have been gas, it could have been the 9 week growth spurt, it could have been, it could have been. In the end it doesn't matter. We kept with the program. Its all she knows. It was a long and exhausting week. We potty trained my son last week. He did amazing barely any accidents and we were taking him out for outings by day 3. He is still accident free. YAY! My DH worked full days and a lot of shifts. DD was a cranky pants from lack of sleep. At one point we were all having a good ol family cry. Yup, All 3 of us. Hey its stressful, im definitely no supermom. Sometimes the only thing that makes you feel better is a cry. And it DID! Well fast forward a week later and things are looking up. DD went back to her 11-7 sleep last night and great daytime naps. She has been smiling up a storm and is cooing. Her smile melts my heart. A big toothless smile. Her eyes light up and she stares right into my eyes. LOVE! Makes me forget my horrible week. Heres to things looking up. . . keeping in my mind that its ok.. she's 9 weeks old. Doing great and i cant expect perfection. There will be bad days that she needs me more to nurture her.. i can do that. Thank you to Debbie for reminding me of that. Just keep pushing on. ON A TOTALLY NON sleep update... Take a look at this AMAZING idea i got off of pintrest. Yes.. i love pinterst. Mason Jar salads. (google it) Right now finding time to make a proper healthy (calorie conscious) meal in little time is next to impossible so what do i do.. reach for something fast which is usually a carb. I need to be a lot more careful as we have a destination wedding in november and i have some lingering baby weight to lose. Well.. in just over an hour (DD's last nap) i made a weeks worth of SALADS. So simple and kept in the fridge. Shake, put in a bowl and eat. Salad dressing on the bottom hearty veg or meat on top, any other ingredients you have and then salad on the top. Put the lid on and keep in the fridge for 5-7 days (or eat them as i had one for lunch and one for dinner tonight) I just had to share cause its such a simple idea but awesome. Well here i am. 8 weeks into my sleep nurturing journey. Incredible how different parenting is this time around. First im not so scared of screwing everything up because ive learned that making mistakes is how you learn. Second I'm so much more rested.
DD is sleeping from 11pm-7am Almost always. She may have the odd off night where she wakes sometime around 3 and i must "nurture" her back to sleep. Most nights however, i give her her last feed and see her in the morning. She is amazing me. Ive helped sleep train many babies for over a year now but my area of knowledge was for babies 4 mos plus. A lot of what i teach i also learned first hand from doing and being in my clients shoes. Anytime we got an email for a newborn less the 16 weeks, i always passed it on not feeling comfortable since i had not done it my self. WELL... i feel comfortable now. DD is a great napper. she has her off day like all babes do. Shes not one to fall asleep ON anyone. Its so different. She likes to be put down to fall asleep on her own. Shes almost hit her goal of 11pm-8am. ONE more hour to go. Then we get to move on to her next schedule and getting her to a much earlier bedtime. Im hoping before she's 4 mos old to help her learn to sleep 9pm-8am (a later bedtime then most but its something that i have had to alter to make work with our personal family life). Im scared of moving schedules. More cause im afraid of change. I get use to my ways and then to change them takes some getting use to. Right now shes only awake for an hour and napping for 2. Doing so amazingly well. I know she will have her off days both for naps and overnight and need some help. Thats ok. Thats what mommy is here to do. help guide her along the way. I am so proud of her and myself. . . my DH too. He wishes he could do more but he knows how dependant she is on me for food right now - he is my go to for diaper changes though. We have a lot more confidence in ourselves and in her. We know that if she cries just give her a minute, she will figure it out. She almost always does and all we can do at that point is SMILE. Shes learned a lifelong skill already and shes only 8 weeks old. My daughter is an odd ball. Yes i know im mean but she is the baby that i didn't believe existed. People would tell me that their children would wake in the car or stroller when they slowed or stopped and i would secretly laugh in my head thinking "NO way... thats impossible." My son... well he never ever did that. He would ALWAYS sleep in the car or stroller. Just not in the crib or when we wanted him to sleep until we trained him of course. Well, i guess i now know first hand. I was foolishly wrong. I now have THAT baby. The one i believed never existed and i apologize for ever secretly laughing. Its tough, especially for an anal sleep training momma like me. I know that when i go out (cause i cannot be captive to my home all day) that theres a 75% chance of a bad nap. If i use my white noise machine i can SOMETIMES get a proper nap out of her - i also get asked a million times whats that noise but quite frankly i dont care as long as she sleeps. Ive tried all my tricks. NO luck. So i forge on.. going out when she wakes from a good nap and knowing that its a long shot that she will sleep on the go. i have to tell you though... it URKS me ... and i hope she changes soon. i need her to be a good on the go sleeper. DS only naps once a day and ive gotten use to being able to go out in the morning, being back for his nap (which is now ALL of our nap time) at 1pm-4pm and then back out at night. Im a very scheduled person. My iphone is filled with appointments, reminders, playdates, daycare etc. (otherwise the mommy brain forgets) my kids well... they are pretty regimented. Same meal times nap times bedtimes. It works for us. I like knowing whats next. i think they do too. Anyways. My next dilemma The swaddle. I have always believed a baby needs to be swaddled. I still do. BUT i have never met a child who fights it so fiercely as my DD. i know she s=would love nothing more in the world (besides milk) to be unswaddled. Im deathly afraid of it though. She sleeps so well (until she realizes she cant move her arms) then struggles and fights till she gives up and goes back to sleep. With my DS i kept him swaddled till after we sleep trained him. Then i had to train him again. Ive tried with one arm out and with both out and she flails around like shes doing a dance. Ive tried the woombie and the swaddle me. the swaddle me is tighter and the woombie she gets her little arms out of. I have an internal debate of what to do. I havent figured it out yet. I keep saying "ok next nap im gonna let her be free" then i chicken out and put her in it. AHHHH.... i hate change. Im so scared of it. Mainly cause i know shes doing so well that i dont want to screw it up. Sometimes she just screams because she's confined and fights harder then ive ever seen a child fight (guess i now know what people mean when they say their kids hated to be swaddled... ANOTHER lesson learned!!!!) except i refuse to give it up. (yet) When did you unsawaddle? Hello World Where has the time gone. My baby girl is going to be 7 weeks on sunday. It makes me sad. Today we had our final midwife visit. I hated saying goodbye (or see you in a 3-4 years, i hope- If its sooner... it was a big oups) But i LOVE my midwife. DD is a porker (dont tell her i said that). She was born at 7.2 and 7 weeks later is a whopping 11.8lbs. She sure does love her milk. I thought i would share with you a bit about my labour. I had a home birth complete with midwives and DoulaS. It was my second home birth and i can honestly say.... i think im addicted. Is that crazy? The whole experience was FUN. Of course a little uncomfortable but quite honestly both were some of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. I have a track record of delivering babies on Sunday AND willing them out. I was determined to have my DS on his fathers 30th birthday, which was also his due date and a sunday. Well i did just that. With DD same thing. I was aiming for a sunday. Preferably sooner then later. Sundays are family days. Both my DH's family and mine dont work on sundays. They make an event out of it and hang out at my moms house around the corner waiting. Well they got to do just that. I spoke to my mom on saturday night and she told me she felt it was going to be the next day. I laughed at her and made plans to go out for breakfast cause i felt FINE!! That was 10pm. At 1030 i got a cramp. At 1012 i got another... this continued till about 11ish. Literally a small cramp. I had an odd feeling about these "cramps" so decided to go to bed. Well at 1 when they didnt go away but werent more then a dull ache i called my midwife and my doula (who was UP NORTH at a cottage only available by boat - but i knew ahead of time and wanted her to go. i had great friends as back ups ). I was told to wait and get some rest which amazingly i did. At 430 i woke up, rolled over and HELLO!!! sheesh these things were getting a bit worse. After a bathroom break and YELLING for DH who was sleeping and clueless of anything (sorry but its true).. it was time to make the call.. a call he decided to make half asleep saying to the midwife i was "HAVING the baby" not that i was in labour causing her to have a mild heart attack lol. I called my friends and my photographer. no answer.. this was the day that somehow everyones phones were either off, silent or not close to them. SO... i called my dedicated doula who was 3 hrs away and she got in a boat to get to her car and drove to be with me. When my midwife got to the house just after 5am i was 4 cm and my cervix was thin. my bedroom was all set and ready to go. Same sheets i had delivered my son on too. Keep in mind DS was still asleep in his room, not a clue what was happening. I laboured great with DH as my Doula (lol) and he really really was an amazing coach. We laughed, he made coffee and toast and all hung out upstairs just waiting. at 730 DS woke up and came to see me. i struggled with not appearing in pain but i didnt want to scare him. I called my mom to cancel breakfast and to come and pick up my DS. She arrived just after 8 and just as my midwife checked me and discovered i was 9cm. YIKES! really... that was fast. Both my mom and dad came into my room and visit but before they both started crying. Before i had another contraction i asked them to leave QUICKLY. My mom asked my midwife how much longer and she said "ah well, i think you will have a new family member by 10am" no pressure or anything. My back up support finally arrived just 15 minutes before my doula made it in the door from up north. MY GOSH i was sooooo happy to see them. My water still hadnt broken despite trying the tub, toilet, squat stool, all 4's, on my back, you name it i tried it. the pressure was intense but i always had a break in between. Only thing was that i needed to make a decision as to if i wanted to have my water broken or not. Here is that part that i loved having them there. My brain was mush. i didnt know if i did or didn't. i wanted everything to happen on its own but knew i was so close that it could just be what got things OUT. My Doula was there to help me best decide that yes... im 9cm breaking my water wasnt evasive and most likely going to make things move a lot faster. i may have had a small bit of regression but maybe not. Decision made. They broke my water at 930am. Now comes the strange part. Everything eased off. i got a bit of a break. my midwife kept asking if i felt i needed to push. Nope i didnt. With my DS i pushed for almost 4 hrs. it was horrible. so i was all ready for that to happen again. after chit chatting about what was happening. it turned out. I JUST DIDNT WANT TO PUSH. seriously!!.. I had to convince myself to push. crazy i know. i tried a bunch of different positions but in the end, ended up flat on my back. DD was born au natural at 1020am. 2 of my best friends (one who so happened to be my doula and the other an amazing momma friend) by my side. My DH who was suppose to catch DD but i had him in a head lock that he wasnt able to escape, and my amazing midwives. We didnt know the babes gender ahead of time and all secretly wanted a girl. Tears flowed when DH finally said we had a girl and as they placed her right on my chest i just cried. Everything was PERFECT. No tearing, placenta in tact and i felt amazing. My photographer finally made it, sadly 20 min late but it didnt matter. We called the family to come over, (not telling them the gender yet) I had my shower and went downstairs to introduce my lil baby girl to her family. AND to eat lunch.. I WAS STARVING. DS was home in perfect time for his nap (YES, these are the things i think about!!!) and took a great 2.5 hr one even with all the excitement and commotion. Thats it. That was my morning of Sunday July 8th. An absolutely perfect day. That night DD was UP SOO many times of course, why wouldnt she be. It was funny because DH said to me "what are you suppose to do?" i had fed her (the lil bits she could drink of colostrum) changed her, and in the end even after going through it before my answer was "i dont know" he laughed at me and said "what do you mean? You teach babies how to sleep." Ummmm yes... but shes less then 24hrs old... by day 4 when my milk came in, My DD's sleep nurturing program began and thats where i am today. Still guiding her in the right path. Its not a perfect path by any means. Its quite bumpy with a lot of forks in the road. BUT its a lot smoother then the first time i attempted it without a road map. Man.... well. after our Vacay, my hubby had to do a stretch of nights. 6 in a row. Going to work for 5 and coming home at 2am. It was great to have his help in the day but boy oh boy i was craving some night time help. Well.... by the end of the week.. it was amazing the routine i carved out for myself. It EVEN involved a run on the treadmill for me. My DS is an ENERGETIC kid. Sometimes the only way to keep him still is to go for a walk. So that became our after nap part of the day. Also helped me keep DD up before her next feed and sleep. My dilemma has always been how to feed my DD and calm her down with my son running around and the tv on. WELL.. i figured it out. My son is a techno junkie. LOVES the iPad and iPhone (like all kids now a days). Well thats now become a "treat". So at feed time i tell him "come on buddy. Its time for mommy to feed the baby, you get to play on the iPad." he screams "yay" and runs up to his room. Sits nicely in his chair and is set. I can then feed DD quietly in her room (watching him on the baby monitor). I hate that I'm relying on technology, but at this point.. it works. Then he gets his mommy one on one time. Right into the bath. Once DS is in bed, its a quick run and time to wake DD up for her bath and feed. Finally all said and done its 11pm.... would love to watch some tv but I'm pooped. Time for bed.... or sitting in bed, blogging, surfing or FB'ing. Sometimes i feel like FB is my window to realizing theres things other then just kids out there. Right now, thats all my life is from morning wake up at 7am to bedtime at 11 (with a good family nap from 1-3 - that includes me no matte what... laundry can wait). I wouldn't trade it for the world and one day i'll miss it I'm sure. in the meantime. its fun to read about others adventures and share my own. What will my next blog post be..... I'm not sure yet... but I'm sure it will be interesting (to me at least) DD playing nicely... me watching from the monitor. Well... we did it. Our first family vacation to a cottage. Yup. a 2.5 hr drive with a 1.5 yr. old and 1 month old. In debating if we were going to go I thought many times, "I'm crazy" but in the same thought if i didn't go i'd regret it. So .. i packed up the car while DH was at work, charged the iPad and loaded it with movies and in the morning off we went. We need a bigger car. Poor dog was cramped and we had majority of the stuff on the roof of my small SUV. My biggest fear was screwing up DD's sleep. Guess we were going to find out. We arrived with great weather. I set up both kids rooms. Got a lil ghetto and rigged up a blackout blind for DD's room. for DS's I have a GroBlind. Purchasing another... too expensive. AMAZING PRODUCT THOUGH! Take a look at my creativity. We arrived around lunch and had everyone down for a nap including us and hit the beach when they woke. Hey this wasn't that bad. No hard transition. Awesome. Bath time/bedtime. Both kids in bed and we weren't far behind. Well DD woke up at 5 am. a 6hr stretch. I was ecstatic.... AND THEN... it started. I went to nurse her. She wouldn't latch. I moved to the couch, I tried different holds. NOTHING!!! she wouldn't eat. DH woke to see if he could help, or at least be supportive which i appreciated. After an hour of trying. I gave her her soother and she went to sleep. Alright then, at 730am... I was woken by my DS. DD was still sleeping. WHAT!!!! My boobs were about to pop. The pain was intense, it had been 8.5hrs since she ate. I woke her up thinking she had to be hungry now... NOPE! Again, she wouldn't latch. Didn't want anything to do with me. After another hour, I placed her down and she slept. I had to wake her again at her next scheduled feed. Keep in mind. I'm up north with a baby who always nursed, SO WHY would i think to bring a bottle or pump. I was in agony. My JUMBOOBS were leaking everywhere. So.. again getting creative I grabbed a new bottle of water, dumped out the water and started hand expressing (cant let perfectly good milk go down the drain - ALL 8 oz of it!). For her 3rd scheduled feed of the day, again she wouldn't eat. She was so content though that it was freaking me out. Happy, cooing, just not eating. I was texting Debbie all day. I called my midwife, she said some babies go days and to call her back if she wouldn't eat for 24 hrs. Just as debbie had said, I was to watch for wet diapers. I called the lactation consultant at Joe brant to see if my supply was in jeopardy. They told me i had to feed my baby and to either go get formula or to come home as the change in atmosphere had to be affecting her... WHAT!! seriously, absolutely not. My lil lamb was going to have to adapt. Worst case we would be going home the next morning. I could cup feed if needed. FINALLY. After 17 hrs, like nothing phased her. She latched and nursed. SHEESH!!. My whole day, all I did was worry and be consumed with what was going on. What did i eat? Was she constipated? Is it really the new surroundings? She must be fine. A hungry baby wouldn't be as content or sleep would they? Her weight wasn't my concern. She had gained 3 lb in her 1 mo of life. Born at 7.2 she currently weighs 10.2. After she ate she went down for a nap again no problem and had her normal bedtime feed. Crisis averted. She woke at her normal 4am and 7am that night. But alas... our getaway was only one full day. We had to pack up and come home. All in all, it was a great trip. We had lots of fun on the beach playing in the sand, attempting and failing at flying a kite and indoors building table forts and playing cars with DS when it rained. Back home now. Im worried that my supply may be effected. So i'll be pumping after a few feeds for the next week or so. Drinking my mothers milk tea and taking my fenugreek. She striked on me once before.. it was 3 weeks ago. Same thing. No apparent reason. GREAT!! my 1 month old daughter has started PMS'ing early. She's gonna keep me on my toes. Not that my DS allows me to sit anyway. Well back to reality. Home again and DH at work for the night. All in all a great trip and STRIKE aside I'm very glad we went. Hi everyone, my name is Sabrina. Debbie approached me (cause i said i was bored) and asked what i thought on doing a blog about my sleep nurturing journey with my DD. I had full intent... BUT then my son got busy and soaked up all my time. I've now got some time back and am excited to document our progress and let you know how our journey is going. I've seen both sides of the spectrum. A living breathing sleep training "poster child". Its not been flawless. Debbie has gotten many a text messages. But a big difference from my first child.
Firstly, if you don't know me I'll give you some background on who i am and how i came to be in this sitution. I've been a paramedic for the city of Hamilton since 2002. In 2007 I got married to my DH and in in 2010 we found out we were expecting. Over joyed of course and so excited. My DS arrived right on his due date, which was also his daddy's 30th birthday (ya try to top that gift every year). Of course the first month we dealt with the sleep deprivation and breast feeding issues fine because, Hey, It must be normal right? I finally mastered the painful breast feeding after 10 weeks, but how to get my son to sleep or what to do was beyond me. I read book after book. The one I thought was working was the baby whisperer. It did work pretty good until 2.5-3 mos. Then, WHAM. Exhaustion took over. Not only for me, but for my DS as well. I was on the internet searching for answers. Joining forums, wanting someone to tell me what i was doing wrong. I would sit in his room and hold him through cycles of sleep, i shushed, patted, swaddled, unswaddled, held through the jolts and just watched him like a hawk to see if i could notice a pattern. I never had any luck. I felt doomed and i was frustrated. In feb, when my DS was 4.5 mos old, we went on a weekend getaway with my best friend and her boyfriend. All my DH and i did the whole time was try to get our son to nap or sleep more then an hour a night or more then 20-45 min in the day. I broke down to my friend and admitted I hated my days, I hated being a mom. I sucked at it. My DS didn't even sleep. All I did was think about the next nap or overnight and how little sleep I was going to have to function on. She reminded me that I had seen something about a "Sleep Consultant" on the news. I googled it right away and found Precious Moments Babeez. So, I emailed : (yes i saved the emails, it reminds me of how far he has come) " Hi Debbie. Just wondering about taking a sleep class or setting up a consult. How much do you charge for help overnight? Or even advice. Me and my husband are lost. DS is 4 months and has crappy naps. (45 min. If that). Wakes 4-5 times at night. Cannot self soothe. I'm crying writing this. I don't know how to help him. Or what I'm doing wrong. I don't enjoy being a mom, thats not a good feeling. Please help us. Hope to hear from you soon. Sabrina" Debbie answered me right back and said to hang in and she could help. I'll never forget. She said " It's an easy problem to fix." I thought this lady is crazy. If it's so easy why on earth isn't my kid sleeping. We did out consult and of course when I found out my son had to "cry" a bit I cried. Like every new mom thinks. "it's not good for him", "he's going to think I abandoned him", "hes gonna be hungy". She assured me that wasn't the case and she would guide me through. That the schedule and routine she was going to teach me drastically helps. Well. Long story short. She did help me, and by night 2 my DS slept from 10pm to 630am straight. SERIOUSLY!! That's it... Within 2 weeks my DS was napping 3x a day and 11 hrs overnight. I started getting caught up on sleep and LOVING my time with my DS and my new time to myself. An amazing transformation. No guesswork. I had all this free time on my hands now that I looked into becoming a doula. My best friend and I joined Cappa and took the postpartum and labour doula classes. When I finished I called Debbie and joined her team. Eventually becoming a sleep trainer under her guidance, an incredible honour. My first training (i actually became good friends with her through the training) was amazing. As I started helping others, I was in awe. Parents were as happy as I was with their children's progress. It really wasn't a fluke. It works. I also realized just how many people felt the way i did. i could completely relate to everyones story. I felt back in their shoes in every training. Difference was, i had confidence in their kids. My clients soon did too. I returned to work in November of 2011 and found out we were going to be blessed again with another lil bundle. This time. I was ready for it. My son was 13 mos at the time. Still sleeping great (that never changed) but I felt like I knew the "do's & don'ts" to get my new babe on track. (if not. I had Debbie). In July 2012 my DD was born at home, in the care of midwives and my best friend, my doula. Let just say. What a difference the second time. Breastfeeding was something i really paid attention to to NOT get into the same troubles i did with my son. My DD had 24 hrs to adjust to life outside. Then, the sleep nurturing began (keep in mind this is NURTURING good habits, not getting into trouble with the bad ie rocking to sleep, co-sleeping, etc) On night 3 she slept from 10pm-4am, 430am - 7am. She kept that up with the odd night of maybe 2 wake ups. Everyone would always say.." oh you must be so tired" actually. No. I'm not. I'm tired from chasing my now 22 mo old. But we all have family nap time (a huge key factor). We quickly fell into a great routine and have kept it up with ease. It's taken me a month to get around to blogging my sleep nurturing journey. But I'm ready to give it a go. I've gone from one extreme to another. From a very inexperienced new mom, to sleep training my DS at 4.5 mos and helping maintain his sleep through his growth and travel. Becoming a sleep trainer, getting pregnant, having a new baby and implementing all that I have learned. IT'S BEEN AMAZING but still has its struggles. Not only with my DD but with having 2 children. I hope you want to join me on my blogging adventure. As I'm sure it won't be a perfect sleep journey. But join me and let's see how it goes. |
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