I believe in my last post, which I wrote weeks ago it feels like, I said something along the lines
of "we're figuring things out." Yeah, that's not true. We've had some rough nights and have discovered that our boy Jackson has quite a set of lungs when he gets upset. We're working on getting him on a regular schedule. Hopefully that will return our sanity and give Jackson a routine to get used to.
But he is super sweet and we are loving getting to know him more each day. A
quick shout out to Baby Moss and Delivering Dunaway; I haven't noticed any complaining on your blogs. Any tips for us since Jackson, Ellie and Blakely are all about the same age?
Nana, my 91 year old grandmother, made the trip to Dalton this past week to visit her great grandson. It was so great to spend time with her. She was so thrilled to see him and had a smile on her face the whole time. Jackson loves Nana Clements!
Leigh Ann came over on Thursday too so it was good to see Aunt Leigh Ann and her pups, Chili and Baby.
If you parents out there have any words of wisdom or stories about acclimating your babies to a schedule, please post a comment!
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If it makes you guys feel any better, I can remember thinking "WHY did we decide to do this???" right after David was born... and he was sleeping through the night by 8 weeks! It will improve... Jackson will get it. I know reading a book isn't what you have time for right now, but The Baby Whisperer really helped me with D. We were able to get on a rotation and then Trey and I could split up some of the late night duties. I hope "baby boot camp" improves for you guys... Jackson sure is a cutie!
Ellie wears the pants in our house. I kind of let her run the show. Her "fussy" time is 10-12 at night, and we have started putting her in her crib during that time. During this time, we are taking turns putting her paci back in her mouth after she spits it out. It is a long process to get her down for the night. I wish I had some words of wisdom for you.......I need to get Ellie on a better schedule too. Especially since I return to work in 3 1/2 weeks! If we find something that works, I will pass along the info.
thanks for the feedback, Dani and Susan. I think that Ellie and Jackson are on the same schedules, Susan. Jackson never seems to want to sleep between 10-12. He has slept for 5 consecutive hour stretches the past few nights so that has been a nice reward. Though, he loves to wake up around 5, which is about 30 minutes before I get up and I hate that limbo time where you don't have enough time to go back to sleep. See, he's already finding ways to pester dear old dad!
Curtis, you guys are doing great. It will get better. I believe every baby is different, so I am not sure anything that worked for us would work for you too. However, I have some books around here somewhere that I will find and bring to you (all of which probably offer conflicting direction on what you "should" do). LOL. We really focused on getting Mia to self sooth so she wouldn't cry every time she woke up and we weren't right there. I can't remember how we did it. We were (and still are) victims of the pacifier. She might not need me there, but she better have a pacifier!
First, I want to say Congratulations! You are so blessed to have a big healthy baby. I know I thought that having the baby was the hard part and then we would go home and live happily ever after….haha! We had all kind of issues with our Jackson that I will not go into here, but because of this I have a huge heart for moms who want to get their baby on a routine. Baby Wise books helped me tremendously - also the Happiest Baby on the Block dvd helped us. I did not follow the Baby Wise book to the extreme but after 3 or 4 weeks I tried my best to feed Jackson at 7 am, 10 am, 1 pm, 4 pm, 7 pm, and 10 pm. Then I would try to get him to sleep from 11pm to almost 7 pm the next day. The hardest was keeping him awake to eat (I would have to sometimes strip him down to just a diaper to keep him awake). The key was not offering him food unless it had been 2 and half hours from the start of the last feeding. Otherwise, he would be snacking all day and never full.
Of course, I never let him cry more than 10 or 15 minutes, but if it had been less than 2 and half hours from the beginning of the last feeding I would try to swaddle him, give him a passi, put him in the swing, or basically try everything before feeding him. I did have Jackson sleeping through the night by 6 weeks but it was completely a miracle. I supplement 2-4 ozs of formula at the last night feeding (I used similac senisitive formula and platex drop in bottles), and shortly after that I stopped breast feeding all together. If you have any questions feel free to email me any time at emilywallace80@hotmail.com and you can also go to my blog at emilyewallace@blogspot and click Jackson’s schedule on the labels side. It sounds like yall are doing great (every baby is so different) and I am so glad I found your blog through Alyssa’s blog!
As much as this goes against Dr Spock's teachings-put him in the bed with you. He'll sleep great with warm mommy and daddy's heartbeats and smell surrounding him. I never slept well with Abbey in her crib by herself anyway-I may be a little co-dependent!
Abbey is 11 years old and does still like to sleep with me of course-which may be a bad thing for some people but some of our best conversations are had at bedtime with the lights out.
My main oratoricle offering-cherish every minute-smelly diapers, the smell of baby lotion, spit up, wipes available in every room, projectile vomit, all of those cute clothes, every new facial expression as they happen so often with babies-each of those little things is so special and wonderful and pass by way too fast! Congrats you 2, he is a cutie!
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