Sleep Update

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As promised, a new post!

As an update after 2 days of sleep training (Monday and Tuesday) little Avie lady is doing ok. We have had some moderate success. Monday, we took a “nap” in the morning in my bed. She didn’t really fall asleep on her own, but I got some much needed sleep. Then we got up and ate, and played, and I “caught the wave,” so to speak, of her sleep, and put her down for a nap at just the right time! I put her in her bed, drowsy, but still slightly awake and not a peep…

Sleepy, Sleepy Baby

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Side note – I broke my promise already, I didn’t post last Wednesday or Friday. I have several excellent excuses, like Sharathon, being super busy, and my mom being in town, but I still didn’t post. Maybe this week will be better? On to the main attraction:

Sleep is a hard thing for a Bayer… at least for our littlest Bayer. She’s a sleepy, sleepy little girl, but she just won’t take a nap. She sleeps pretty well at night, but to take a nap is like torture to her. She’ll fall asleep for 10 minutes while you hold her, but go to put her in her bed and the eye lids fly open as though to say…

This Too Shall Pass

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I am oscillating between ecstatic and mournful over this fact. Ecstatic because I can’t wait for this little one to finally, consistently sleep “through the night” (whatever that means). Ecstatic because she is starting to smile…on very rare occasions and usually for daddy. She’s also starting to coo. Ecstatic because that means she might start laughing soon…or holding her head up all the time. Enjoying tummy time (rather than screaming with frustration), and all those other beautiful milestones.

I swear, sometimes when she’s asleep I can see what she will look like at age 6…

Things I Thought I Knew

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People like to give you advice when you’re pregnant. There are a lot of things people warn you about… and you think you know, but that doesn’t mean that you KNOW them. There’s a difference between acknowledging a fact and experiential knowledge. Here are a few of them:

Sleep — They tell you that you will lose sleep, but until you have gone several weeks with only 3 consecutive hours of sleep, you can’t really understand what this means…