“It’s easy to judge another’s parenting, but it’s hard to be a parent, especially in the middle of the night, when your convictions fall prey to your heart.”
– http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/crying-it-out/
“It’s easy to judge another’s parenting, but it’s hard to be a parent, especially in the middle of the night, when your convictions fall prey to your heart.”
– http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/crying-it-out/
What was I thinking, being so busy before having a baby? Criminy. At least things have gotten a little more normal. Michael is now four months old (and weighing in at 11 pounds, 4 ounces — not quite on the charts, but nearly there!), so we’re sleep training. So to speak. Basically, I put him to bed between 7:30 and 8 p.m. every night. Some nights, like last night after his bath, he goes right to sleep and doesn’t wake up at all for a good five, six hour stretch. Night before last, though, he fought sleep tooth and nail and didn’t actually go down until at least 9:45.
At any rate, at this stage, having a couple “free” hours from 8 to about 10 p.m. on the weekdays (after washing baby bottles and cooking and eating dinner) I’m finally getting back to stuff that have frankly gone undone since I’ve gone back to work.
So what’s fallen by the wayside? Oh, mommies, you know.
At least I’m getting more, dependable sleep now, with Michael snoozing in longer stretches. I do kind of wish that he wasn’t so sleepy after going to daycare so I could play with him a little longer, but I suppose there’s time for that later.