SAK, I would need an IV of coffee to live your life. I'm glad last night was a little better for F.
Really though, I may lack a little sleep, but who around here doesn't? Most of you guys are far more amazing than I am. I don't homeschool. I don't have a special needs kid. I don't have a husband who is acting like a total douche-canoe. I'm not trying to TTC under extremely stressful circumstances. .i'm not a military wife. I'm not solo parenting. I'm not moving across the country or across the globe. Not to get all touchy-feely, but you guys are total rock stars. I aspire to be like many of you.
I wrote this exactly on my blog a couple months ago. We're still in the same situation. M sleeps fine most of the night in MMSS in his crib, which is side carred. He wakes up every two hours though. And usually around 3-4 he won't go back to sleep until I put him in bed with me.
I haven't figured it out yet, but I feel like I might get more sleep when I just let him sleep/nurse all night because then I don't have to be awake while he eats and long enough after so that he is in a deep enough sleep to lay him back down. It's exhausting. Our pedi pushed me pretty hard to sleep train him at our appt last week,I just can't do CIO. As soon as we are both not sick we might have J start handling every other wake up. I don't know what else to do.
I hope you'll share what works (and what doesn't). I hope you get your bed back soon.
Pedis that push a particular parenting philosophy piss me off. If CIO isn't for you than your pedi should leave it alone and move on. I had this issue when I had a food question for an on-call pedi and the doctor was anti-BLW. Our regular pedi is super careful to mention things if I have questions, but doesn't push any specific philosophy.
She usually is totally on board with whatever we want to do and encourages co-sleeping/bed-sharing, extended breastfeeding, etc. She just kept throwing out ideas about to do it and kept telling me that he is very capable of sleeping in longer than 2 hour stretches. Then, she told me that if I wasn't ready to let her know and she'd drop it. So I did and she did. It definitely threw me off that she suggested it though.
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