It has been a while since I have posted anything. This has many reasons. One of them was that my son was not sleeping in his crib and needed to be carried around or held while he was sleeping. So I did not get round to anything all I could do was walk, stand and maybe if I was lucky sit on the couch, I lost quite a lot of weight though. Worst diet ever: have a baby get him into a bad sleeping habit and never have time to eat or sit :). And when he was awake I wanted to spend time with him or I had to do some of the housework. So now you must be thinking? Well if she is writing now she must have got her baby to sleep in his crib. Yes I have but we are still in the training phase. You can not imagine how much research I did before I started sleep training him. I was hoping for an easy fix so I kept on looking I thought someone in his world must have found some magic trick. Guess what? I NEVER FOUND IT but I am still hopeful and looking.
I would not describe myself as a very patient person but I realise that I have to develop patience with a child and I have become much better. But when you are looking for training solutions you have the choice between ones that feel like they take forever or the ones that tell you to let your baby cry. I can't do that, I can not listen to him cry for longer then a minute. So I started with the "Picking- up, Lying- him- down" training which means that you put him down in his crib and when he starts crying you pick him up again and so on. I read that one woman had to pick up her child 140 times before he slept. Imagine 140 times? When I heard that I just wanted to take a nap myself. But I tried it, after 1 1/2 hours I was ready to give up and let my child sleep on me for the rest of his life. I'm not kidding! You feel like you want to kill somebody after that. AND he wasn't even asleep after 1 1/2 hours!
I did give up and a week later I started again because I knew ultimately that I need to do it for him and for myself. But in the end I did it my own way. I'm not sure if it is the right way but it is the way that I chose. So I did pick him up and put him down again but I rocked the crib and I put on the extractor fan in the kitchen, as white noise calms him down. This we did for a week. This week I am fazing out the noise and next week I am fazing out the rocking. And once I get him into a routine of that I am going to get him to sleep in his big crib in his own room.I have a lot of fazing out to do I know! And lets hope his teething will not get into the way of that. Yes my son has decided that he needs his teeth already. At the moment thank god they are not bothering them but the horror stories you read on the internet do not sound encouraging.Can not believe that he is teething already. Always when he does something new I see him going off to university. He is growing up so quickly. But back to sleeping. One step at a time.
I am sure you know this feeling of relieve when your baby is finally asleep and you think "now I can do the washing and start cooking and tidy up but first I will check if someone wrote to me on facebook or maybe I got that E-Mail I have been waiting for" and half an hour later you still are sitting on the couch in front of your laptop either on facebook, pinterest or looking up what your child should be doing at his age. Never good idea to do that. Always ends with fear, guilt and stress. And when you finally get up to do all the things that are written on your "DO TO LIST" you hear the baby waking up! "WHAAT? why did he only sleep for 30 minutes? WHY GOD WHY?"In his next nap I will need to research that and I will let you know what I find out ;)
