yes, I know its more like 5.5 again… what can I say? Life gets away from me and writing a blog post is further down on my list of priorities.
Since I don’t work mornings, I’ve been reallyyyy bad about making myself get up at a decent hour in the mornings and establishing a morning routine for Cristopher and I. To add on to that, Cristopher hasn’t been falling asleep until midnight every night due to (again) lack of routine..It’s a vicious cycle and one that I’m now trying to get out of. Recently he’s been waking up 2-3 times a night between the hours of 12 and 7am (no REM sleep for mom 😦 )
I was talking to a new-mom friend who said her 6mo old has finally started sleeping from 630pm tip 530am with only waking up once around 2 to eat. I WANT THAT. She suggested to me the book she had used to help her structure her nights and mornings. Ideally I’d love for him to go to sleep around 730-8pm and wake up around 7am, but that means I’ll have to get up at 7am every morning. kill me. — but honestly, I’d rather be killed by waking up early than a baby who won’t sleep through the night.
SO I started trying all this two nights ago. The first night he screamed bloody murder every time his face touched his sheets for a good, solid hour. I would lay him down, try to soothe him, sing to him, talk to him, pat his back, rub his head, etc…. nothing. just screaming. After over an hour of that, I brought him in bed with me to sleep (I’m so weak, I know) and he still screamed the. whole. night. The next day, I went to a MUCH needed hot yoga class while a friend watched Cristopher (of course, he didn’t cry once while there. yay! but what a stinker). He fell asleep on the ride home afterwards and once I got home I took him out of his car seat to lay him in his bed and he was immediately WIDE AWAKE AND SCREAMING. how/WHY does he do that?! ah. It took me another hour to get him to fall asleep but once he did he (and I) slept for almost 2 hours. and they were glorious. I went to work that night and I was nervous for Cristian to put him to bed because I told him he needed to go down around 8 instead of letting him stay awake until I got home around 10:30, and he hates hearing him scream so I didn’t know if he’d “stay strong” so to speak in putting him to bed. I got a text around 9:30 saying he was asleep after not toooo much fussing and crying! YAY. and he was still asleep when I got home at 11, and still asleep when we started getting ready for bed around 1:30. He woke up around 2, was pretty fussy so I fed him and brought him to lay down next to me. Woke up again at 3:30 and I put him back in his bed where he stayed asleep until 7am!
AH. You probably didn’t want to hear a whole play-by-play of my last 2 days, but I was just so happy. It was such a good nights sleep for me even though I woke up twice. and I’m sure while we’re in Gatlinburg this week (vacation, woooo), his/our schedule will get a little messed up, but hopefully once we get back it’ll start to get better again.
Anyways, here’s his 5 month picture! plus a couple other recent ones. He’s getting so big and starting to sit up on his own now. uh-dorable.
A few weekends ago we went hiking off the Natchez Trace. It was such beautiful weather and so much fun! We were hiking for about an hour and on our way back somebody (not a boy) got us lost and we didn’t end up getting back to the car for another hour haha… oops! and then Monday was Cristopher’s first time going swimming! I want to start getting him used to the pool ASAP and learning to swim. He’s gonna be a little fish like his mom. The water was still a little cold, but he got his legs under and was splashing a little big 🙂
Cordova Life 