Wednesday, I decided to take the day off from reading baby books. Some of them were really stressing me out. I was reading one of the _Baby Whisperer_ books just for fun the other day, but ended up feeling like Lucy is doing everything wrong because I can’t just shush-pat her to sleep in her crib; she needs to be bounced or jiggled or held to be able to nod off. So, Wednesday I experimented with just following my instincts.<\/p>\n
And as you objective observers could probably guess, it worked really well! Lucy took two naps in her crib (during which Mama got to nap too, hooray!), and she slept in the sling for a cycle also. She missed at least one nap cycle, but she really didn’t look tired, and she slept well after she ate the next time. Our terrific friend Deborah came over last night to hold her while Jon and I slept, and then Lucy slept great after her 11:30 pm and 4:00 am feedings.<\/p>\n
(Of course, Thursday was a different story, as Lucy had a couple of naps where she woke up every twenty minutes. Needless to say we are still learning about each other.)<\/p>\n
I still want to read baby books, mostly to get more information and validate what I’m doing. But I get so nervous that I’m going to do something now that will instill a “bad habit” in Lucy and I’ll wake up one day with a two-year-old who doesn’t know how to put herself to sleep. But it sounds like we have some time before we need to worry about it. I certaintly wasn’t worried about her sleeping ability when she was still in the womb — so what’s another two or three months? She is learning a lot of other stuff these days, like how to eat and breathe and poop. So, I’ll try to not stress about it when Lucy needs a little jiggle to go to sleep. I am so thankful that she is able to sleep as well as she does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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