{"id":491,"date":"2006-09-07T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/sleep-prevention\/"},"modified":"2006-09-09T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T16:55:06","slug":"sleep-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/sleep-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems pretty typical to spend a lot of energy helping your baby to fall asleep, but what about trying to keep them awake? I’ve been finding myself in this position a lot lately, and I keep wondering if I’m torturing the poor girl. <\/p>\n

There is a reason I try to keep Lucy awake: if she takes a tiny nap, then she later has a hard time falling asleep for her bigger nap. Since I’ve added a pre-nap feeding to her day (to keep up milk production and boost her calories), she has been happily eating all that she wants, but also sometimes indulging in a snooze at the same time — cozy, but not very good eating _or_ sleeping. So I find myself jiggling, poking, coughing, and saying, “Hey baby, no sleeping!” Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes we have a nap rebellion afterwards.<\/p>\n

\"Pucker<\/p>\n

The weirdest experience in this category occurred a couple of weeks ago, when I was trying to prevent Lucy from falling asleep in the car. We had just left a baby shower for Janice & Matt, and Lucy was due for a serious nap in just a half hour. I knew that if she fell asleep in the fifteen-minute car ride home, she wouldn’t get anything like her full forty winks. So, I got in the back seat with her (don’t worry: Jon was driving), and I kept poking her all the way home. There was a certain amount of hollering from Lucy (and speeding from Jon), but we did get home awake and then successfully settled in for a good long nap. <\/p>\n

Every time I work to keep her awake, I wonder if I’m doing the right thing. But seeing her little sleep-refreshed face after a big nap reminds me that this girl really does like a good, long snooze. Don’t we all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems pretty typical to spend a lot of energy helping your baby to fall asleep, but what about trying to keep them awake? I’ve been finding myself in this position a lot lately, and I keep wondering if I’m torturing the poor girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}