Since I've not posted in a few days I will catch you up on the goings on of the Palmer Household. Mostly we've spent the last few days and nights struggling for good restful sleep. I obviously spoke way to soon about Jack learning the ropes of night time sleep. I've been trying hard for a couple of weeks now to stay to a good routine throughout the day of sleep, eat, play and then a regular routine at night..just like everyone says your supposed to do, still the kid just did not want to sleep in his own room for more than an hour or two. That hour or two being divided up in like 15 min intervals of course. I would go back and forth from the living room or our bedroom to cribside and just stand there. For some reason that's just what he needed to sleep was me standing next to his crib, never had to talk to him, touch and sometimes he wouldn't even be looking at me; he just knew I was there. After waking up one night with my face stuck to the crib rail I decided that enough was enough. I sat down and thought as hard as a person can at 3 AM with approx 45 minutes of sleep, " what does he need to fall asleep and stay that way without me??" We had been playing the special lullaby music since he was born and it was just not working out-I think some of the sharp notes were actually waking him up. Then we got a sound machine that plays heartbeat tones and that just creeped me out in the middle of the night and didn't do much to soothe him either. Finally I realized the difference between our room and his room is the voices from the tv, I can't sleep without the tv on. So while he's fussing and wondering where I am and what I was thinking for leaving his side, I fumbled over to the radio and turned on some good ole country music. Magic I'm telling you...he slept the best he has probably in weeks and best thing of all I got to actually lay in my own bed and not get up till he was actually hungry. He was all smiles and hardly even got fussy today!! By the way in the past week he's been to not just one public place but 5-to include walking through the mall with everyone and their brother. Everyone say "Good job Sammo for relaxing a bit!! YEY!"
I have more to post about, but I have to go right now because the silly teenage realty show I'm addicted to just came on and I can't miss it!!!
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Wait, which silly teenage reality show you're addicted to, there are so many...Great job to SamWise, though, what progress!:)
Tell Sammy I'm proud of him! However, I don't know about you, teaching your tiny impressionable child not to be able to sleep without some racket going on!! And just think about what his little subconscious mind is gonna pick up from some of those country songs. He could be cheating, lying and drinking by the time he's 3 if you don't watch it! So what silly girls are you watching now? I kinda miss watching those dumb ones with you.
Those are the ones- I was watching The Hills on MTV with the dumb blondes. There is a possiblity that he is going to be some alcoholic pervert from the exposure but I figure that my siblings and I survived it..he will too. Besides it's better than singing about just him and his hand...
Hang in there, Jack will start sleeping when he is about 13. Then he will sleep like a baby no matter what else is happening in the house.
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