bethysmalls

Yesterday’s post was not intended to be all about tragedy. I originally thought I could mention it and go on to other things (which I’ll get to momentarily) but by the time I’d said most of what I wanted to say (I could have said much more) the post was already so long that I knew I wouldn’t read to the end. And really, that was the kind of thing that deserves its own post.

But TODAY! Today is a new day! And I can tell you what I’ve actually been busy with for so long. You might remember how my darling baby boy was sleeping for incredible chunks of time at night. Well he’s doing that. Again. Because he stopped for a while and his zero wakings turned into 2 (two) a night and since he was all out of wack anyway, I decided to move him to his own room for sleeping.

It’s not as simple as that, however. I came across an article on babycenter.com that gave ‘tips’ on getting your baby to go to sleep! Oh tips are so fun and easy! They are totally not intended to make me question every single parenting decision about naps and sleeping I had made up to that point! They’re just tips! Well I started freaking out. That lead to me finding my Happiest Baby on the Block book to find justification for the way I’ve been doing things but that made me even more flustered. I can’t even remember the exact ‘tips!’ that were getting me so worked up at the moment and I just tried to find the email and came across some other stuff and… whatever. I should just stop reading.

Long story short, after being reassured by my wonderful husband that I’ve been doing a splendid job at parenting thus far, I ignored most of what I read and the next day decided it was time to move to his own room. I was worried about this for a few reasons. 1) his room has a skylight that does not have a shade and 2) we had a routine with his pack n’ play bassinet that involved rocking it until he got a little doze-y. What were we going to do to get him to sleep? Well I must be the biggest moron on the planet because hello, you can pick those things, you know, ‘babies’ up and rock them in your arms. They’re like totally mobile. And one upside to all the crap I’d been reading is that I came across some information that told me that having the room light, ie sans blinds, is fine for day time naps because it lets the baby know it’s okay to wake up when they, well, wake up. (My approach to parenting literature is I read everything I can find and whatever makes sense to me, I use… after I freak out about it first)

So last Friday, I bundled up the baby and laid him down in HIS crib in HIS room, put the bink in his mouth, kissed him on the head and walked out of the room. My plan was to go back in if he fussed but he, like, didn’t. He went to sleep. And then that night, we put him down and turned the light off and he DID IT AGAIN! When he slept in our room, we’d been leaving my bedside lamp on when he went down for the night and left it on until we went to sleep. Turns out that was probably waking him up, go figure. So we moved all his gear into his room. Noise machine (set to steam train), Green froggy humidifier and  his perspective frog. All relocated to his pad.

Oh hai! Dis mai crib.

And THEN! on Tuesday! He rolled over. Totally by accident but still freaking kick-ass.

i wuz jus on mah bellay!

You’re right, he is very impressive.

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