Author: calm mama

a historic day (night?)

Last night, he slept 11 hours straight. No waking. Not a peep. I’m in shock. 6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. I was grinning like an idiot during his entire morning feeding. Scott passed the doorway of the nursery, saw my…

6 things jonah could teach the world about being

I’m way overdue in responding to Laura’s meme tag. Been thinking about it a lot, if that counts. This could also be titled, 6 things I love about Jonah, but I realized that if the world would take his lead…

i’m sorry, it varied

I know I said I wouldn’t. But if I don’t talk about it, I don’t have anything to talk about. And anyway, the rule I set up was that unless his, you know, VARIED, from the previous two posts, I…

sleep, coda

It’s not over until the skinny baby sleeps. I thought I could get away with a nice sum-up and move on. But then, something happened that was different and I just had to write about sleep one more time, ONE…

sleep, the conclusion?

I haven’t used up my year of discussing sleep, but I think we’ve hit enough of a pattern over the last few days that I can sum up. As many moms have reported — thank you for all of your…

hey.

I’m guesting over at hilarites ensue today. Stop by and say hi to me and the awesome Liz — who guested here not so long ago — and her new baby girl Clara.

ugh.

So, tell me when this gets better. In my apparent ongoing efforts to live-blog sleep training, an update. Not only is this difficult, it’s embarrassing. Embarrassing to admit that I let my baby cry, because part of me thinks that…

wow.

Last night, he slept for eight hours. In a row. Nursed, went back to sleep for another three hours. Amazing. His morning naps are clocking in at closer to two hours lately. Our evenings seem so much calmer and more…