Category: sleep

getting him to nap

8:30 a.m. He yawns. Place him in crib with rolled towels on either side as bolsters to hold him on his side. Pacifier in mouth. Lovey (small square fuzzy blanket with stuffie dog-head in center) under one arm. Goodbye Mr.…

back on track

For those of you following my minute-by-minute reports on Jonah’s sleep patterns, that one day was more of an aberration. He’s back on track (who is driving this train?) with his usual sleep and general nap times, though none of…

sleeeeeep and crying

The saga continues… He was on an every three hours schedule last night. I think. Have I mentioned before that nearly every mom in my moms group is doing “cry it out”? They’re all emailing the yahoo group about it.…

the evolution of cocktail conversation

It wasn’t so long ago that I was wildly happy to hold forth on the many virtues, natures, shades, moods, of poo. Now, if you hadn’t already noticed, my favorite topic is sleep. Deep sleep, shallow sleep, rolling sleep, stationary…

what goes up…

It’s 5:42 a.m. Should I be blogging now? Should Scott be building playsets? Should Jonah be swinging in his swing and chastising the circling jungle creatures overhead? No / I guess — if he wants to / According to the…

bliss days

Three good days slid by with me not blogging about them. There were naps, maybe not perfect, but naps. There was a night in the middle when he woke up seemingly every hour, but that wasn’t last night, so it’s…

shhhhhh… he’s napping

Well, the let’s sit up and nurse in the night experiment revealed that in fact, yes, I get more sleep if I don’t do that. Nap nursing, here I come back. Not only can the boy nurse on one boob…