We are still struggling to get Nate to sleep in his bed. I feel like a broken record but all I want is a solid week of uninterrupted sleep and maybe I can feel slightly normal again. I have become accustomed to this new lifestyle but I am not happy with it. The longer it goes on the older I feel and I fear that I will never have another child because we cannot fit another one in our too small Queen sized bed. Besides the obvious other road block of course ;) Then again Nate started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks and continued until right before his first birthday. No, I can’t even entertain the thought right now.
The nugget has been improving lately which makes me really happy. He would never even go to his bed and lay down to fall asleep. He always fell asleep in my bed which meant that either Love or myself had to stay in the living room if we didn’t all want to crowd into the bed. I would let him watch his 2 shows and then the TV would go off. During his 2 shows I would grab my headphones and watch my show on the iPad. Not exactly quality time with your kid but at least we were cuddling. Last week I decided to try a new tactic. I gave him my iPod and pulled up his show and told him that he could watch his shows in his bed. He has fallen asleep on his own almost every night since. It is wonderful and I hope it continues.
The next step will be to bring a twin bed over from my parent’s house. I think he will like a big boy bed but I want to hold off a little longer until he is sleeping better and he’s not coming into our bed on a regular basis. He did so well with potty training and he doesn’t have accidents at night so we ditched the Pull Ups before he was 3 ½. I think I thought this would be easy like that was but I have to remember that he needs to master one thing at a time and that was more important (cleaning up pee versus less sleep…hmmmm).
We also need to get used to Love’s new work schedule. It is stressing both of us out and we need to accept it and get ourselves on a schedule at home that works along with it. He is now working Sunday through Tuesday 7am to 7pm and every other Wednesday 7-7. This is only the second week but we both had to work Sunday and then he didn’t have off for the Monday holiday and it threw everything off. The bonus to the schedule is that today was the first day of 4 days off for him. The bonus for me is that he took Nate Upstate to visit his parents so I could have some quiet time since work is stressing me out. I think it’s great that Nate will get more Daddy Time because lately he is too attached to me.
The bottom line is we need to be more “glass half full” kinda folks if we are going to get through this. Marriage and parenting is stressful enough so we need to keep it together and not let it get to us. I need to start making lists and make sure the little things like Nate’s bath don’t fall through the cracks (Holy crap I am a horrible mommy! My kid is unclean!). Sometimes things need to be one minute at a time.
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