Sleep Training?
More red wine, please?
Thanks to moving twice in 60 days and to teething Anna and I are “sleep training” Crowley again.
And by “sleep training” I mean baby boy sleeps when he feels like it and trains us to sleep only during those intervals. It’s working out so well I’m going to write a book called, “How to sleep train your parents in 5 easy steps.”
Technically, I’ll be the ghost writer.
The five steps? 1. Be adorable, 2. Learn to cry-yelp like you’ve had a horrible nightmare, 3. Keep crying like only your tear drops will lift us our of this recession, 4. Look miserable while gnawing on your fingers, drooling and blowing booger bubbles out your nose and 5. Repeat steps one through four ad nauseum.
People tell me I don’t look my age, 49. And there is probably some truth to that. But I finally feel my age. I never have until now. Some mornings I feel like someone beat me with a stick during the night. I woke up this morning in the fetal position, crying, drooling and blowing booger bubbles out my nose. I wish I could combine the wisdom I have now in raising a child with the energy I had in my twenties. It’s a cruel joke that when I’m finally mature enough to understand some of life that I am also incapable of speaking in complete sentences because of sleep dep at my advanced age.
Anna says she sees improvement. Little man is staying down longer. Crying less.Progress. I don’t know how long this will take but I’m committed to the outcome. About the time he sleeps through the night again I’ll be nothing more than a babbling, shaved ape. About the time we get him our of diapers I’ll be wearing them.
I have to go. I’m nodding off as I write this. Which means it’s time for Crowley to wake up… MR
Oh, he’ll be out of diapers long before you need them. LOL! If you can just make it through the “terrible twos”, you’ll be fine!
Oh but after diapers and the terrible twos comes the “TEENAGER”!!!! Then you and Anna will be awake waiting for him to come home. Imagine how sleep dev you will be then at what 65 yrs old? (not to make fun of you being old) I have been through it once and now have to experience the teenager years again times 2 and my three kids are GIRLS. Enjoy him life is too precious to waste sleeping.
Twos? Threes are 100 times worse!
I have never experienced your pain without kids, but I did LOL while reading this one. Hope it gets better soon.
I implemented the “let him/her cry” strategy with both my kids. Works like a charm. If you have the guts to do it, you’ll be getting a full night sleep in 4 days (or your money back!)