I love having a routine. When my husband was in Iraq, my routine was to wake up for the 5am phone call (which I was blessed with almost daily towards the end of his deployment), go back to sleep until it was time to get up for work, go to work, come home, send him an email, then watch TV or whatever until it was bed time, or I'd go hang out with friends since I was so lonely. Before the baby was born, it was wake up whenever, eat, take a nap (I was 8 months pregnant when I got laid off), laundry or something, TV, play around on facebook, watch TV. Now, I am trying to get Leah to adapt to a routine but it's very hard. I got her to know the difference between days and nights, got her to sleep in her crib, but today was horrible when I tried to get her to nap in her crib. I feed her before her naps so I did that in her room as opposed to the living room, and this mornign she napped for about 30 minutes and that was after being fed, screaming, me going in there to rub her tummy twice, and her getting her paci. Then I took her out grocery shopping with me, and she stayed awake and grinned until we left Vons to go home, which is about a 5 minute drive. So, I let her sleep in the carseat inside while I unloaded the car and then tried to put her in her crib, when she woke up and decided not to nap. Then...I took her downstairs and she played on her playmat for a good while. At 3 I fed her, and tried again to get her to nap but my dogs heard something and decided to bark LOUDLY. She screamed...so I gave in and picked her up, let her finish her bottle that she hadn't finished, burped her successfully and tried again. She cried, went to sleep, and cried some more so I set a time limit until I went and got her and she went to sleep and has been to sleep for about 15 minutes. It's almost 5 and I am afraid to get up and make dinner. I don't want her to wake up because she HAS to be tired after getting up at 630, and only taking maybe an hour combined nap until this point. She'll probably wake up by 6 or so, if not sooner because she's in her crib, to eat.
Who knew that it would be so hard to get a baby to nap in their crib? I don't know if she just likes to be around me during the day, or what, but goodness. I just hope this doesn't interfere with her sleep tonight. Her nightly routine is a bath, then she gets fed and goes to bed but not right after her bath. I'm trying to get to that point.
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Addison would do the same thing sometimes. It was like we would have a good day and then a bad day. I never knew what to expect. And I would look at her and think...geez you have to be tired! I knew I sure was :)
ReplyDeleteDays like that...I just think that we can start fresh the next day and hopefully it will be better. I always set a limit too. If she cried for more than 5 minutes, I went in there. If it was blood curdling screams...then I usually gave in MUCH quicker. I have two dogs too and they have ruined so many naptimes. I swear I said I was going to get a shock collar because I was so sick of them waking her up. I would keep pressing the crib at naptime. You do not want her to get used to sleeping on her or next to you. Eventually, she will get used to it. It just takes tons of practice.