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Kids off to church camp for the first time today til thursday. And I'm gone for the legacy til next Monday night. That's a long freaking time to be apart
Oh no doubt it will be all good when I get down there...they are big fans of trophiesHopefully we keep you busy enough to take your mind off of it. I feel the same way traveling without my family this year.
Oh no doubt it will be all good when I get down there...they are big fans of trophies
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
By sleep train I'm assuming you mean letting them cry/smooth themselves back to sleep?
Probably not the popular answer, but for us we just put them in the bed with us. We have the girls rooms upstairs and we initially tried rocking them back to sleep in the glider. Worked for my oldest as she was easier to put down, but the youngest is a light sleeper & immediately looked for one of us when we put her down. So we just used the guest room queen bed or brought them downstairs to ours and made life easier.
For us it was easier to move them to their own bed later on than let/make them cry it out. Just couldn't do it, I'm too much of a push over and couldn't stand hearing my babies cry.
Mike, you don't know how nice it is to see someone post something like this, with all the stuff out there from "experts" I've hit that overwhelmed point where I almost feel guilty for wanting to baby my baby and enjoy her. She's only going to be a baby once. We need to mover her to her crib in her room, that isn't an option as shes at that point of too big for her bassinet, but I can't do this no rocking them to sleep thing, I adore my time rocking her to sleep. I dunno, there is so much out there that makes things insanely overwhelming.
Dude we tried to "do it by the book" with the first one, but quickly realized with our schedules it just wasn't going to happen.
I would fall asleep on the couch with them on my chest, in the glider or flat out put them in bed with me surrounded by pillows bc that's what made them happy and calm. I never understood the "let them cry" mentality. For some it works and that's cool, but for us we valued our sleep and sanity over listening to a baby cry on the monitor.
Plus like you said they are only babies once and we enjoyed the heck out of making them happy and sleep calmly.
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
Some stuff we did was get a sleep sheep if you dont have one. For whatever reason, Anabelle loved that sound. Sitting down with her and reading and singing also helped. Doesnt matter what you read or sing, they dont know. They just know that you are there. I would just read until she fell asleep and then put her down. It will take a little time to get in a rhythm but once you get into the groove with anything, they start to follow suit.
Yeah, we have a dohm white noise machine in our room and hers, its awesome, and no 30 minute turnoff like her sheep (but the sheep is a travelling blessing).
Thats what I'm going to do I think, its just hard because so many "experts" are on the "no sleep crutch" bandwagon and how rocking/reading/feeding/whatever them until their completely asleep is bad. I just want to enjoy her while shes this size, because its going away so damn fast.
It was easier the second time for sure.
We did the thing where you let them cry a while, soothe, let them cry more for a little longer, soothe, etc. It sucks in the present, but takes very little time to implement.
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
Some stuff we did was get a sleep sheep if you dont have one. For whatever reason, Anabelle loved that sound. Sitting down with her and reading and singing also helped. Doesnt matter what you read or sing, they dont know. They just know that you are there. I would just read until she fell asleep and then put her down. It will take a little time to get in a rhythm but once you get into the groove with anything, they start to follow suit.
We did similar to Hawk with ours and it has worked really well. basically you put the child down, if they cry you let them go for one min, go in soothe replace pacifier what not, leave the room, wait 3 mins. repeat, then 5 then 10. They would usually fall asleep between the 3 and 5 min check sometime before the 10, I don't recall sitting out the 10 min.
Eff the experts. You and Amanda are the experts of your kid. Everything else is suggestions but no one really knows what will work for Charlotte. Its trial and error which sucks but you guys will get in a groove. Let me see if I can find the article my wife sent me about "letting kids cry it out". If people want to do that, that's there thing but I would never let my kid just cry and cry.
Charlotte also isn't a sleeper or a napper, and was collicky which compounds the problem, soothing isn't the easiest thing in the world as she's quick to just go full on ballistic.
I pray the second kiddo has my sleep habits, and not her moms like Lotte does. Hahahaha
Some stuff we did was get a sleep sheep if you dont have one. For whatever reason, Anabelle loved that sound. Sitting down with her and reading and singing also helped. Doesnt matter what you read or sing, they dont know. They just know that you are there. I would just read until she fell asleep and then put her down. It will take a little time to get in a rhythm but once you get into the groove with anything, they start to follow suit.
So, for those of you that sleep trained, what method did you use? If you didn't, why not?
We're at that point and I'm struggling with what to do, and crying it out isn't an option.
I've tried to start the pick-up/put-down stuff on my own while Amanda is on nights, but I'm too much a baby about my baby to do it alone.
Anywho, any thoughts/convo would be appreciated.
Well, after not getting plunked once all season, in the first game of the playoffs tonight my son got drilled right in the ribs. Every coach in the dugout went "oooooooh" and winced it was so loud. He got a bit teary eyed, but stayed on his feet and walked it off with one of the other coaches while I stayed in the dugout. He ended up belting a single into the outfield in his next at bat and told me he was mad that he got drilled since he thought he could get a hit off of the kid who was pitching at the time.
The team was down 6-2 after 3, and ended up winning with a walkoff hit 7-6. Our next game is Wednesday night, it's double elimination so we won't know who we're playing until tomorrow morning. I can't believe how much fun tonight was for all the parents watching the kids mount a big comeback, it's nights like these that make coaching so worthwhile.