as they say, don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched!
i guess i did some pre-mature chicken counting. either that or our little bear has been reading this blog and decided to teach me a lesson. 🙂 (although i shouldn’t complain b/c she did sleep for 6 hours straight last night and was either sleeping or eating from 9p to 9a…i’m thinking we’ll be back on track in no time.)
it seems this cold has really knocked us down a few pegs in the learning-to-sleep and the sleeping through the night departments….sadly.
our little sniffle bear is still sniffling away…so much so that we got a cool mist vaporizer to see if that would help her sleep. my huz has some kind of bug that he’s fighting off, too, so we’re hurtin’ over here in the bear family.
but…i did hear of the cutest thing from springroll over at from here to fertility. she told me in a comment about wubbanubs…these adorable little stuffed animals that hold a paci in place for your little sprite.
they are too cute and i’m seriously contemplating getting one to see if that would help her locate it when it slips from her mouth…most of the time she cries out and all she needs us to do is replace it for her a couple of times until she’s in a deep enough sleep not to care anymore. i find this a simple, but highly annoying task. up and down the stairs trying to will that stupid binky to stay in her mouth or hoping she’ll give up caring if she’s sucking anymore.
but she doesn’t typically like to suck on that type of paci, so i’m not sure if it will work. i did give her a paci like the wubbanub paci to her this afternoon and she sucked on it for a bit, which surprised me…maybe it would work afterall?
do any of you have any wubbanub experience? do tell!
in other breaking news…………..yesterday was a papa bear and baby bear day. i was off to a conference all day in a nearby city, while my huz was on full-time solo baby patrol. they did fabulously, even though both are under the weather! my huz doesn’t really realize what a big deal it is for me that he’s as well-versed in caring for our little bear as i am (well, i like to think i’m a little better at it!). 🙂 it makes me very happy that we’re both so invested in her little life. i could not–and would not want to–do this on my own. hats off to single parents everywhere!
and a major hats off to my huz!
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June 6, 2010 at 3:00 pm
k
Aww hope the little dear gets better soon and resumes her great sleeping through the night!
As for pacis, i have the same issue with him spitting it out and then crying- I end up putting him in bed with me so I can quickly pop it back in- I’ll e curious how you like this device!
Not to be too personal, but are you breastfeeding? I’ve been told not to let him sleep six hours or so (not that he does yet!) because it will dry up my supply. I’ve searched and searched for resources on when milk supply is established but the answers are all over the place. My pediatrician said I can let him sleep as long as he wants but most lactation consultants act like letting him sleep five hours is akin to child abuse or something!
June 6, 2010 at 6:59 pm
lillyshephard
yes, i am breastfeeding…i haven’t heard of concerns about milk drying up and i haven’t worried too much about this (except when i’m feeling particularily anxious about everything, that is)…i often get up to pump in the night, even if she’s still sleeping and i always pump right after she eats after a long sleep. i never deprive her of food in the night hours, meaning if she wakes and is hungry, i feed her no matter how badly i’d rather sleep. so i figure, if she’s sleeping i’m sure not going to wake her!! especially since she’s well over 6 wks old. but i’ll have to look around for info on the milk drying issue.