January 2012 Weddings
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How was your weekend? How are you doing? Let's talk. It is super quiet here.
Re: It's Monday!
01.21.2012---> I married a redhead I'm crazy about.
04.2016: IT'S A BOY! Elias Alan is due!
WDW trips: 05/14 (1st trip! Art of Animation; Little Mermaid), 05/15 (Pop Century!). DL Trips: 12/15
01.21.2012---> I married a redhead I'm crazy about.
04.2016: IT'S A BOY! Elias Alan is due!
WDW trips: 05/14 (1st trip! Art of Animation; Little Mermaid), 05/15 (Pop Century!). DL Trips: 12/15
I'm feeling frustrated and defeated.
So I was that first time mom that rocked/nursed my kid to sleep for naps and bed time. She hated her crib. Nursing was also easy while we co-slept. Eventually to break the rocking habit I just laid next to her for naps. Once she passed out I would get up. Of course there are days when she is extra clingy that if I barely move it wakes her up. I've been sitting at the foot or side of her bed these last few weeks trying to get her to adjust to me not laying next to her. Most days it works but some like today not so much. So on these days I just make her stay in bed for quiet time while I putter around (usually in my room). And I am just so done with it. I want her to be okay with just laying in her bed without having to check if I am upstairs every 10 minutes. I'm hoping this gets better before baby #2 gets here.
I feel like a failure because I'm the one that hasn't "broken" the habit before now. I hate phrasing it that way. I know all babies are different. I keep hoping and praying this next one is an easier sleeper. I normally don't mind the downtime especially as I am super tired these days. I think I am just worrying or stressing because I wanted her to adjust to naps on her own before baby got here so she wouldn't feel like I couldn't lay with her because of baby. Even if that's exactly the reason.
So after 2 hours of her tossing, turning, laying there, and checking on me - I think she is finally asleep. Of course I thought that at the 1 hour mark, went downstairs and 10 minutes later she was awake and sobbing asking where I was.
It was just really bothering me today that I feel like I've messed up my kid. Pregnancy hormones don't help.