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Not too long ago I posted about Ryan’s sleep problems and how we were working on them – with the help of sleep expert Jen Zajac (Helping Your Child Sleep). Her advice helped us almost instantly go from 1 hour a day naps to two hours a day. Heavenly! Jen Keep Reading Q&A with a sleep expert! Ohhhh where do I even start. We still co-sleep part of the night, but Ryan takes every nap in his crib and he starts out the night in there too. Usually around midnight he wakes up for the first time and that’s when I just take him into bed with me to nurse and we Keep Reading Sleeping… or a lack of Maybe I already do? I love co-sleeping and wouldn’t change a thing, but sometimes it’s pretty hard. Ryan makes noises, he tosses and turns, he farts. All things wake me up.. the slightest whimper and I’m awake (but a level 4 earthquake? nope, slept right though that). And lately, if you follow me on twitter you already know, Keep Reading Pretty soon I’m going to have the no-sleep sillies Welcome to The Breastfeeding Café Carnival! This post was written as part of The Breastfeeding Café’s Carnival. For more info on the Breastfeeding Café, go to www.breastfeedingcafe.wordpress.com. For more info on the Carnival or if you want to participate, contact Claire at clindstrom2 {at} gmail {dot} com. Today’s post is about nighttime parenting Keep Reading Nighttime Nursing & Parenting Apparently I forgot to knock on wood and cross my fingers and kiss my four-leaf clover. I wrote the post “It’s a miracle: swaddling” because Ryan slept most of the night after we wrapped him up in a swaddle blanket, two nights in a row! But the 2 nights in a row after that were absolutely terrible. He Keep Reading We’re back to co-sleeping and lovin’ it I have wonderful news! As a follow up to my post yesterday (Crib Sleeping) where I talked about how badly it was going, we tried again last night. Ryan went down at 7:30pm and from then until 9pm he was up so much that I wouldn’t even consider it sleep! Finally at 9 I got frustrated with running Keep Reading It’s a miracle: swaddling Well, we finally did it. After too many nights of restless sleep with a tossing, turning and flailing baby, we decided Ryan may be ready for his crib. On Wednesday we had Ryan take all his daytime naps in the crib and he actually did very well! When I put him down at night, he slept from 8-10pm Keep Reading Crib Sleeping |
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