Sunday, January 18, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Day in the life, Part 2
6 month Check Up
At Charlie's six month check up this week, his doctor (who, by the way looks, sounds and acts EXACTLY like Dustin Hoffman, except he might be 10 years older) was telling me how a schedule can help Charlie's sleep issues. (No duh) I said, I agree - but it's hard b/c he wakes up at a different time EVERY morning even though I put him down at the SAME time every night with the same routine. His wake up time can vary up to 2 hours -- which makes a consistent day schedule very difficult. The doc replies, "well, that's highly unusual." I'm like, is it something to be concerned about? He says, "no, it's just strange."
GREAT.
Of course, this morning, charlie wakes up at 5 a.m. I discover upon viewing our new SWEET new video monitor (thanks Papa!) that Dan must have taken his woobie out of the crib and probably moved the binkie away (he's ultra SIDS conscious) -- so I go in there to give him his "sleep props" in hopes he'll go back to sleep. And then I smell it. Dirty diaper central.
When I finally get him all clean and put back together and into his crib I know he's not going to last long before the binkie falls out and he starts a wailin'. I decide to try something: I throw 4 binkies into the crib surrounding his head as a test to see if he's more likely to get one back in the mouth after one falls out. Long story short, he falls back asleep around 6:15 a.m. with a binkie in the mouth after several minutes of crying and trying with binkies, he finally gets it! Then he woke up 30 minutes later :)
At Charlie's six month check up this week, his doctor (who, by the way looks, sounds and acts EXACTLY like Dustin Hoffman, except he might be 10 years older) was telling me how a schedule can help Charlie's sleep issues. (No duh) I said, I agree - but it's hard b/c he wakes up at a different time EVERY morning even though I put him down at the SAME time every night with the same routine. His wake up time can vary up to 2 hours -- which makes a consistent day schedule very difficult. The doc replies, "well, that's highly unusual." I'm like, is it something to be concerned about? He says, "no, it's just strange."
GREAT.
Of course, this morning, charlie wakes up at 5 a.m. I discover upon viewing our new SWEET new video monitor (thanks Papa!) that Dan must have taken his woobie out of the crib and probably moved the binkie away (he's ultra SIDS conscious) -- so I go in there to give him his "sleep props" in hopes he'll go back to sleep. And then I smell it. Dirty diaper central.
When I finally get him all clean and put back together and into his crib I know he's not going to last long before the binkie falls out and he starts a wailin'. I decide to try something: I throw 4 binkies into the crib surrounding his head as a test to see if he's more likely to get one back in the mouth after one falls out. Long story short, he falls back asleep around 6:15 a.m. with a binkie in the mouth after several minutes of crying and trying with binkies, he finally gets it! Then he woke up 30 minutes later :)
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