It’s 5:52am on Saturday morning. I’m sitting on a recliner with Harrison because he won’t sleep lying down in his crib at the moment. The last four hours (and really two weeks) have been a revolving door of him waking up, one of us holding him for 10-15 minutes until he falls asleep, putting him in his crib, then him waking up an hour later to do it again. Our little guy is not a good sleeper quite yet.
Bad sleep habits coupled with Meg going back to work has left very little time for non-essentials, and you may be surprised to hear that Splittingtens is currently non-essential. I have a few ideas for posts but simply have not had the time to write anything down.
What I’m doing now – writing in an email draft on my phone while he sleeps on me – is pretty genius. I don’t know why it took my so long to think of this. In fact, I’m going to work on other posts right now since I could be stuck here a while!
I have not forgotten about the blog, and once Harrison is sleeping somewhat normal, I will post more.
“once Harrison is sleeping somewhat normal”
Lol! The man’s got jokes!
That might not happen. It might be 9 months from now. It might be 2 weeks. The great thing parenting teaches early on is you have to learn, adapt and overcome. Then you get better at it. Then the baby changes habits and you start all over.
Resources are abundant and overwhelming. And people are full of unsolicited advice – Oh, the baby doesn’t have a blanket at night?!? Yes Diane, new research and things change, and frankly, you’ve been out of the workplace for 35 years; people no longer ash their cigarette while sending a fax.
Take what’s needed and leave the rest. That said, if it’s any help, Taking Cara Babies, was very helpdful for the first few months.
Consistent full night’s sleep is closer than you think – just dont take anything to heart that you or Meg might say to each other in the interim.