Amendment to this post: Mom's hurt because she says I threw her under the bus with this post. :) I denied it at first and then reread the post, and I admit I kinda did... But I was up really early and running on very few cumulative sleep hours... Anyway, what you will read below is true; Samara has been spoiled totally rotten by her Lovey, but I suppose it's good for babies to be spoiled. :) I love you, Mom; thanks for laughing about me throwing you under the bus in my grumpy state. You are one good grandmother!
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When I came here, I came with a sweet little baby who liked to sit in the swing or on the couch during the day, to be swaddled at night, and who slept from the time her 9:30pm feeding ended until 6:30am. Maybe I had a miracle child on my hands, but whatever the case, it is no more. Since then, during the week's time I have spent in Florida, I have been otherwise convinced that babies can - and should - be held all day long ("Well, when you kids were little, we just carried you everywhere"), that a swaddle is too tight (nevermind the flapping arms that can now fling the paci out of the mouth constantly), and that sleeping through the night is unheard of and bordering on child neglect ("Well of course she's waking up at 15 minute intervals from 3:30am until her 6:30am feeding! She's starving to death! Just feed her when she cries and let her sleep in the bed with you. That's what we did." Nevermind the fact that she slept an entire month without middle-of-the-night feedings, or that she could easily smother underneath a stray arm or comforter on the bed). I still love my family, but we've created a monster.
As I lie here in bed nursing my daughter at 6:15am, after staying up until 12:30am for an extra feeding last night and somehow still waking up to the sounds of a baby crying at 4:00 this morning and thereafter, I am left wondering if and when my next night of more than four hours of sleep will ever come.
On a positive note, today is my birthday. Happy Birthday to me, and props to my mother, who undoubtedly also went through a similar string of sleepless and tearful nights thanks to me, and has lived to tell the story.
~Mary Jacqueline
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The lesson? Family is "remembering" things that occurred 20+ years ago; not to mention new techniques and theories have developed since then that, might, just maybe, be better than the old ones. Not that traditional methods are always inferior, but innovation does happen...otherwise I'll be unemployed in short order.
Daddy will set things straight when you get home!!
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