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setbacks and progress
Aug. 30th, 2003 12:01 amor, all about the bebe:
i have from time to time mentioned milestones such as the first time sylvia has slept through the night, slept in her crib etc. what i do not mention, more our of laziness than anything else, is that often the first occasion is not followed by a second for quite some time. nonetheless, we are starting to see real progress. last night's experimental meal was peas and she liked 'em, yea! tonight she got 2.5 teaspoons and would have probably gone for more. but back to last night. we ate dinner, fed her peas, bathed her, read to her(papa), rocked her to sleep(papa) and snuck her into her crib where she awoke at 5am, full of angst and hungry. did you miss anything in that list? i did not feed her after the bath or in fact, at any time between probably 9pm and 5am. she's in her crib now, we'll see how she does tonight. it would be nice if she slept through again, but i'm not counting on it. this afternoon there was another sleep milestone. i put sylvia in her crib, she woke up, was upset started crying - and then stopped and went back to sleep. i have been waiting until sylvia shows some signs of 'sturdiness' in her sleep to try to teach her to sleep on her own and i think resettling after being awoken is stage one. we're going to start with small periods such as one minute and see how she does. before this, i honestly believe that no amount of 'crying it out' would result in sleep until she cried so much she passed out from lack of oxygen.
the will to crawl is still present and is progressing in parallel with an interest in pulling up. the first time i held sylvia up and really felt her take her holding her own weight was this weekend about 20,000 miles over kentucky. how's that for a milestone? i still can't get over how big she is. once she is standing and crawling, it is going to feel weird. i feel sad that my baby is going away, but i'm so happy for sylvia. it's only been 7 months and she's so big. everytime i hold her up, i think her little feet are just going to collapse, but each time she is sturdier. i can tell she really enjoys it.
i have from time to time mentioned milestones such as the first time sylvia has slept through the night, slept in her crib etc. what i do not mention, more our of laziness than anything else, is that often the first occasion is not followed by a second for quite some time. nonetheless, we are starting to see real progress. last night's experimental meal was peas and she liked 'em, yea! tonight she got 2.5 teaspoons and would have probably gone for more. but back to last night. we ate dinner, fed her peas, bathed her, read to her(papa), rocked her to sleep(papa) and snuck her into her crib where she awoke at 5am, full of angst and hungry. did you miss anything in that list? i did not feed her after the bath or in fact, at any time between probably 9pm and 5am. she's in her crib now, we'll see how she does tonight. it would be nice if she slept through again, but i'm not counting on it. this afternoon there was another sleep milestone. i put sylvia in her crib, she woke up, was upset started crying - and then stopped and went back to sleep. i have been waiting until sylvia shows some signs of 'sturdiness' in her sleep to try to teach her to sleep on her own and i think resettling after being awoken is stage one. we're going to start with small periods such as one minute and see how she does. before this, i honestly believe that no amount of 'crying it out' would result in sleep until she cried so much she passed out from lack of oxygen.
the will to crawl is still present and is progressing in parallel with an interest in pulling up. the first time i held sylvia up and really felt her take her holding her own weight was this weekend about 20,000 miles over kentucky. how's that for a milestone? i still can't get over how big she is. once she is standing and crawling, it is going to feel weird. i feel sad that my baby is going away, but i'm so happy for sylvia. it's only been 7 months and she's so big. everytime i hold her up, i think her little feet are just going to collapse, but each time she is sturdier. i can tell she really enjoys it.