Good Heavens, I Thought This Was Supposed to End!!!
Adri has all of a sudden stopped sleeping through the night. Actually, she's never really SLEPT through the night. I've always had to get up at least once just to pat her back and help her go back to sleep. But lately even that isn't working. She's fully waking up at least twice a night, sometimes more, and in order to get her back to sleep I have to pick her up out of her crib and rock her back to sleep. In the mean time, I end up dozing off in the rocker and waking up an hour later with a kink in my neck. I put her back in her crib, and two and a half to three hours later, she's awake and we do it all over again. Then she wakes up at her normal time at 7:30. Sometimes she takes a nap, sometimes she doesn't. On the days I've tried to nap while she's napping, she's only slept for 45 minutes—just long enough for me to start to doze off. I don't mind rocking her back to sleep. I'm all for the attachment parenting thing. In fact, if there was room in our bedroom, I'd just bring her in there for a while until this passes. Am I setting a bad precedent by putting her back to sleep that way? It's not like I can't make the best of it—make myself comfortable and sleep for an hour in the chair and then put her back in her bed. I just don't want to start something with her that's going to end up making her "needy" and my life miserable.posted by Brandi at
11:04 AM
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Hi Brandi!
In my humble opinion you cannot make a baby needy by meeting their needs. I am a huge AP proponent, and I think you have to look at it as an investment. It's tough now, and it might even get a little tougher, but the benefits of having that loving trusting relationship will pay off in spades as your daughter grows and her needs change from needing someone to help her sleep to needing someone to give her guidance about friends. Building that trust is infintely important. You cannot hurt someone by being there for them. The kids that are ignored and don't have their needs met are the ones that refuse to recognize their needs when they get older and refuse guidance and eventually end up bitter at the least and in trouble at the most.
Just my two cents, (or maybe this is more like a dollar), but I say rock your baby to sleep whenever she needs for as long as she needs.
By
The Mama, at
2:54 PM
Thanks for the reminders!!!! I'll just make the living room rocker a bit more comfortable and hunker down for the long haul. Truth be known, I really do enjoy rocking her :-)
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Brandi, at
4:04 PM
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