Yes, you're reading it right! I love my sweet baby girl, she's a really good baby most of the time and I realize this habit needs to be broken at some point. Let me say this up front.....Sam was a perfect baby, so we always expected our second to be harder. CONFIRMED! The girl loves to be held and she has a REALLY loud cry. Bedtime is like clockwork and if it's after 9:00, she's toast. It's the sleeping period, that gets tricky. Layla always wakes up in the middle of the night, screaming bloody murder. It's never the same time each night, but we always know, one of us will be sleep deprived. Lucky me, last night. I was just dosing off around midnight when my lady sang her beautiful song. I quickly went to get her, so she wouldn't wake up Sam and immediately put her on the boob. Women who nurse understand the fine line between feeding a hungry baby or just hangin' on for comfort. The lady choses the latter in the middle of the night. The "cycle" begins, I pull away, thinking she's finally nodded off, she cries, right back on. This goes on for a good hour until I finally just pass out myself. I've finally gotten used to the kinks in my neck when I'm the comforter. So, what's worse.......my built-in passy or my hubby who I find passed out on the chair with the lady when I leave for work.
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It's such a hard call. On one hand, you know that she eventually needs to learn to put herself back to sleep. On the other hand, it is so much worse to have two awake so you want to keep the one quiet. At that point I usually broke the rule and took the crying baby to bed with me. That way when they settled back to sleep they just kind of fell off the nip and we could all be sleeping. MrsBunny |
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Oh, I have so been there. My daughter considered me to be her pasifier until she was 2 and a half. My son was not that way but they both still wake up in the night. I woke up this morning with a 4 year old and a 2 year old in my bed and my husband in my daughter's bed. Sarah-B |
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Ahhh.. been there done that. I am not sure how old your little one is, but do know it is very normal for them to just hang out for comfort. Especially when they are newborns. I hope it gets better really soon and you are able to get some sleep. Michelle |
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I remember those days... *sigh* sorry hun :) BTW you got great boobs! I can understand her need to keep her mommy close-by for comfort! Z |
I can comprehend! My ds will be 10 weeks on Friday. He loves his boobie nuk! We have been trying to get him to take a nuk when he is tired, but not hungry. Then again, he is 14.4 pounds at 9 weeks...so you can see by his girth that we have given him the boob more than nuk (wink).
SamprosBut seriously, though, dont worry too much about it right now. Just enjoy the fact that you can nurture your sweet little girl. In time you can work on getting her to sleep more through the night and less reliant on the nipple. I promise, it will happen (as you know from having a child before). If you are like me, you worry about all the things you might be doing wrong and not taking a moment to appreciate the beauty in what you are doing right! Enjoy your sweet baby!
Stacy
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