Last night Lily woke up crying again. We tried the hug & a book approach but this time it didn’t work. She’d go down for short periods of time, but then she’d be backup and crying. We then tried to let her sleep with us, but that wasn’t working well either. She’s sleep for maybe […]
Category: Sleep
Sometimes all we need is a hug and a story.
There is no style like comfortable.
One great thing about little kids is that they are comfortable being who they are. They don’t care about what they wear, how they look to others or if they seem to be doing everything a little odd. As long as they are comfortable, they are good to go. For example, this is Lily taking a nap […]
Changing Up The Schedule
Testing out SleepSacks with feet.
Sleeping in the dark.
Last Thursday, Lily slept her first night in the dark. She didn’t mean to though. You see, we have a night light that we turn on whenever she goes to bed. However, Dad forgot to turn it on. It wasn’t until she was fast asleep, and we were going to bed ourselves, that we noticed. […]
When can we start putting blankets on our baby?
We were told from day one that blankets couldn’t go in the crib for safety reasons. Of course, if Lily was swaddled in a smaller receiving blanket, than that was ok. The sad thing is, we got lots of nice blankets for shower gifts and even home-made ones! They’ve been used, but never for sleeping. So when […]
Letting them cry themselves to sleep really works?!
There is a lot of advice that comes and goes. Some is easy to do while others sounds like the worst thing ever. Like when we were told to lay Lily down and just let herself cry herself to sleep. If we did this, she’d eventually allow us to put her to bed, while awake, […]