Living. And loving. And hurting.
Back before Ruby was born, I used to joke all the time that I didn’t care what kind of baby I had, as long as it was a better sleeper than Ronan. Fussy, gassy, colicky, needy, whiny… I’d take it as long as we got sleep. The first week or so with Ruby was as expected. Wake, change, nurse, burp,… Read More
I’ve been tweeting and talking about this for ages, time to write a blog. Our Sleep Saga has been well documented. For the last several months, Ronan has been an EXCELLENT sleeper. Here is what we were working with. We put Ronan to bed on sleepy cues. When he slows down or gets glossy eyed, it’s time for bed. That… Read More
This blog has been a long time coming. If you’ve been a regular around here, you might have noticed that it’s been quite a while since I’ve bitched about Ronan’s sleeping habits. I haven’t written this post for a lot of reasons: for fear that it would jinx us, for fear of judgement, for fear of backlash. In our sleep… Read More
Following up my 3 day marathon post of a story, I haven’t got much to say. Ronan was a complete bear last night. He didn’t go to sleep easily or well, he was up at 10 and didn’t go back down until 2 am. Yes, I’m serious. I tried for almost 2 hours to put him to sleep. All of… Read More
You know you have those days. The ones where you’re so preoccupied with something that you cant get it out of your head? The ones where you get so caught up in your own life that you can’t find the way to pull yourself out? I’ve been having one of those weeks. I didn’t blog TWO entire days this week…. Read More
One of the things they tell you when you start changing things is to only change one at a time. That way, you’ll know what it is that you did that caused the improvement. I never listen. We started Ronan on his reflux medicine, but around the same time I started trying a new ‘going to bed’ method. It’s the… Read More
