Not exact matches
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the
crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels
during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.
If she has an elaborate
bedtime routine, typically needs your comfort
during the night, clings or
cries when you leave her, you may want to postpone a sleepover — for everyone's sake.
Increased
crying and fussiness —
during the day as well at
bedtime 4.
The problem lies in the fact that she started self - weaning at 8 months (pushing me away and
crying when I tried to feed
during the day — she still breastfed at
bedtime and in the morning, sometimes I could sneak one in if she was tired enough before her nap!).
If your quarters feel too close for full - on
cry - it - outs, West recommends a modified version of her Sleep Lady Shuffle technique: Spend the first two or three evenings putting your baby down at
bedtime awake, comforting her from a chair next to her crib — and going back to that chair to soothe her
during night wakings.
Normally,
during both
bedtime and naps, he'll wake up
crying and I'll go comfort him in an attempt to get him to go back to bed.
This worked for the first few nights then last night, after being left in it
during the day whilst we were there for 10 - 30 minutes at a time to teach her its a safe place and we will always come back etc, when it came to
bedtime she
cried and howled most of the night.
During the visits she also learned some useful tricks: how to soothe her baby when he was
crying, for example, and how to set up a
bedtime routine.