Not exact matches
I was not
feeling at all smug about my
bedtime process, until recently when I noticed other moms of young children
around me making mention of their kids being up at 10 pm.
On days when I
feel overwhelmed by weeds and my to do list, I try to remind myself that my lifestyle IS the accomplishment - that I am doing all this while having young kids
around all day; that despite being up multiple times in the night with the baby, having the day made shorter by long, drawn - out
bedtimes, tripping over kid messes and coping with non-nappers, I somehow manage to start it all from seed, can salsa, and learn about honeybees.
The only thing I
feel really confident in is the going - to - bed - routine... he has always fallen asleep earlier, his
bedtime is usually
around 6:30 pm and he goes down like a champ and is usually out for 4 or 5 hours... his waketime in the morning is also
around 6:30 am - 7 am... where should I go from there?
I understand
feeling so exhausted by the time 6 pm rolls
around, when you start to dread the four - hour
bedtime routine that is about to follow.
If a baby is fed, clean,
feeling well once they get to a certain age they will start to cry just to be entertained or held which is often short lived and personally for myself and others I know this is
around bedtime and naptime.
Working on fears and anxieties
around bedtime can help children sleep through the night, because those
feelings are released they don't wake them up later.
It may help to try to structure the day so your toddler
feels more cooperative
around bedtime.
As I just noted, if American women are being bullied
around co-sleeping, the message they are getting isn't that they should
feel guilty if they don't let the baby sleep with them — it's that they might as well just give their babies kitchen knives instead of stuffed animals at
bedtime, should they be irresponsible enough to even consider it.
The designs are minimalist and cute, so even if you don't get an oxygen bump, you'll look and
feel great when
bedtime rolls
around.