Comments on: In these arms

By: A bit of everything / Durham Region Baby (Ontario, Canada)

A bit of everything / Durham Region Baby (Ontario, Canada) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:15:24 +0000

[...] Cathy (January 13, 2009) – What a cute picture! I totally… [...]

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:34:22 +0000

What a cute picture!

I totally understand what you’re going through. It is the most frustrating thing to set them down and have them wake up – over & over & over. And all you want to do is get a glass of water or throw in some laundry or – gasp – enjoy a few minutes to yourself.

I swaddled Andrew at this age. It really seemed to help. I leave the TV or radio on during naps to have background noise. At night I also have “white noise” in both my kids rooms. Andrew has a fan and Eric a radio on static. It helps dull out the other noises.

By: Of Men and Bassinettes « …And Bells on Her Toes

Of Men and Bassinettes « …And Bells on Her Toes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:10:07 +0000

[...] My friend Carly writes about the trials and tribulations of being a young Mom in Durham. Today she wrote an interesting post about her new baby Alice and what a headache it has been trying to get her to [...]

By: DoodlesMom

DoodlesMom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:40:33 +0000

oh such bad grammar !! the above should have read “if they’re” … 1000 lashes with a wet noodle!

By: DoodlesMom

DoodlesMom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:37:08 +0000

silly question … are the sides of the bassinette, see through or solid? If their solid that might be the problem .. Alice can’t see what’s going on around her. Same thing happened with our kids when I put them in the beautiful cradle that my dad made. The sides on it were too high and they couldn’t see anything except straight up. When I put them in the basinette that had mesh sides, no problems.

I also put Caity’s bassinette on our coffee table and turned the TV up on purpose at nap time – so she’d learn to sleep through it. Later when she outgrew that one, I put her in her playpen which was right by the TV speaker. Not only did she have no problem sleeping, but she still can sleep through anything… Caity learned that the basinette was for nap time and her crib was for bed time, until she out grew it all …

Hope that helps.

By: Jen O.

Jen O. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:56:27 +0000

I so totally am NOT speaking to anyone about babies sleeping because a) I have some of the worst examples for kids and b) because m jealousy will cause me to do bad things to people…

BUT…

if you do decide to start swaddling again, I have a very lightly used Miracle Blanket that you can borrow.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:50:14 +0000

What a cute picture of little (getting bigger!) Alice. Hard to get exasperated with her when you see that big smile.

My thing – the shushing and comforting but not picking up helped a lot as he grew older (maybe a couple of months older than Alice is now).

Hope today is better!.

By: Mary Lynn

Mary Lynn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:43:17 +0000

Oh yeah…my kids LOVED to be swaddled. Definitely recommend you try that. With Hana I tried swaddling early on and she wasn’t a fan, but at about 6 weeks I tried again and as soon as I did she started sleeping so much better. She slept swaddled till she was well past a year old. I kept having to search for bigger and bigger blankets to wrap around her.

Funny, but until I saw Lisa’s comment I almost forgot about all the swaddling. Amazing how we live and breathe all these things when the kids are young and then they slip from our minds only a few years later.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:13:24 +0000

we had this problem recently as well, we STARTED swaddling him at 2 months old and it worked like a charm. We have other sleeping issues now that he’s almost 6 months but that’s another story.

By: Krystle

Krystle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:54:34 +0000

Oh goodness I SO know what you’re talking about with the putting them down and pretty much so as soon as you do they’re up! Ayven went through that terrible phase pretty much so at the same age as Alice. It drove me insane! After a few days of him seeming to not get much sleep, our doctor advised comforting him without holding him, every 5 minutes, rub their back, speak to them, calm them. It sounds kinda like “yea right, that won’t work”, but it did.
Even though he was so young, he was still playing games with us, so we showed him that he can’t always sleep in our arms, that his bassinet is the place to be, and he took to it within a couple days or shooshing and calming, he was a pro!
It’s really paid off in the long run too because he knows easily how to soothe himself to sleep which makes bedtimes a breeze.