Monday, September 12, 2011
:(
I love breastfeeding the Bear. I wish breastfeeding was one of those things that was easy for me, something that my daughter and I were awesome at together. Like birth. We were damn good at that. But breastfeeding is hard, we just keep coming up against barriers. We won't give up, it's far too important to me. But shit...breast *is* best, but it certainly isn't always easy :(
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Jinx!!
I'll start by saying, I'm not usually a superstitious person. I'll happily walk under a ladder, in front of a black cat while bellowing Macbeth at the top of my lungs in a theatre. With my umbrella up. Yep, I'm just that reckless. But when it comes to talking about my baby's sleep...I don't wanna jinx it!!
As a parent, people often ask a lot of questions. You know the ones - "Are they a good eater/sleeper/future overlord of the universe?". I actually don't have so much of an issue with these questions as a lot of people do. I'll happily chat about my baby to whoever will listen, (think, pulling out pics on my iPhone and showing randoms in line at the supermarket...yeah, I'm one of those brands o' crazy). My issue is that I feel like the minute I actually tell the truth about my daughters sleeping habits, I'll somehow jinx it. So I'm going to stop living in fear and just come out and say it; my daughter is an awesome sleeper. She's been sleeping pretty much through the night since she was about 5 weeks old, it's usually pretty safe to assume that she'll go down for eight or nine hours. And she naps pretty well during the day too. But here's the thing, I have never been hung up on how much she sleeps. What's that sweetheart, you'd prefer to wake every hour and a half and scream at me? Okay, that's cool, do your thing. What, now you're sleeping from 9-6? Yeah, that's cool too baby! I haven't ever (nor will I ever) tried CIO, feeding on a schedule, nothing like that. We're kinda hippies, you see. We have coslept from birth, demand fed and generally let the Bear decide how and when shit was going to go down (at times, oh-so literally!). Anyway, the next time someone asks me how she sleeps, I don't think I'll play along and tone it down; "oh, you know, she's alright, we're getting there" blah blah, next time I might actually say that yeah, she sleeps like a baby, funnily enough. If the Good Nights Sleep gods want to strike me down for that, so be it. I'm aware that the Bears sleep could become rather shitful in the blink of an eye...even more reason to enjoy it all now I reckon.
Also, she is a great eater, and a kind and merciful supreme overlord of the universe, thank-you very much for asking ;)
As a parent, people often ask a lot of questions. You know the ones - "Are they a good eater/sleeper/future overlord of the universe?". I actually don't have so much of an issue with these questions as a lot of people do. I'll happily chat about my baby to whoever will listen, (think, pulling out pics on my iPhone and showing randoms in line at the supermarket...yeah, I'm one of those brands o' crazy). My issue is that I feel like the minute I actually tell the truth about my daughters sleeping habits, I'll somehow jinx it. So I'm going to stop living in fear and just come out and say it; my daughter is an awesome sleeper. She's been sleeping pretty much through the night since she was about 5 weeks old, it's usually pretty safe to assume that she'll go down for eight or nine hours. And she naps pretty well during the day too. But here's the thing, I have never been hung up on how much she sleeps. What's that sweetheart, you'd prefer to wake every hour and a half and scream at me? Okay, that's cool, do your thing. What, now you're sleeping from 9-6? Yeah, that's cool too baby! I haven't ever (nor will I ever) tried CIO, feeding on a schedule, nothing like that. We're kinda hippies, you see. We have coslept from birth, demand fed and generally let the Bear decide how and when shit was going to go down (at times, oh-so literally!). Anyway, the next time someone asks me how she sleeps, I don't think I'll play along and tone it down; "oh, you know, she's alright, we're getting there" blah blah, next time I might actually say that yeah, she sleeps like a baby, funnily enough. If the Good Nights Sleep gods want to strike me down for that, so be it. I'm aware that the Bears sleep could become rather shitful in the blink of an eye...even more reason to enjoy it all now I reckon.
Also, she is a great eater, and a kind and merciful supreme overlord of the universe, thank-you very much for asking ;)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)