The first? She had her first messy taste of rice cereal.
Here she is pre-feeding, looking all pretty and sweet.
She spit out most of what we gave her, unsure of how to swallow the bland gruel, but she seemed to improve a little by the end.
Baylor, seemingly unsure of how to deal with his little sister sitting in his high chair and getting loads of attention, acted out a little bit, but overall he was a very good boy.
The aftermath.
Still a happy little girl! Whew!
And so the morning pumping begins. I can't say I much enjoy the process, but I know it's good for my kiddo so I'm willing to do it. Plus, now that I have an electric pump, things go much quicker and my hands don't hurt afterwards. Gotta look on the bright side, right?So, the second change?
Crying it out. Ughhhh.
After her appointment this past Monday, we realized it was time for her to learn to sleep on her own. It didn't work Monday night as she was in the throws of post-vaccination discomfort, and the nights after we only tried half-heartedly. But last night we got our acts together, buckled down, and let her cry. It was awful, but she seemed to get the hang of it at least a little bit. What'd we end up doing? Well, after a good deal of searching by my husband, we decided to try the Ferber method, as succinctly described here. Our pediatrician wanted us to just let her absolutely cry herself to sleep without going in there at all, but I just couldn't do that.
It worked well, though we did touch her a couple times during the night; once or twice to put in a binky, and once to change a thoroughly soaked diaper that was certainly keeping her up. And she still loved us in the morning! Ah woo hoo!
And she still wanted to take her morning nap near me, so I guess that's a good sign, right?
Yeah, it might not have been such a stellar idea to introduce so much at once, but she seemed to take it all in stride. We are so lucky to have a happy, healthy little lady! Wish us luck on the rest of sleep training!
1 comment:
Good luck with the sleep training! We started with Topher when he was maybe 7 weeks old ~ he'd go to sleep on his own with very little crying, it was great! But last week he got his vaccinations and good bye sleep training. Now he wants to be rocked and cuddled and he refuses to settle ... we're going to try to let him "cry it out" again this weekend, to get him back on his schedule. But it hurts my heart!
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