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ou realize you could bounce and shriek with delight we are very ready to move out of this tiny apartment so we can expand your activity toy selection you also picked out a toy lion ironically named rory while we were shopping at tj maxx and you love to squeeze and chew on her while riding in the car you also spotted a bright orange mama baby fox stuffed toy set at ikea and favor those everywhere we go you smile and flirt with anyone in sight people love to talk to you and always say how beautiful you are and many times they mistake you for a girl in spite of my best efforts to dress you in clearly masculine outfits you love to check out people in restaurants and make eye contact with anyone who glances your way we have braved several restaurant outings this month with varying degrees of cooperation i imagine once you re a bit bigger you ll enjoy sitting in the high chair and having a meal with us since sleep training at 5 months we haven t had too many hiccups or regressions you were sleeping from 6 p m 7 a m like clockwork until we switched to formula you had a week were no matter what sort of macgyvering we attempting with night time diapers and liners you were soaked through and waking up at 4 45 every morning for a week i spent hours poring over forums online looking for the holy grail of heavy wetters and finally tried a cloth diaper it worked like a charm and we haven t looked back except we re still trying to break the 4 45 a m habit i d settle for 6 a m but 4 30 is a bit much you ve also greatly improved in settling yourself for a nap at 2 hours of wake time i put you in a sleep sack and briefly cuddle and sing to you and you ll usually fall asleep within 10 minutes without much protest gone are the days of fussing for what seemed like an eternity lately you ll wake after 25 minutes but i let you settle back down and you ll typically nap for another hour or more thank goodness for our video monitor or i d constantly go in to get you too soon it s completely surreal that you are more than half a year old i know i ll say this in every letter and probably every year of your life but i can t believe how quickly time passes and i can t imagine my life without you you re the best little sidekick i could ask for love you forever always mama nicknames gray grammy boo boo peanut boo boo squirt likes eating solid foods holding your bottle laying on your back and kicking flailing all limbs and laughing jumperoo practicing standing and sitting chewing on fingers cuddles remote controls watching the cats baths sucking on the washcloth dislikes long car rides changing clothes being out of sight of mom dad empty bottles skills scooting backward standing jumping reaching for objects practicing pincher grasp learned when objects are behind in front of inside etc like when i m distracting him from an empty bottle or he s craning his neck to look for lola on the ground beside the rocker 5 months january 23 2013 january 23 2013 nicole leave a comment dear graham i can hardly believe that you are 5 months old i know that i have said that the past few months and will likely continue to say it as the days weeks months keep whizzing past i was watching videos of you at two and three months last night and cannot believe how much you ve changed you re a little boy now not a wobbly tiny newborn you have such a happy personality and love to smile and coo at everyone you see after months of colic and fussiness you are only truly unhappy at nap time and when you are hungry can t blame you for that you always demand to have a clear view of the room you love to survey your surroundings tracking the pesky cats with your eyes just wait until you can crawl following daddy s voice from the kitchen and watching everything recently you ll sit on my lap and focus intently on my face grabbing for my mouth or nose or studying a design on my shirt your face is so expressive i can t take enough pictures of you to freeze all of our moments together i ve become that mom who is completely consumed with her sweet baby you are rolling every which way like a pro i love to watch you push up on your tummy and smile widely with pride lately you ve started talking and babbling when in your swing or in the morning while you wake up you have so much to say and i am coaxing you to say mama you are very interested in watching mommy and daddy eat you re only a short month away from being able to try solid foods yourself i m excited to watch you try new tastes and textures but treasure our time together while you eat there is such a strong bond formed by nursing and while it is sometimes challenging i know 6 months short term goal and then 12 months stretch goal will be here before i know it i hope you like avocados and sweet potatoes like your mommy and aren t a picky eater like daddy maybe you ll surprise us and love peas this month you learned how to sleep in your own room in your big crib and put yourself to sleep we are so proud of you and truly didn t expect that our frequent night waker would suddenly sleep 12 13 hours each night i try to get you to nap three times a day though i m usually happy if you consent to two some days you go along with it and other times you roll around and chew on your jammies until nap time is over it is definitely a work in progress we start bedtime around 5 30 by 6 30 you re in bed and sleeping without so much as a peep and usually don t wake again until 7 15 amazing what a difference a month and sleep training can make we are all much happier and well rested daddy just got a new job and we are going to pack up and move to a brand new place in a brand new town it s strange to think that the next house we live in will be where you will learn to sit up crawl and perhaps take your first steps love you forever and always mama nicknames gray grammy boo boo likes freddie the firefly chewing on everything petting the kitties sophie the giraffe playing on the floor swinging talking diaper changes always make you laugh cuddles being carried around by daddy lots of kisses things that crinkle putting your toes in your mouth baths dislikes car rides though an ipad with yo gabba gabba seems to help we ve had a few successful car rides this month hoping it s a trend nap time changing your clothes having mommy and daddy out of sight loud upstairs neighbors waking you up skills self soothing rolling front to back back to front trying to do crunches standing grabbing toys moving all around but not crawling yet sleep training part 1 days 1 5 january 10 2013 march 21 2013 nicole leave a comment since birth graham has struggled with sleeping due to his excessive fussiness colic he spent all of his naps in our arms and only knew how to fall asleep with a swaddle while being rocked sometimes with a binky additionally as new parents we didn t know better than to put him into the cozy cocoon of the newborn napper part of the pack n play while it was comforting and handy for a newborn he became dependent on slightly elevated sleeping and refused to sleep in his crib for the past 4 5 months graham has slept at the most 7 hours at night but after the dreaded 4 month sleep regression it was more like 2 3 hours all night long i was exhausted and my nerves were wearing thin suddenly all of our old soothing tricks didn t work and getting him to sleep became a nightmare and was becoming increasingly lengthy enter sleep training in my quest to figure out how to help graham learn to self soothe i read all the big names in infant sleep ferber hogg pantley karp and weissbluth i pored over blogs and forums in search of someone with a child of similar temperament to graham my son will cry at the top of his lungs for the entire 45 minute drive to my parents house without missing a beat the horror stories on the forums recounted 10 whole minutes of crying before the baby fell asleep that was not my child i was convinced that attempting cry it out would result in a few nights of endless hours of screaming without improvement oh and i can t forget to mention all the helpful people on baby sleep forums brow beating sleep deprived parents who have tried everything saying that they are child abusers for using the let cry method that s extraordinarily helpful while i m frantically searching for help i believe that cry it out can be an effective method and we monitored graham with our video monitor if he needed our help we wouldn t have hesitated but in short he was pissed off that he didn t know how to fall asleep without his props i don t know that i could have taken the approach of put the baby in bed at 7 p m and don t open the door until 7 a m but that is each parent s decision and i respect that first things first the schedule a few months ago i began to organize graham s day according to the easy schedule this seemed to be a common thread between all sorts of sleep training guides it s simple eat activity sleep you this way i was breaking the cycle of nursing sleep graham has only napped in my arms and i was lucky to get him past his 20 45 minute sleep cycles and resettled an hour nap was a major feat he could be completely asleep mouth agape and the moment i placed him into his napper his eyes popped open so every day i spent hours rocking and holding my breath that a muscle twitch wouldn t wake him up i spent a particularly awful 6 day stretch with graham while travis worked a long rotation and had literally come to an impasse as guilty and terrible as i felt about trying cry it out i knew that i was not being a good mother graham was overtired with circles under his eyes and our family had to make a change i had already moved his pack n play from our room to his nursery the week prior and he didn t seem to mind in fact i think he was sleeping better and we were thrilled at the prospect of going to bed without tiptoeing and worrying that rustling the duvet would disturb graham i decided to go about unswaddling and sleeping in the big crib all at once with the self soothing graham had just learned to roll both ways and his days being swaddled were over on saturday night we gave ourselves a pep talk and were ready for a few hours of wailing we set off to bunker down in the bedroom to catch up on dvr without disturbing graham he cried for 5 minutes fussed for 15 and then was asleep we looked at the monitor in disbelief was he alive he had flipped to his tummy and was sleeping practically face down in the mattress we had been ready for an eternal battle only to find graham was clearly ready for this don t get me wrong we re on day 5 and still having major struggles during the day everything i d read said that night time sleep training happens first and then day time sleep takes some time to work itself out as i m typing graham is fussing and trying to settle for his second nap of the day listening to him cry is still torture every time but yesterday afternoon after skipping two naps graham surprised us by falling asleep after nearly an hour of fussing for 2 5 hours and he took a fourth nap lasting an hour last night he went to bed without a peep we heard him wake up at 10 15 but since it hadn t been four hours between feedings i decided to watch the monitor and see if he could put himself back to sleep he did and then slept nearly 13 hours he has never done that before the best part he woke up talking and cooing this morning he succumbed to a morning nap for the first time since we began and after 52 minutes of fussing he slept for over an hour i think the most important thing regarding sleep and nap training is consistency and guidelines we set clear parameters so there would be no debate in the wee hours of the morning where desperation usually takes over we agreed that he if woke up before 4 hours between feedings he needed to go back to sleep without intervention at nap time he was to stay in the crib for an hour to cry or sleep or both more than once he s gotten to the last ten minutes of his hour and conked out it takes a lot of self control to let him cry but his progress reaffirms that what we re doing is working i definitely couldn t imagine going through sleep training without a video monitor i m certainly glad i insisted on getting the top of the line model so we can move the camera without going into the room graham moves all over the crib and i have peace of mind that i constantly have an eye and ear on him travis goes back to work on saturday so i ll keep my fingers crossed that night sleep continues to go well i swear graham can sense when travis is gone and always ends up fussier than usual that s all for now but i ll update as we continue with sleep training 3 months november 26 2012 nicole leave a comment i m sure i will never stop saying this but i have no idea where the past three months went our tiny newborn is officially a baby he s such a little boy now with a budding personality the past few months has been the most difficult thing i ve ever been through being a mother is so rewarding but i had no idea how challenging it would be beyond the sleepless nights it seems like every week presents a new challenge and i find myself searching the internet or quizzing friends about a new question graham is definitely not an easy baby he was extremely fussy colicky and cried and refused to nap or sleep for weeks on end all he wanted to do was either nurse or comfort nurse i felt like i was captive and stuck on the couch trying to leave the house was and still is a source of anxiety for me since he absolutely hates the car seat we have the baby that loathes all of the things that normal babies love car rides bouncy seat being anywhere but our arms the one piece of advice that i wish someone had told me before the baby is this start as you mean to go on everyone i talked to said that we couldn t spoil a newborn and to do whatever worked for the first 4 6 months unfortunately while that is partially true imo we didn t set ourselves or graham up for success by holding him all the time now he s 12 weeks old and has to fall asleep while being held rocked with a binky swaddle white noise part of that has to do with him having reflux and our pediatrician encouraging us to not stress out too much about holding him for naps and bedtime but i wonder if we d started him out sleeping in the crib without all of the sleep crutches if we d be faced with these issues today i guess we ll know for the next baby around six weeks i scoured the internet and every baby sleep book i could get my hands on and finally began to implement the easy method as a way to organize his daily activities since then we ve had some success with regular naps though short and in my arms and fairly predictable night sleeps i generally put him to bed around 8 p m and he ll go about 5 6 sometimes a blissful 8 hours before his first night feeding then he ll wake for the day around 7 a m if he doesn t sneak in one more early morning feeding in the past two weeks graham has been working 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