sleep stuff

[mamajoan]

I wouldn't go so far as to say that our sleep problems are solved, but things have been better the last few nights. After a couple of weeks in which getting Isaac to sleep was a huge battle every night, what has been working the last few nights is that instead of leaving his room immediately after I put him in the crib, I sit on the floor next to the crib and read a book (with a flashlight). Generally, he goes to sleep pretty quickly when I do this, and then I can sneak out. (Although if I misjudge how deeply asleep he is, the creaking of floorboards as I leave will wake him and we have to do it all over again. And the floorboards in his room are VERY creaky.)

So, that's working out okay. I also put the railing back on his crib. I had removed it, thinking (I don't know why; in my sleep-deprived haze one night this seemed to make sense) that it might help. It didn't, and he kept falling out of bed, which obviously wasn't working out. So I put it back on.

It still isn't the best solution, and I still generally have to wait until he's falling apart and a total mess from tiredness before I start his bedtime routine. But it's better than what we had been dealing with. And I'm learning a lot about the Marx Brothers, as the book I've been reading by his bedside is a biography of Groucho. Someone gave it to me ages ago, but I've only now cracked it open. It's some interesting stuff.

And on that comical note, bedtime for me.

Comments

[mofic.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's a little better. If you want more Marx brothers reading, Harpo's autobiography, Harpo Speaks, is quite good.