Was this some sort of bizarre teacher roast?
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Jun 28, 2005 7:57:23 am PDT #7378 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aims - Jun 28, 2005 8:45:28 am PDT #7379 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Please, Goddess and moms...why isn't Em sleeping through anymore? Why does she wake anywhere from 12-3 am and want to play??
Emily - Jun 28, 2005 8:45:57 am PDT #7380 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So the cable guy actually came in the first half-hour of his two-hour window! Though to keep up the cable-guy tradition, he buzzed just as I'd gone into the bathroom. But he fixed the cable! Then he teted it on some soap operas. But then he left it on a movie that I identified in 20 seconds as being Satisfaction! Early (1988!) Julia Roberts as a supporting cast member, starring Justine Bateman, with Liam Neeson as broken-down older man music industry veteran.
The sprinkles contain monosodium glutamate.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 28, 2005 8:51:56 am PDT #7381 of 10001
What is even happening?
Aimee, what do you do with her (other than make faces behind her back) when she wakes? Do you think you're doing anything she could construe as a reward for waking, then?
Also--is she teething? Do you dope her up before she goes to sleep (with baby Tylenol or orajel, or something)?
Aims - Jun 28, 2005 8:53:55 am PDT #7382 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
When she wakes, we try to put her back down in her crib, but then she gets back up again screaming. So, we end up bringing her to bed with us in the hopes that she falls asleep again so we can put her back in her crib. This isn't working anymore. Now, she wants to play. Sometimes a bottle gets her to sleep. Sometimes, it doesn't.
Letting her cry it out would be ideal, but when she's in our room, it's hard.
Aims - Jun 28, 2005 8:56:04 am PDT #7383 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Also, we've been getting her on a bedtime routine so she knows when it's bedtime and it was going well and it went to shit when she was sick.
flea - Jun 28, 2005 8:56:43 am PDT #7384 of 10001
information libertarian
I have no advice on baby sleep. I prayed to the magic sleep fairies for 18 months before I got some relief, and I'm still up at 3 am several nights a week. You wanna talk about bad mommies...
Okay, I do have a piece of advice. Ear plugs.
P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2005 8:58:18 am PDT #7385 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Aimee, are you keeping track of how long you wait from when she wakes up until you go and fetch her? We're following the "wait 5 minutes to see if she settles" rule, and it seems to work fairly well. If she's going to settle, it will happen in those 5 minutes, and if it doesn't, we're doomed.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 28, 2005 9:01:25 am PDT #7386 of 10001
What is even happening?
Letting her cry it out would be ideal, but when she's in our room, it's hard.Yeah, and when you both (or even one of you) have to work in the morning, it's not like you can afford to be toast. We always tried to try new sleep things on the weekends, preferably long weekends. Besides, there's only so long you can do the let-them-cry-it-out thing, before you start to feel cruel.
Also, we've been getting her on a bedtime routine so she knows when it's bedtime and it was going well and it went to shit when she was sick.
Ugh. That happens a lot. It also probably just means it's mostly habit with her and that you can get it back with some work.
Aims - Jun 28, 2005 9:02:57 am PDT #7387 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee, are you keeping track of how long you wait from when she wakes up until you go and fetch her?
We do. Sometimes it works, it hasn't been the past couple of nights. Mind you, this is just a couple of nights old, but I want to nip it in the bud before it gets to be a bigger problem.