Sleep

Within my group of mums with similar age babies, Eden is definitely towards the bottom of the league regarding sleep and heading for the relegation zone! We all think it is a bit of breast vs bottle (with bottle-fed babies seeming to sleep through way earlier). I have become obsessed with sleep. Sleep is the thing we all want our babies to master. I log day and night sleep times, only to discover that there is no pattern and logic. Last night we tried letting Eden cry it out - i.e. ignore her crying when she wakes up. The logic being that this will break the pattern of night waking, fancying some breast milk and then going back to sleep after a feed. We did what you are supposed to do. Simon got up and offered he some juice. Like she was going to be fooled by that. I don't think so. She cries more when we go to her, although the health visitors tell us to 'go and pat her off to sleep' at night. We lasted 45 minutes and caved in. Thus making the whole sorry palaver a waste of time. Even more scary is that my No Cry Sleep Solution book makes it clear that many babies continue to wake 2 or 3 times a night up until 12 months. At least. It doesn't help that she is still in our room, since we cannot sell our 2 bed flat. We have tried. The second bedroom is my office. She has no nursery. Yet. On a more positive note, she is becoming ever more adorable. She says 'dada' although she has no idea who or what dada is. It is just a thrill to hear her making sounds. She will be crawling soon. Having mastered putting weight on her hands, getting to grips with forward motion cannot be too far away. I will look back with dewey-eyed nostalgia for the times I could put her somewhere and leave her, I am sure. There is a very small photo of her new teeth in the photo album, I have not managed to position it as part of my posts yet.