Sometimes I leave him on the floor a while before bath or while I fetch clean clothes. He travels a fair distance. The following photo shows where I found him 5 minutes later - he started out on the patchwork changing mat.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Baby in Motion
Diaper change is becoming Wren's time of high-activity. We change him on the floor in the corridor (since Dad visited and we were using Wren's room as a guest room) which is pretty excellent considering how he likes to roll away. The moment his diaper is off he flips sideways.
Sometimes I leave him on the floor a while before bath or while I fetch clean clothes. He travels a fair distance. The following photo shows where I found him 5 minutes later - he started out on the patchwork changing mat.
Sometimes I leave him on the floor a while before bath or while I fetch clean clothes. He travels a fair distance. The following photo shows where I found him 5 minutes later - he started out on the patchwork changing mat.
Morning Walks
The only advantage in waking up so early is that there is time for Wren and I to take a walk at my favorite time of day - when the light is still gentle and you can have both the sun and cool breeze.
This morning, I put Wren on my hip (leaving the expletives for the bedroom) and headed for the coffee machine. Woe was me when I found that all the ground coffee was finished. Its too noisy to grind more coffee in the dawning day because there is one thing worse than Wren up before 6am and that's Wren and Frost up before 6am. Instead, I got dressed and put Wren in the stroller and headed off for the Grateful Bread coffee house and bakery. It opens at 7am to an exclusive clientelle of dog walkers, commuters heading for buses and mothers with babies.
Wren chewed his teething toy the whole way which confirms my suspicion he is cutting another tooth. I shall try Tylenol tonight and see if he wakes less frequently. I admired and envied gardens along my route - the vegetable gardens seem far more advanced than ours - tomatoe bushes are huge, artichokes fully formed, blueberries clustering over the pathway and rhubarb that towers like a rainforest canopy.
As always, I clucked my tongue at the McMansions being squeezed onto every leveled lot and launched a silent diatribe at a man who arrived at one carrying a role of plans. "How can you be responsible for this monstrosity?" That one looked like a penitentiary with a maple outside. It was for people who need a huge room for each activity and a master bath that doubles as a day spa. Wren was content to grab leaves and try and chew rosepetals I suggested he sniff. He doesn't want to live in a McMansion either.
Frost was still not awake when we returned because of his terrible night but when I woke him he staggered out. He has been playing a game in which he piles monster trucks and waits for Wren to knock the pile over.
This morning, I put Wren on my hip (leaving the expletives for the bedroom) and headed for the coffee machine. Woe was me when I found that all the ground coffee was finished. Its too noisy to grind more coffee in the dawning day because there is one thing worse than Wren up before 6am and that's Wren and Frost up before 6am. Instead, I got dressed and put Wren in the stroller and headed off for the Grateful Bread coffee house and bakery. It opens at 7am to an exclusive clientelle of dog walkers, commuters heading for buses and mothers with babies.
Wren chewed his teething toy the whole way which confirms my suspicion he is cutting another tooth. I shall try Tylenol tonight and see if he wakes less frequently. I admired and envied gardens along my route - the vegetable gardens seem far more advanced than ours - tomatoe bushes are huge, artichokes fully formed, blueberries clustering over the pathway and rhubarb that towers like a rainforest canopy.
As always, I clucked my tongue at the McMansions being squeezed onto every leveled lot and launched a silent diatribe at a man who arrived at one carrying a role of plans. "How can you be responsible for this monstrosity?" That one looked like a penitentiary with a maple outside. It was for people who need a huge room for each activity and a master bath that doubles as a day spa. Wren was content to grab leaves and try and chew rosepetals I suggested he sniff. He doesn't want to live in a McMansion either.
Frost was still not awake when we returned because of his terrible night but when I woke him he staggered out. He has been playing a game in which he piles monster trucks and waits for Wren to knock the pile over.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Night Weaning?
Here is the copy of my 4.00am post to the Sleep Training Discussion Board. It is now 6.08am and I have been up for 15 minutes. Wren thinks its great.
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My mood is probably due to the fact I have been awake since 2.30am and probably will get an hour more sleep if I am lucky. The past week, Wren wakes and cries a few times a night and resettles himself. Since he is in our room I wake and don't resettle as easily (although I am quieter about it). Finally, at 4am I nurse him and then he wakes at 5am and 5.30 and is pretty much up at 6am. That means I barely sleep from 4am on.
He goes to bed quietly at 7.30pm (taking 3 1 hour+ naps).
He rouses sometimes around 9.30pm, cries and settles quickly.
He wakes around/after midnight-1am and I nurse him.
Again 2-3ish (resettles himself)
2.30 - 5 year old woken by baby comes into room
3am - 5 year old kicking and rolling wakes Wren.
3.30 - I take 5 year old back to his room where he says he has a sore leg. Give Tylenol.
4ish again Wren wakes.
4-5ish I nurse him for a short while (4 mins). Put him in crib. He is pissed off at the short nursing.
Resettles in 5 minutes loud crying.
Will probably wake in one hour.
I want to night wean him immediately, right now, before I move out and join a colony of mothers who gave up on sleep training and hit the road. I am so utterly fed up with him at night.
I have the idea (wrong or not?) that he has no idea when he gets to eat at night and so wakes every time and cries a bit to check whether this is the time he gets to eat. My only solution is NONE. Is there another way?
Please share night weaning experiences because I fear I am about to embark on it in a spirit of frustration and do it the hard way.
Shannon
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My mood is probably due to the fact I have been awake since 2.30am and probably will get an hour more sleep if I am lucky. The past week, Wren wakes and cries a few times a night and resettles himself. Since he is in our room I wake and don't resettle as easily (although I am quieter about it). Finally, at 4am I nurse him and then he wakes at 5am and 5.30 and is pretty much up at 6am. That means I barely sleep from 4am on.
He goes to bed quietly at 7.30pm (taking 3 1 hour+ naps).
He rouses sometimes around 9.30pm, cries and settles quickly.
He wakes around/after midnight-1am and I nurse him.
Again 2-3ish (resettles himself)
2.30 - 5 year old woken by baby comes into room
3am - 5 year old kicking and rolling wakes Wren.
3.30 - I take 5 year old back to his room where he says he has a sore leg. Give Tylenol.
4ish again Wren wakes.
4-5ish I nurse him for a short while (4 mins). Put him in crib. He is pissed off at the short nursing.
Resettles in 5 minutes loud crying.
Will probably wake in one hour.
I want to night wean him immediately, right now, before I move out and join a colony of mothers who gave up on sleep training and hit the road. I am so utterly fed up with him at night.
I have the idea (wrong or not?) that he has no idea when he gets to eat at night and so wakes every time and cries a bit to check whether this is the time he gets to eat. My only solution is NONE. Is there another way?
Please share night weaning experiences because I fear I am about to embark on it in a spirit of frustration and do it the hard way.
Shannon
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Pushing up
Just a quick note. Today I noticed that when Wren is on his belly he pushes up with straight arms. This means that he is lifting his belly off the floor! His legs are still straight so its not a crawling position but it is a step in that direction!!
He pushes up with straight arms and wriggles, then topples over. He moves a great distance like this. While Frost and I were watching Star Wars and Wren was having tummy time he moved from right by my legs to right underneath the coffee table.... about a yard away. He also peed (it was naked tummy time with a towel under him) but he peed when he was on his back and the pee shot right off the towel and landed on a plate!!
I don't have a picture of that!
He pushes up with straight arms and wriggles, then topples over. He moves a great distance like this. While Frost and I were watching Star Wars and Wren was having tummy time he moved from right by my legs to right underneath the coffee table.... about a yard away. He also peed (it was naked tummy time with a towel under him) but he peed when he was on his back and the pee shot right off the towel and landed on a plate!!
I don't have a picture of that!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Slightly sick
Wren has a head cold. I suspect it is the virus Frost had last week and we'll just have to hope it only lasts a few days. He has a crusty blocked nose and has a lot of trouble staying asleep - last night he woke hourly for a small cry and a few larger wakings. He wanted to get up at 5.15 and I only managed to get another hour out of him after 45 minutes of "playing" in bed.
I hope he goes back to better sleep afterwards but for now, we trust in tylenol and soothe him when he is really upset.
Today, I bought a new carseat for Wren (on craigslist). Its a Britax Roundabout convertible carseat. He has graduated from his infant carseat due to being about 20lbs. Its less convenient but I think he will enjoy riding a bit more upright and higher up. Perhaps he won't fall asleep as quickly.
I hope he goes back to better sleep afterwards but for now, we trust in tylenol and soothe him when he is really upset.
Today, I bought a new carseat for Wren (on craigslist). Its a Britax Roundabout convertible carseat. He has graduated from his infant carseat due to being about 20lbs. Its less convenient but I think he will enjoy riding a bit more upright and higher up. Perhaps he won't fall asleep as quickly.
But what if I don't like yams?
After a lot of thought Wren was offered yams as his almost-first food. I say almost first because he had lurched forward and gnawed off some pieces of banana a week ago. He was then offered banana and ate a bit.
Yams were the OFFICIAL first food, with a few drops of La Sante iron. He ate a few spoonfuls and then this happened:
It was very intentional. He would work hard to gum and then spit it out. Since then he has refused to swallow much yam (with or without iron). I have moved onto a bit of avocado which he prefers and loves to suck off a spoon. Next, we plan to give him some squash and then pear puree. I think he will like pears.
He appears to like the taste of onions. He loves to gnaw the juicy (oniony) end of garlic sprouts.
Yams were the OFFICIAL first food, with a few drops of La Sante iron. He ate a few spoonfuls and then this happened:
It was very intentional. He would work hard to gum and then spit it out. Since then he has refused to swallow much yam (with or without iron). I have moved onto a bit of avocado which he prefers and loves to suck off a spoon. Next, we plan to give him some squash and then pear puree. I think he will like pears.
He appears to like the taste of onions. He loves to gnaw the juicy (oniony) end of garlic sprouts.
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