These last few weeks have been very eventful. Too eventful if I think about it. I was in the US for a week just before the birthday party of my two eldest. The jet lag didn’t get me but a late night on Friday due to crying baby, the 7 hours long concert at Wembley on Saturday and the 60…
Category: Sleep
Pick up, put down
This is possibly one of the hardest techniques I used with the kids. Hardest on me, because I have a bad back. It’s Tracey Hogg’s technique and it’s used to curb baby manipulation at sleep times. You can use it from about 4 months old onwards. For those times when baby cries in bed, the technique is such that you…
I’ll stay for a minute
Right around the time Mr A was 1 year old and Miss Z was 3, she started wanting me to stay with her until she fell asleep. I don’t know if it was because she started feeling that Mr A had a lot more attention all of a sudden. Our bedtime routine had been the same for a long time.…
The end of the afternoon nap… bring on Special Playtime
When my daughter was about 2½ years old, she no longer wanted to have an afternoon nap. She started crying every time I took her upstairs and was very strong in her resolve that she didn’t want to sleep. I was on maternity leave at the time with Mr A. He was 6 months old and he had a long…
Baby manipulation? Let them cry – but only for 1 minute
I am not sure if I got this idea from anywhere or if I made it up. When Miss Z was a bit older (probably around 10 months, but I can’t be sure), I started having trouble with putting her to sleep at night. She would cry as soon as I left the bedside. To start I just stayed a…
The land of Zzzzzz…
I have a very strong view about sleeping, mainly because I love sleeping. So it was important for me to get the kids onto a good sleeping routine from the start. I know my method is strict and that most people don’t do it like me. And I have no problem with that. I will share anyway because I figure…
Eight hours of beauty sleep
You come home from hospital with your bundle of joy and what you know is that you have to feed your baby every 3 hours. What this invariably means is that you will need to feed him at least once in the middle of the night. I struggled with this big time. I’m one of those people that need 8…
Wake to what?
According to Tracy Hogg, children (and apparently adults too) have sleep cycles of more or less 45 minutes. After the first few days of being a sleepy blob, babies tend to wake up after these short naps. As a Mom, you can do one of two things – you can go to your baby and get him up OR you…
Like this during the day, like that during the night
Miss Z was born around 4pm. They say that babies that are born during the day don’t sleep at night… I have no idea is that’s true, but the fact of the matter is that after 48 hours of practically no sleep at night, I was pulling my hair out. Thankfully, my Mom was around and we took shifts. The…