White Knuckle Parenting: Sleeping Like a Baby
All parents know that "sleeping like a baby" means that you are grumpy and tired, and that you sleep in 90-minute chunks of time. It's too bad sleep issues don't disappear when cribs do.
If you've ever had a conversation with a new mom, chances are probably about a hundred percent that you talked about how the baby is sleeping and how tired the new mom is. This is because newborns are jerks and can't sleep through the night and new moms are exhausted and just want to take a nap. Next time you start talking about sleep to a new mom, stop yourself, ask if you can take her baby, and tell her to go take a nap instead of telling you how much she wants to go take a nap. Wake her up as soon as the baby gets annoying. (That's the great thing about not having a newborn.) The thing is that once babies leave newborn stage, moms don't stop talking about sleep. My kids are 7, 9, and 11 and I still think about their sleep skills all the…
Jean Winegardner
11:06 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Oh, Gayle, that sounds horrible. Not being able to comfort your child sounds so, so traumatic. Your poor girl. And poor you. more ›