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I feel like i should give you all some good news for a change :-)

mcatmaymcatmay member
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... since i'm always posting about something just as i'm hyperventilating and breathing into a paper bag. So, here it is, finally some good news.... drumroll please.... WE ARE SLEEPING AT NIGHT!!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!!!

I feel like i can say this now because it's been two weeks (just watch me completely jinx myself). As i was angsting over CIO (remember how the pedi had given me the green light on this?), bought a video monitor to evaluate the girl a bit more...all of a sudden, like a switch, she just decided to only wake up twice a night. I don't know if she heard us talking and decided to toe the line ;-) or whether she just was developmentally ready. Each time she wakes up, she is legitimately hungry and i have no qualms about getting up for those times. I'm so lucky to have an amazing kid, seeing as i'm completely neurotic. Thank God for my laid-back hubby to be a calming influence and voice of reason to us all... and thank God for you ladies to tell me to stop talking crazy ;-)

Now, if we could just get over that damn nursing strike that she's decided to do just when mom returns to work... Moms of two kiddos, please tell me that you worry a little less with the second one (lie to me if you have to because my poor husband may also tear his hair out if he has to hear about the 'latest concern' with further kiddos!!!) 

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Re: I feel like i should give you all some good news for a change :-)

  • northernvabridenorthernvabride member
    Yay for sleep.  That is fantastic.  And as a mom of two (soon to be 3), I worried much less the second time around because I knew so much more about what was going on and what to expect.  Fingers crossed she ends her nursing strike soon too. 
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  • Jitterbug2668Jitterbug2668 member
    LOL thats great news... but I have no words of encouragement.  I'm freakin the eff out at the 2 kids.  Artslvr is my inspiration!
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  • veruca5839veruca5839 member
    That's great!  Sleep is SO wonderful :)
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  • LindseyJWLindseyJW member

    YAY!!!!! sleep, wonderful sleep!!! i just posted about this last week. my 15mo FINALLY started STTN and it is the most fantastic thing ever!!!

    yes, the second one gets away with murder, has far fewer rules and mom and dad care far less about what kind of trouble they are getting into!  

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  • tracy042206tracy042206

    Yay!  They are always changing things up on you that first year and sometimes it is for the better.

     And yes you are more laid back with #2.  I really did not obsess over Molly's sleep like I did with Maggie, she got what she got and I facilitated as much as possible but I didn't freak out over it like I did with Maggie. 

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  • umdbrideumdbride
    Yay!  and I really hope so with #2, otherwise I think we'd all lose our minds!
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  • 2vthokies2vthokies
    That's awesome.  And yes, you worry less.  Or maybe it's not that you worry less, but you have a bit of experience under your belt so you can take the long view and you know things won't last forever.  You also know more so you can process things more easily.
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  • lylahlovelylahlove member
    That's great! Sleep definitely makes for a happy mama :)
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