Anyone who knows me knows that I am not good at following a "schedule." I'm definitely a planner, but not a scheduler. And you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I am the old dog. I guess the caveat to having a baby at 38 is needing to change everything that I have done up until now. Babies need a schedule, and I'm learning this. Now that I no longer have a newborn it's time to become the enforcer. I have to figure out a schedule for Eliseo, learn how to stick to it and not to second guess my decisions. I've been trying to enforce a consistent bedtime, and again there have been tears but I'm starting to see the progress. For the last few nights I've put him in the bedroom and haven't let myself go back into it until he's asleep. We started this process with 2 hours of crying. Its so heartbreaking!! 3 days later, he's down to an hour of crying and then he stops. Not that he's sleeping, he just entertains himself. We have a video monitor so we watch him play, eat his feet, roll around...not falling asleep for a while but it seems like good progress that he realized we aren't going respond to the crying. Now hopefully he will start falling asleep quicker with less or no tears. But I'll take it, its so much better than listening to him cry. I'm going to try to be strong and hope the rewards follow soon.
On the food front, he had his 4th day of avocados today. So tomorrow we start sweet potatoes. Cereal down, bananas down, avocados down, sweet potatoes made. Apples next. And I'm still nursing at least 6 times a day. My pediatrician Dr Oswald says I should start giving him some water so he learns to like it too.
Below are pics: awesome toy Jessie loaned us and my batch of sweet potatoes. Lovin my baby bullet!
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