Everyday my little Jonathan gets happier and happierI've been working on getting him to sleep in his crib.. what a difficult thing! He cries and cries, despite being SOOO tired. He loves sleeping in his swing, or in my arms, but I feel like he is getting too use to this. I know they say you can't spoil a baby, but I've been questioning that lately and have come to conclude that.. YOU CAN. I get so many different opinions from others on what i should be doing.. don't let him cry... let him cry it out... don't use the pacifier...the pacifiers OK...and on and on. I've been overwhelmed with advice, and with all the information I've read in books... and frankly, I'm sick of it all. I'm not going to sweat it anymore. I'm going to find a system that works for us... and stick with it. When I try to live up to others expectations and try to strive for what the books tell me, I'm only left frustrated and expecting more from my baby that I should. As long as what I'm doing works for me, Nathan and Jonathan, then I'm happy! This doesn't mean that I won't ask for advice, opinions, or just freak out at anyone who tells me anything, it just means that I may or may not take that advice... and if I don't, I'm not going to feel guilty about it.
:) I've been seriously considering trying something like this with Levi, but I'm still too scared! I'll see how Jonathan does:)
ReplyDeletehe took a pretty good nap in his crib today... i did give him the pacifier, and I only went in 3 times in the 2 1/2 hours he slept to give it back to him, and that was all in the first half hour. I didn't let him cry long today.. i felt bad.
ReplyDeleteYou know your baby best and what works for some people might not work for you. I've been struggling with trying to get Sonya to take a bottle from Tim. We're in process of getting prepared for daycare. She was crying and crying. Poor thing... but I let her cry in Tim's arms until she fell asleep because she refused to eat. Broke my heart... but I know I have to do it.
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