maybe a little sleep
After a visit with Heidi on Monday, I realized that Jaeger’s sleeping problem is partially my own doing. So here’s a warning to myself later on and any other expecting mothers:
Even at 3am, you are required to think.
But I don’t want to! So, I hear the baby cry for more than a minute, I get up, purposely staying as asleep as possible in my mind, and feed the boy. Stopping the in-bed feedings cut down a bit on his gas, and cut out 15 minutes of sleep (or more if I wake up too much), but didn’t extend his sleeping pattern. On suggestions from Heidi, I actually tried not feeding him Monday night when he woke up — I didn’t follow through with the picking him up and calming him down; I only stuck the pacifier in his mouth. Lo & behold, the device lived up to its name! So, one lazy habit — not locating the muffler before going to bed — now must be broken. :) I think I can handle that, though. So, although Jaeger still woke up 4 times as normal the past two nights, he only ate at 2 instead of all 4 wakings. And last night he actually made a 6 hour stretch again!
There might be light at the end of that tunnel.
However, gassiness is still an issue. I have stopped drinking milk, and that seems to have helped, but not eliminated, the problem. Yesterday he had a bottle of formula at my mom’s, which I blame for an hour and a half crying/screaming bout yesterday. It was certainly a gas problem, but it does seem a little soon (only a few hours) for the bottle to hit him that hard. Who knows. Maybe we’ll try soy, maybe I’ll make sure and feed him just before I leave and just after I come back, maybe I’ll try a pump….but mostly I just am too tired to think about it.
And now I am journalling my woes instead of putting away laundry; fixing dinner; and preparing lessons for literature class and American Heritage Girls, both of which are tomorrow. Maybe later I’ll get to journalling my woes with Hans. :)
By the time Pastor Craig gets to Psalm 127 & 128 in his “Psalms of Ascents” series, I think I’ll be in need of the reminders contained therein!
