There is not enough monry to make me go back to work full time. I’m gonna take all my degrees and raise my boy.
Archive for June, 2007
Jun
04
Sleep
so the experiment worked. 15 hours of sleep. lots of day sleep too. not sure if had or 3 naps. i look forward to getting to ky when i can get to being on top of things. in some ways i’m looking forward to not having any help.
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alex was way wiggly here abt 3am. i finally gave up and put him on the floor. he kicked and blinked and played alone for abt 3o minutes before making signs of “kaiser want food now”. he sucked down the bottle and went right to sleep.
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Scouts mom is sleeping on the couch downstairs. id mentioned buying a mattress weeks ago and he said nah. ooookay fine. so last night she slept on the tiny couch (i have to curl my knees on this thing) on throw pillows. today they came home with real pillows. tonight on my shift ive learned that omg she snores. (i forget how mich i detest snoring. i know its not fair bc its not like the person can help it, but it makes me crazy). if its bc of tired from travel hopefully it will be better tomorrow. if its bc of the couch then we have to buy a mattress for cuz she cant be comfy. if its how she always sleeps then omg oxygen and a cpap machune need on the xmas list.
edit: i just got this-
How Sleep Can Affect Weight
Want help achieving and maintaining a healthy weight? Aim for eight hours of sleep a night. Research suggests that appetite-regulating hormones are affected by sleep and that sleep deprivation could lead to weight gain. In two studies, people who slept five hours or less per night had higher levels of ghrelin – a hormone that stimulates hunger – and lower levels of the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin than those who slept eight hours per night. So make sure getting adequate sleep is near the top of your optimum health checklist!
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Jun
03
Experiment of the Day
So I have been reading about babies. Specifically about sleep. I went to BN yesterday and got Susannah and Trinny books, Touchpoints, and the Pantley sleep book.
Alex has that shit screaming session in the evening that is just NOT fun.
So.
1. Brazelton says the majority of the babies in his practice have that evening scream-a-thon and that he thinks it’s a neurological rebooting of some sort. Basically, if so many babies do it then there must be a reason for it.
2. Pantley says if you miss your baby’s cues that you will wind up with a screamer.
3. Someone else (I do a lot of reading online in the middle of the night, so I’m fuzzy on citations) said one key to sleep is EARLY EARLY EARLY, like 530pm if necessary.
4. Person at work who said she did a ton of reading on sleep and has had her son sleeping “through the night” (till 4am is the definition of that in their house) said that even though it’s counterintuitive that often babies get overtired and putting them to bed earlier helps them sleep longer at night (I know, makes no sense, but there you have it.)
So. When the Tiny Kaiser Baby Schu was winding down at 5pm I said “Well, I want to try to keep him to sleep and see if we can miss baby screamfest”
It’s 905 and we’re still on a roll, some patting and feeding and shhhhhhhing but sleeping. Wheeeee! Now we’ll see if the flip side is true – that he won’t be wide freaking awake at 4am.
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