Dennis is gone this week, that's right, the WHOLE week in Albuquerque (yes, I used Word to spell that). This is the longest Dennis has been away since Eddie was born. Fortunately, my parents are coming into town on Thursday to help out, so it won't technically be the longest I've been with Eddie by myself. That, and I have a super nannywho watches Eddie a couple days/week--more about her in another post.
So the posts this week are likely to be a lil' mundane, and frequent, as they'll be focused for a dad who misses his baby.
Said baby is upstairs right now, trying to put himself to sleep. I can hear his feet banging on the crib mattress and the noise the mattress makes when it hits the crib springs. Ka-Wham! Ka-Wham! And I don't even have the monitor on. Hard to believe such a little body is capable of making so much noise (he obviously wasn't collicy). When he's not walloping the mattress with all the force of an Olympic gymnast, he is chatting with himself, fun excited chatting, then quiet low-key chatting and sometimes it goes to a whimper--that is when I listen a little harder so it doesn't get to a full blown cry, which will blow the whole nap. I vary how long I let him go--probably shouldn't do that. I try and wait at least 10 minutes, then go check on him. It's erie when he goes from chatting incessantly to sudden quiet, like he fell asleep mid sentence.
Last night was a good night--went to sleep at 7, slept till 1:45 and then again until 7. I could get used to this! The above was taken after breakfast this morning. Figure I might as well get the milage out of that bib. Eddie was very smiley this morning.
1 comment:
What you are doing varying the time before you go up to check on his is considered variable reinforcement. That is he hopefully should not get a sense that if he talks for so long then he can expect to see his caregiver. Instead he is not sure how long it will be till he gets checked on and he might just fall asleep waiting. So I don't think it's a bad thing to do.
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