I seem to read and heard about people's babes who take long naps. Since my last bout of mastits I can't count on the number of times when Daniel ever had a stretch of nap longer than an hour. He's constantly screaming/crying before he finally fall asleep. He has many wrong sleep associations, breastmilk, dummy, cuddling (from Daddy), you name it! Yesterday i asked Terry 'am I a bad mother?' He said 'why?' I said 'cause I can't make Daniel sleep.' He said 'Don't be silly, you know you are a good mother!', I think I'm not in the sense of sorting out Daniel's sleeping routine.
Now I understand why some Mums said they hate Gina Ford, an authoritarian parenting guru, who promotes the military style rigid routine for babes. They said that Gina's methods makes them feel inadequate. I know babes thrive on a routine, but not sure if the routine should be sticked to a military(rigid) style. Though I'm not a massive routine person and I don't believe baby should be controlled for comfort. maybe it's the time to open Gina's book to get an insight just for my own sanity.
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I'm one of those who loves routine and maybe that's why my kids love routine as well - they had no choice as I had made them stick to the routine.
I wish I could offer some good ideas to improve Daniel's sleeping. However I'm in no position to do that as I really haven't encoutered the similar issues with my kids. More importantly, I really don't want to make you feel bad, because you are in fact a great mother!
Thanks!
You see, I don't want to use controlled crying as I can't bear to hear Daniel crying for too long. Tried pick-up and put-down as well, not work... so I still end up to take him for a drive or push him out for his naps most of time...
However, Terry thinks Daniel is not too bad on sleeping compare to his dughters when they were in their infancy.
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