Thinking that I could ditch Borders or Waterstone ( 2 my favorite bookshops) or Amazon.
Yesterday I bought 5 brand new books from discount bookshop the Works costing only £10, Every book there sells at £2 , So I bought a BBC lifestyle book How to look Good , which is a real bargain for me as last year I bought the similar sort of book What not to wear by Trinny and Susanna for £12 from Amazon; Also bought a glossy recipes book and 3 baby's pop-up board books, which would cost about £6 each at Borders.
Today I went to library to check that Gina Ford's book The Complete Sleep Guide for Contended Babies and Toddlers, I didn't expected to get it today as it's sort of popular parenting book. To my surprise, it was there on the shelf in parenting books section and the even more surprising thing is it's brand new as well, the borrowing record sheet suggests that nobody has borrowed it yet. Last month when I wanted to read Steve Biddulph's newly-published book Raising babes -Should babes under 3 go to nursery? I had nearly ordered it from Amazon then changed mind to check its availability in library first, and it was there. Obviously the library service has been improved.
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The book you got from the library sounds interesting. Let me know what the author thinks we mothers should do.
That reminds me, I should go to library too to have a look around. I haven't been there since Isaac was born.
Enjoy the books!
Yesterday I was sitting in the library cafe having coffee while waiting the playgroup to be started, a family with a 2-year-old and a 10 month baby boy came along wanting to share table with me as the cafe was busy. When they all sat down, I gave a glimpse to the blonde baby, he was chuckled with laugh and his eyes are brightened with joy. Sitting oppoiste to him, Danie just started to unsettle, with tears in his eyes he tried to wriggle off from my laps. This is all because he woke up eraly and started to get tired. I suddenly realised what a contended baby all about, the contended baby is the one who had enought sleep.Then I got into chatting with the boy's Mum. when I emntoned Daniel was quite fretful recently due to his sleeping problem, she immediately cited the Gina's Contended Baby book, I said I just borrowed one. She said she followed the book, with her duaghter, the sleeping training last 3 days, she cried 2 hours first night; with her son it took a week to established the routine, but afterward they all slept very well...
I read couple of chapters of Gina's book today. It's full of case studies. Reading through case by case, I thought Daniel wasn't that bad (just like what Terry said) compare to other babes who'd woken up many times during night, or standing up in the cot etc... Daiel's problem is just early waking..
The advice she offered sounds sensible, need to read more, maybe write later..you probably don;t need advice on this matter, your children's sleep are well-sorted!!
Hehe, thanks for sharing all this. I might be lucky to have two pretty easy babies especially in terms of sleeping. But I love to hear all the stories and trust me, I can easily relate to every mom.
When hearing about sleeping problems, my advice has always been "Be tough!". It's true. This is what we did and both Isaac and Isabel turned out to be great sleepers. It's easier to train babies when they are young. Once they are older, the more difficult. I remember Isaac's worst cry was when we tried to wean him off the dummy and he cried for more than 2 hours non-stop the first day. But he eventually gave in. :)
The great thing is, even if Isaac doesn't fall asleep straight away (like the last few nights, he was awake until 10pm or after!), he just lies in cot without disturbing us. We only knew that he was awake because he was having fun banging on the wall.
I was chatting to some mothers recently and heard all their problems related to sleep. One mother hasn't had a full night sleep in 5 years. She has to sleep on the floor of her daughters' room to attend to their needs middle of the night. Another mother also has to sleep with her son, otherwise her son wouldn't go to sleep or would wake up middle of the night looking for her. These are the kids that are older than 4, 2 and a half, and almost 2 respectively.
I was horried hearing these, and I suggested "be tough" again. However they both live in an apartment which makes it hard for them to be tough because they don't want their kids to keep screaming in the middle of the night and wake up the neighbours. So, I got no ideas either.
So, I think you have much better situation. You don't have to worry about waking up the neighbours, and Daniel is still young enough to be trained easily.
Good luck!
Thanks for your suggestion! However we are not ready for 'Being tough' yet!
The woman I talked to at library said to me ' The key is to agree with your partner in advance, if someone go in to pick the baby up, all these crying would be wasted' I talked to Terry about this, he is not keen to do this as he think Daniel's sleep wasn't that bad, compare to his two dughters, Daniel is an Angel...
Even the famous authoritarian author Gina admitted that the 'controlled crying' should be the last resort. She outlined lots of causes for baby's sleeping problems, for example, the unbalanced milk and solid feed (babe had too much milk or too much solid will both cause them waking up at night); unstructured day naps (had too much naps during the day will make baby wake up at night as well): baby's sepration anxiety; baby had wrong sort of sleep association etc.
Recently I brought forward Daniel's breakfast time an hour earlier at 7am than his normal time 8am and subsequently brougt forward the other 2 meals timetalbe, I found his sleep pattern has improved a lot and he dozed off at 6pm without any struggle these couple of days.
I know one day I would probably need 'controlled crying' to break his wrong sleep associations but we are fine at the moment.
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