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• Comfort items

  Posted at 1:12 pm by CS, on July 25, 2019

  Cameron has two items that are her sense of comfort, or her security items if you will. I’m sure in some point in life we have all had some sort of security item, or ritual, or habit that just made us feel safe.

  For Cameron they are her pacifier, or as we call it her Nubby, and her comfy blanket. Now I know what some of you are thinking, she’s almost 2, she shouldn’t have a nubby, well she does but we try to only give it to her at nap time and bedtime, and we will slowly wean her off that as well. But I’ve also learned to pick my battles, and I’ve found that when she is feeling under the weather, or out of her comfort zone that her pacifier does help calm her down, and if it’s having a toddler tantrum in the middle of the store, or giving her her pacifier for 5 minutes, I’ll choose the pacifier. When she gets up in the morning, we allow her to keep it until breakfast and take it from her, then she gets it back at nap time, and the same goes for after nap time where we take it after her snack until bedtime.

  Her blanket she has all the time. It’s always sort of near her when she’s playing, and she does sleep with it. I wish she had chosen a smaller and not so heavy blanket, but it just didn’t happen that way. We have thought of cutting it down and making it smaller, but I feel like she would realize that and it would not go over well. She loves this blanket, and it gives her a sense of home and security. We will try to wean her off of taking it into public soon I’m sure, although right now if we are out and about, it comes with us but stays in the car and she does realize that.

  Do your kiddos have anything that comforts them? Or anything they need to bring with them always?

  Posted in Mom-ing | 0 Comments | Tagged blanket, comfort, nubby, pacifier, security

• Teething

  Posted at 11:33 am by CS, on July 11, 2019

  Besides sleep regressions, I think one of the next dreaded time period for new parents is when the babies start to teeth. These are times of crankiness and pain for all. Babies can experience diaper issues, fevers, loss of appetite all while trying to deal with the pain of teeth breaking through the gums, and on top of that, they can’t talk so they can’t tell you what’s wrong. From the time Cameron was about 4 months old, I swore any time she wasn’t a happy go lucky baby it was due to teething. She wasn’t sleeping normally, teething, she was crying a little bit extra, teething, extra cranky, teething. So when those suckers finally did start breaking through we tried all we could to make sure she stayed comfortable.

  People told us to try those Amber necklaces because they worked great and you wouldn’t even be able to tell the child was teething. So I bought one and hoped for the best, but it didn’t work for us.

  The doctor told us we could try infants Motrin or Tylenol, but I didn’t want to give her that often because I didn’t want her body to become immune to it for it we needed to use it for something more severe. But we did use it every now and then, especially at night to help her sleep a bit better.

  We tried orajel for about a day until I realized how bad that was for her, so we switched to the Nuby teething gel. That did seem to work pretty well. We also stuck pacifiers and teethers in the freezer for her to suck on. We tried frozen fruit but she wasn’t much of a fan of that.

  I don’t know if this is the same for everyone, but only the first few teeth were pretty bad as far as the really bad crankiness we saw from Cameron. After the first few, it didn’t seem to bother her AS much. She also got a bunch of teeth all at once so that may have helped too.

  We are very close to being done, we have some canines and the back molars, then we should be good until the tooth fairy starts making her visits. At least that’s what I’m hoping as I have not been told otherwise.

  Do you have anything that worked for you and your kiddo to deal with teething?

  Posted in Mom-ing | 0 Comments | Tagged frozen, gel, pacifier, teeth, teething

• Sleep when they sleep

  Posted at 1:50 pm by CS, on May 9, 2019

  Easier said than done. When she was a newborn I was always trying to run around to get stuff done around the house while she napped. And now she’s down to one nap a day and then bedtime. So I really don’t get much done, nap times are now for writing blog posts, or doing the dishes, folding laundry, or getting dinner prepared.

  We did get lucky though. When we would transition her down from 3-2-1 naps, we sort of did it cold turkey. Just one day we did it and moved on. She’s a very big “if she doesn’t see it/use it/do it she won’t miss it” type of girl, so those transitional periods really never bothered her. Now that’s not to say we didn’t have some hiccups and early risings or middle of the night wake ups, but they were fairly few and far between.

  Now I know this probably means, if we have a second child we won’t get as lucky!

  I don’t want to jinx ourselves but we got fairly lucky with how she does sleep. She was sleeping pretty much through the night pretty early on. And although she’s had some sleep regressions we have gotten lucky with how we were able to “sleep train” her. Now I put that in quotes because I don’t feel that we really trained her in any way. At the moment if she arises in the middle of the night, I wait 10 minutes because most times she will put herself right back to sleep. In the chance she doesn’t, the 10 minutes sort of shows her that we won’t rush right in if she cries, but that we will come check on her. And if this situation repeats during the night, we just circle back and do it all again. In the morning the rule is, we do not go and get her until she is standing up in her crib waiting by the door end of her crib. For us this way, we get her breakfast started, tidy the house up, and other things, because some days, if she makes a noise at 6-6:30 she will put herself back to sleep for a little bit so we don’t want to rush in the first sign of noise and risk keeping her from more sleep. At 18 months, she now sleeps 7:30-7am on MOST days, with a nap from 12-1:30/2. Now I say most days because some days she will rise about 6:30, or will take a longer or shorter nap. Just depends on the activities and excitements of the day, but a good 80% is the same sleep schedule.

  Now for what she sleeps with, she has a musical giraffe, a few pacifiers, and her blanket. Her blanket is her absolute favorite, didn’t think she would cling to something so young, but here we are, so that will be a fun transition when we need to wean her off of that. She’s now only getting her pacifier for bedtime and nap-time and that wasn’t a very hard transition so hoping the blanket won’t be either.

  Sleep is one topic I had a lot of questions on, but it was also a topic that you really had to see what related most to you by doing and testing our different options.

  Posted in If I had known, Mom-ing | 0 Comments | Tagged blanket, music, pacifier, sleep, sleep training, soothing, sound

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