Bad Habits

      When I first used to put Sophia to sleep, I would rock her to sleep and lay her in her bassinet. As she got older and the lack of sleep began to ware on me with having to work four days a week, I began to nurse her to bed which usually resulted in both of us falling asleep. For the first few weeks this was nice because she always went to bed when we did and we got to snuggle together. But as she has gotten older, and much bigger, I am trying my hardest to get her back into her bassinet. Not that I don't still enjoy snuggling with her, but her little legs are much stronger these days and while she nurses, she fidgets and kicks me in the stomach by accident. She also likes to sprawl out at night and by morning Jeff and I are on the very edges of the bed and she's pretty much taken our bed from us.LOL. Oh, the power little ones have over us. 

      The first night I nursed her to sleep in bed and then got up to lay her in her bassinet. Her eyes popped open wide and she looked at me as if to say, "Mom, what do you think you are doing?" So, then we tried the rocking chair and finally she fell back to sleep, so I tried once again to put her in her bassinet. Nope, she wasn't having it, so once again, back to the rocking chair. When she awoke again when I tried for the third time to lay her down, I thought, okay, she's sleepy enough, I'm just going to let her cry it out and she'll fall asleep. Little did I know, that she has quite the determination. She began to cry and fuss, but then every so often she'd seem to stop and look as if she was finally giving in, and then her head would pop up, and out would come a yell for Mom and Dad. Finally, Jeff couldn't take it any more and and went to go grab her, I told him, "she has to learn to cry herself to sleep, she'll get tired of crying and fall asleep." LOL. So, I was wrong. She continued to cry and scream and get herself all worked up to where Jeff was about to cry and so I finally told him to go get her and I nursed her back to sleep and once again she slept with us in our bed.

       I have tried for the last four nights to lay her in her bassinet and every time she wakes up. I'm not sure if it's because we've trained her with sleeping in our bed or what, but eventually it's going to have to change, because our queen size bed seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

       We love our little girl with all our hearts, but a good nights sleep just sounds so nice right now. I guess I'm just going to have to be as determined to get her into her bassinet, as she is to stay out of it.