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[psocoptera]

There is nothing like the first sugar-snap pea of the season. (Sadly, I think it may be also be the antepenultimate pea, as I only had one plant come up this year...)

Have embarked on an ambitious plan to sort and file Josh's grandma's papers in hopes of eventually determining whether her bills are getting paid. It's a hard thing for her, moving from a system where most information about what's going on is contained in her head to one where it's manifest in file folder labels, etc. I think she was kind of pleased to see the surface of the first table again though.

Juniper may have used her first plural. Mimicry not intention, of course, but interesting.

If someone had told me twenty years ago when I first met the big crush of my teen years that I would someday end up breastfeeding in front of him and not die of mortification, it would have blown my fragile twelve-year-old mind. But hey, that happened. Maybe it's only funny to me. (No, come on. That's totally funny.)

That meeple is going to be up at 5:30 am again, and I'm in denial. Her naps lately are... gah. Probably a separate entry. (But in brief: why can't she just sleep? whyyyyyy?)

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[gannet.livejournal.com]

I can't remember just now, how old is Juniper these days?

[irilyth]

Fifteen months, minus a week.

[gannet.livejournal.com]

TSOR and my own experience with T suggest that she might be likely to be shifting her nap schedule around this point, which may make for a rocky transition.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's been a certain amount of "is it before or after lunch?" confusion. Plus some feelings of abandonment, I think, over me trying to push the crib when for a long time a lot of her naps were in my lap... she's actually napping right now in my lap (not sure if that's negative progress or a useful break). Oh no, I am forced to spend time on the internet instead of cleaning. Oh help. (Well, though, on the flip side, I failed to have a water bottle in reach and I'm hungry.)

[gannet.livejournal.com]

Yes, we had trouble with that transition, too.

FWIW, I started documenting our struggles and strategies around T's sleep at around http://gannet.livejournal.com/210641.html . You might find something of use in those posts/comments; you might not.

I think sleep is the key thing!

IIRC, the sleep training technique we used tried the crib for a while each session, then if necessary used whatever worked after a break in between.

[gannet.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the trick. Here's more detail: http://gannet.livejournal.com/211022.html

[gannet.livejournal.com]

Additionally, it's possible that she's going through a sleep regression (http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/2006/02/qa_what_are_sle.html).

[irilyth]

06:30, but yeah. Seems like she's pretty consistently sleeping eight hours a night (not uninterrupted, but between going to sleep for the night and being ready to wake up), so it really does seem like she should still be doing some napping during the day. :^p

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

well, there answers my "you still breastfeeding?" question. :)

data point: Sheena typically wakes up around 6:30, but I bring her into bed to feed and get another hour-90 min of sleep that way. (Bedtime = 10 pm. It would be earlier, but we keep sitting down to dinner at 9 pm, arrrgh.)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Juniper starts falling apart somewhere between 8 and 9 most evenings. Occasionally if we're out somewhere we can keep her up later but I'll get stressed out wondering if she's *about* to become a wailing nuisance to those around us, which, ok, is a problem I'm creating for myself, but it's hard to just will myself to relax about it.

We sometimes get an extra block of sleep after an early wakeup (just this morning! yay!), but not always. I think she's actually more likely to go back down if I get up and nurse her in the rocker than if I bring her into bed with me, although I'm often too groggy to remember that.

And yes, still breastfeeding! I'd kind of like to cut back some actually - not wean entirely but see if she'll accept more non-nursing comfort from me, encourage her to eat more at meals rather than hold out for nursing, but then, it's been so hot lately, I worry about her getting dehydrated, and she's so cranky sometimes from being exhausted but refusing to nap, if nursing gets us through the day it's worth it.

[bhadrika.livejournal.com]

We always kept the kids up late, so they'd sleep later (if there's going to be time they're awake, we'd rather it be evening than early morning). But it was a beautiful moment when they reached the age of being able to occupy themselves when they woke up too early. Soon followed by the ability to put in videos and make cereal & milk for breakfast independently, and thus alleviated my biggest fear of parenting: "You mean I won't get to sleep in again, ever, for 18 years?"

And hurray for continuing to breastfeed as long as you two want. I'm always stunned and annoyed by the number of people who assume they have a vote in this issue. Josh, maybe a part vote, but otherwise, no one else.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I get to sleep in fairly regularly these days via an arrangement with Josh in which he takes the first shift on weekends and then I take the late morning/afternoon shift while he naps. Josh is awesome.

I really haven't gotten any flack over breastfeeding, interestingly. I think maybe one person said something like "but you are going to wean her at some point" to which the right answer is obviously "oh, sure, at some point". In our social circle at least I think I have to thank the moms who went before me and got people used to the idea that you don't have to stop on any certain (early) date. Thank you, moms!