Posts Tagged ‘sleep’

winter continues

The dog started barking at quarter to two this morning, waking me up from a dream. She went back to sleep, but I was awake for over three hours. I really don’t know when I went back to sleep, but it was close to 5am I think. Heartburn has been terrible. Stabbing pain under my […]

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music class

Summer’s nearly over. But I love fall, a REAL fall, with colored leaves and crisp air and a few sunny days. Sweaters, boots, coats, scarves, and no more sunscreen (except on the face). Plus it means that Freya’s second birthday will soon be here. I look forward to her third year, when she will begin […]

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goodnight milk

Decided to work on night weaning with earnest last night. Freya is almost 22 months old and I know she is nursing at night now out of habit rather than need. She can still nurse during the day of course, but we need to start focusing on other ways of getting back to sleep, which […]

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pho

Today I went out to lunch with Christina and her son, Evan (I left Freya at home with Brian to take her nap). We went to a little “hole in the wall” joint in the middle of a strip mall here in town, between a UPS store and an Albertson’s. You’d think we would be […]

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second wind

Freya decided not to nap today. I guess that’s why she went to sleep at 8:15 tonight, much earlier than usual for our little night-owl. Today I nursed her to sleep at 12:15, but she woke up five minutes later and I spent the next 45 minutes trying to get her back to sleep, to […]

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eine kleine nachtweaning

Oh poor Freya boo. She wakes up in the night, wants to nurse, points at my chest with her finger and cries out pitifully, “naaah? naahhh??” while kicking her legs and becoming ever more frustrated as I rub her back and soothe her as gently as I can. You aren’t a newborn, honey. You don’t […]

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february

So Freya went through this phase in January where she would stay up til almost 11pm at night. We never figured out what the deal was — we kept to our usual routine of dimming lights and volume after 8pm, reading her books downstairs, and then trying to nurse her down or slow-dance her to […]

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zzzz

Good morning. Night owl baby was up until 11 last night. We’ve just been following her cues (trying to), keeping the room dim and quiet, reading books, letting her wander around but discouraging pulling out more toys. I think around 10:30 she was sitting on the floor playing with her wooden box with the holes […]

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morning person

I’m kind of a morning person, and Freya is revealing herself to be a night owl. Last night I just gave in after trying to rock/soothe/nurse her to sleep for almost TWO HOURS. Fine, I said. If your body is telling you that staying up past 10:30 works for you right now, we will go […]

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saturday breakfast

This morning Freya woke up around seven as Brian was getting out of bed to feed the pets. She cuddled into me and I tried to nurse her back to sleep but she kicked her leg up and down and kept her eyes open. We then lay in the bed like spoons, and I called […]

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