MY CHILDREN’S SLEEPING ROUTINE – IT’S A F**** JOKE

“YOU AND YOUR CHILD ARE READY TO LEARN NEW THINGS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING”

I’m not among new parents and new moms anymore, but I try to write posts about parenting roles in a way that will make you laugh and give you a realistic representation of parental life. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/with-the-witchs-advice-my-coffee-never-tastes-the-same/

I add posts about hardships and emotions with newborns. I hope they will be an educational form for you. The main episodes come from my own sincere parenting experiences. I affirm there are no basic rules for new moms and newborns. Theoretically, it may be, but in practice, this method doesn’t exist.

As a new mother, I was addicted to reading a lot of dry facts about the first week of a baby’s life, breastfeeding strategies, sleep routines, diaper changes, colic, teething times, etc. On the internet, I found lessons for new parents which should help me a lot. Should have, but didn’t help.

It’s just that every child is different, each one experiences colic or teething differently too. For some new parents, sleeplessness can be a big problem, and for others the appearance of an unexplained rash. The same applies to having fun together, which one child loves but not necessarily the other.

My little chipmunks are a perfect example of how every child is different. We will go back to the time of the newborn at home. The first three months. The most difficult for new parents and even more difficult for newborns.

Let’s start the fun with a sleeping routine:

FIRST CHILD – THE LITTLE PRINCE OF DARKNESS

• he only played and slept on my tits, not really eating (maybe because he’s a boy)
• didn’t sleep all night, until he was 3 years old
• he was uninterested in taking a nap, so the sentence “sleep when your child is asleep“, didn’t work
• he went to the Nursery from 10 months old, which was supposed to make him sleep better – after endless fun with children – it also didn’t work for him
• he had no colic because he was on my tit a lot, but he drank little
• he had no problems with teething because the first ones appeared with his first walk (11 months)
• we changed tons of diapers for him because our prince, as soon as he peed in the diaper or farted wet, would wake up screaming. He did a lot of poo, even at night

In conclusion, there was no sleeping routine, except bedtime routine. Always around 7p.m after bath and feeding, he fell asleep, and the same with woke up routine, he started each day at 5 a.m, full of energy.

And most importantly, my prince grew and developed properly. And for me, that was the priority, not the thousands of baby sleep rules.

 SECOND CHILD – THE LITTLE SLEEPING BEAUTY

• she sleeps in a crib, after good breastfeeding, 20 minutes on tits, 4-hour sleep
• she eats properly, without playing, tits weren’t her toys
• the wet diaper didn’t wake her up
• she also did less poo, especially at night 
• a nap for her could be anytime and anywhere
• sleepless nights, there were those with colic, my princess often had them
• after 3 months, the colic is over, and teething has started
• she went through the teething very painfully, and so did my nipples

I don’t need to write here that the princess grows and develops properly. Goes to sleep around 7p.m, after bath and feeding but loves to sleep until 8 a.m.

You see a difference in the baby’s sleeping routine, but no difference in development. Trust your parenting instincts. Parenting becomes easier around 3 months after the baby is born. Your precious start to sleep longer, interact more – smiles, laughs – and you begin to feel a strong bond with your baby and you are more confident in your parenting abilities.