With Samara, it was a pair of pajamas with apples on them. They were quite cute...yet without fail, every time she wore them, she'd be up a dozen times a night and we'd get no sleep. So we threw them out. That's right. In the garbage. We didn't even donate them...because we didn't want to pass those bad sleep vibes onto anyone else.
With Presley, she's so inconsistent that I think I would have to throw out every pair of pajamas she owns if I were to follow the same warped logic. We do the same routine every night and yet it produces drastically different nights. From great nights of putting herself to sleep and sleeping 8 hours straight, waking for a quick feed and then going straight back down for another 4 hours, to nights like last night, where she was up about half a dozen times for a soother and once for a feed.
It has become glaringly obvious that I have been superstitious about the wrong thing with Presley. It has nothing to do with pajamas. And everything to do with soothers.
Will we push through? Will we try to cut them out completely? Stay tuned...
8 comments:
I know EXACTLY how you feel. I swore for a while that every time Maddy wore new pjs she had a better night of sleep. In my sleep deprived brain, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable solution to buy her a new set every night.
Did you do a soother at all with Samara? Maddy never had one, and for a while I regretted it, but now I feel like it's just one less thing to wean from...
Soothers are the most brutal dilemma a parent has to face with a baby. Good luck.
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My boys were both up a zillion times last night. Of course it would be the night before I have to work....
Good luck with the soother decision! Luca didn't ever take one and Levi loved it, so I've had both experiences. They are both difficult and great for different reasons.
Oh, we had "bad" pajamas too...green with monkeys, they were my favorites but around 4.5 months I was like, DONE! And I always wished Logan would have taken a pacifier, until I realized at least we never had to get rid of it...but I'm still going to try it one day with #2! Good Luck!
Oh man, too funny about the pj's!
Giving up the soother would be really scary but I bet worth it in the end! I LOVE the soother - I think it's the best thing ever!!
There were only specific binkies that Bean would even entertain. To this day, she still has one of the first that was her favorite.
I hate that Ny is so addicted to her soother but for us, we had to introduce it at a very early age to ensure she kept the suck reflex for when we could finally feed.
I'm not looking forward to the day we take it away from her. I'll be the mum shooting evil "I dare you to say something" looks to anyone who looks at me sideways when I send my six year old away to day-camp with a binkie.
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