I'm doing my best to enjoy this stage, but mostly I just want to get Phoebe on a predictable sleeping schedule. Deep down inside, though, I'm not a believer of predictable sleeping schedules. I believe that babies need to be supported through the dark and scary night. I believe that eventually they'll learn to fall asleep on their own. And I have evidence this is true because all my kids fall asleep on their own now...except for Phoebe.
Is Alexander sleeping in a cardboard box instead of his bed? Yes.
Does that actually matter? No.
Can I think of a "burning question" to study about poetry + education this semester when all I can think about is how I'm going to get my next "fix" (of sleep)? I honestly don't know.
I'm not doing a good job of writing down anything cute that the kids are doing because when I get a spare minute to sit down and type anything, it's school stuff. The reading part of my schoolwork is fairly easy because I can do that while giving Phoebe the snuggle-time she feels she deserves. But typing is just harder for me this time around than it was with my other babies?
Honestly, I think it's my chair.
I have just an office chair to sit in, but with my other babies (aside from Miriam), I had a rocking chair to sit in while I typed and...it just worked better for balancing a baby while typing.
So...that's it. That's the tea: my brain is fried and I still have to write up multiple research proposals this week, have a bunch of stuff to do for work, and Thursdays are just the worst.
Lo siento mucho.
ReplyDeleteThe right chair so important! As you know, we moved right after Prima was born via c-section. All our furniture was packed out when she was 11 days old, so we lived on loaner furniture for the next 6 weeks which is often likened to hospital waiting room furniture. We were also in and out of the hospital a lot, and it's an apt comparison and not comfortable at all for recovery and learning how to nurse a very tiny human. Then we we were in a hotel for three weeks, so I was reunited with my couch and bed until she was about 3 months old. We finally went rocker recliner shopping when she was 5 months old, and I seriously felt like Goldilocks trying several out and getting the one that was just right. It was a miraculous day when it arrived at our house.
ReplyDeleteSo I feel this. Hard. I hope you can keep figuring it out! Maybe a neighbor or someone your local buy nothing group has a rocking chair you can use?