byfirstlight's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini-Me? Isabella is on some sort of crusade to avoid sleep lately. It's bumming me out. Usually, I'm the one to put her to bed at night. We had our own little ritual. Take a bath, drink a bottle, get rocked to sleep listening to a classical music cd. And things were going so well. Until this past week. Suddenly she wants none of this bedtime business. Bath and bottle time are still okay, but once that bottle is empty and I'm ready to rock her, she fights it. She squirms and kicks and grunts and screams bloody murder, all the while rubbing her eyelids, which she can barely hold open. This is putting a huge damper on my favorite part of the day, let me tell you. She has such a strong personality. She's going to be just like me, I think. At least in the stubbornness department. I don't get it, though. It's obvious how tired she is, yet she does NOT want to sleep. Not in her crib, not in our bed, not anywhere. I wonder if she's afraid she'll miss something by sleeping. In any case, it's such an ordeal. I hope she doesn't become a temper-tantrum thrower. I don't know personally how stressful that can be, but after reading Stephanie's diary, I can only imagine. That can't be easy to deal with. And the thing is, how do you handle something like that? I don't want to spank my kids. My parents spanked me, and the only purpose it served was to give me hard feelings towards them for it, and to make me do mean little things for which I couldn't be caught. Guh. And Adam's on the other side of the fence. He thinks I'm nuts. He's all for spanking kids. And that's a bad combination. A mother who won't spank and a dad who will produces kids who mind their dad and disrespect their mom. At least, that's how it was with my cousins Jared, Megan, and Jody. They don't mind their mom at all, and act like little heathens when they're with her, and they're perfect angels for my uncle. I don't want that to happen to me. But anyway, back to the sleeping thing. I'm not sure what to do to get her to sleep. I make sure she goes to sleep with a nice full belly and a fresh overnight diaper. She's warm, but not too warm, she has the music playing loud enough to hear faintly, but not too loud to keep her awake, and so on. She's just so stubborn. Oh, and the last couple of nights, she's begun waking up at about 1am, and staying up until 3. Ack! I wish she would just sleep through the night like babies in a perfect world do. Hee. 11:46 p.m. - 01.11.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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