byfirstlight's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guess who got to rock her monkey to sleep? Isabella let me cuddle and rock her to sleep last night. Phew. That was a relief, because the past week of not rocking her has made me miserable. Last night started out not so good. She could barely hold her eyes open so I took her to her room and turned on her music, diapered her and put on her jammies. Then we sat in the rocking chair to rock. She was fine for the first few minutes, but once she realized she was almost asleep, she started rubbing her eyes and throwing a fit. *sigh* So I stood up and tried to hold her close, all the while rocking and singing. It wasn't working. She started shrieking. I though my eardrums were going to burst. For a minute I thought she was hurting or something, but she wasn't, because as soon as I left her room, she quieted down and started cooing. We went back into her room, and almost immediately it started back up. So I'm standing there rocking her and trying to calm her down, but nothing's working. And then I remembered a book I have but haven't had the time to read; Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. Light bulb went off. I may not have read the book, but just look at the title. The Baby Whisperer. So I started whispering in her ear. I told her how it hurt me to see her cry, because I only wanted her to be happy, how beautiful and wonderful and perfect she is, how much her mommy and daddy love her, how she makes us so happy, and so on. She stopped screaming before I even had the first sentence out. It was funny. She was in the middle of a horrendous shriek, and she just stopped short, put her head on my shoulder, and closed her eyes. I kept whispering, and two minutes later, I laid her down and she slept until 7. So, I say everyone should whisper to their kids. And now, I'm off to go read that book, because I think it might be pretty good. 10:50 a.m. - 01.13.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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