Category for "Parenting"

• All Over the Place.

  June 23, 2009 at 4:08 pm

  Uggh. Tired. Depressed. Alone. Blah, blah, blah.

  This blaaahhg is beginning to bore even me.

  Bubba starts his new position next week and, no, we still do not know where. As it stands, if the Colville position is not funded we will be relocated to the Northwest Region. The third offer that Bubba was given last week, includes either of two positions both of which are out of Sedro Woolley. Sedro Woolley is a hell of a lot better than Menlo, but damn, I really want that funding to come through for Colville. (Fingers, toes, eyes crossed!)

  The anxiety/suspense/drama over our current state of unknowingness is literally killing me. I just feel so stuck; not able to make any short or long term plans, just floating by waiting for the hammer to drop. I want to pack, but I don’t want to be living out of boxes for the unforeseen future. I could be looking for places to move to, but with either of our current options on opposite sides of the state and no real time frame for when we would be moving, it seems like a complete waste of time.

  And with Boo’s stretches of sleep not getting any longer (nor any worse, but I digress) I don’t have a lot of personal time to be wasting googling apartments for rent.

  We’ve been continuing to sleep train, enforcing a regular sleep routine and napping schedule based on suggestions from Pantley’s No-cry Sleep Solution, but just when we think she is finally sleeping for longer than 45 minutes without waking, she throws us a curve ball and starts waking every 25 minutes and can be calmed with nothing but fresh boob. I have really grown to love breastfeeding, but, frankly, I will love it even more once I don’t have to do it anymore.

  I’ve got nothing else for you right now, as the baby has just woken for the THIRD time in an hour and a half and unless I get in there soon, she’s not going to give me any more moments of peace this afternoon. And I need me some more interneting.
  

  WOMAN, If you don’t give me boob I will destroy the earth.

  Parenting, Self Loathing, She just wont shutup | 3 Comments

• The Current Status of the Transfer and Boo’s Dietary Practices.

  April 28, 2009 at 7:26 am

  Today Bubba handed in our ranked choices for his pending job transfer. We hope to find out in the next few days if we will be moving to BFE southwest Washington or BFE northeast Washington.

  

  Keep your fingers and toes and eyes crossed that everyone in the pool wants a job but that no one but us wants to move to the land of sagebrush and record-breaking snowfall.

  Last Friday, I spoke with my boss and, shockingly luckily, he wants to work with me regardless of where we relocate in the state so at least that aspect of the transfer is taken care of. As for the house, we have several calls out to our mortgage lenders and other non-profit financial advisers regarding our limited options. So far, everything everyone has been saying about lengthy hold-times and banks not wanting to play appears to be holding true. Oh, hum. . .

  In the meantime, we are just anxiously waiting and passing the time by giving Boo tastes of solid food. Tonight? She, and her shirt, had her first spoonfuls of rice cereal.

  Because waiting to find out what color rice cereal will make her poops is much less stressful than planning a move.

  Home Ownership, Parenting, She just wont shutup | Comment?

• Sleepless Near Seattle.

  April 16, 2009 at 6:45 pm

  God I am tired.

  I cannot remember a time when I have been this hopelessly tired.

  Boo is still protesting against sleeping through the night and instead has made it very clear that she would rather not waste all that time just sleeping when she can nurse continually throughout the night while she’s sleeping. I, on the other hand, am awake most of the night because I have been lying on my side for far too long for fear that if I lie in any other position I will smother her, or that she will finally roll over for the first time — right off the bed and onto the floor.

  It has been nearly two months since she has consistently slept through the night and we have begun to regularly modify our nightly routine in order to find something — anything — that works. She still goes to bed around 8pm but instead of nursing her to sleep in front of the TV, I now take her into our room and nurse her to sleep on our bed. Then, once she has fallen asleep, I carefully roll away from her and off of the bed, pick her up and place her in her bassinet. Sometimes she wakes during the transfer, but usually once we put the pacifier back in her mouth and ssshhh! her for awhile she falls right back asleep.

  That is until 12:30am comes around.

  Like clock work, she wakes up screaming around 12:30am every night and no amount of shhhhing or pacifying will soothe her. The only way I can get her to calm down is to offer the boob, so I inevitably pull her into bed with us and she nurses until we both fall back asleep. Until an hour or two later, when I am awaken to the sounds of a frustrated baby who has burrowed her face into my bosom only to find that she has been nipple-blocked by my shirt or the bedding.

  This cycle repeats itself over and over throughout the early morning until either I am awoken to Bubba’s alarm going off or a well-rested, and well-fed baby blowing raspberries at me. It’s those mornings, when I am awoken by raspberries, that I will miss once she does finally sleep through the night.

  Because she will eventually sleep through the night, right?

  Parenting | 6 Comments

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