Remember how I was lamenting the fact our child wouldn\u2019t fall asleep at night? Well, we\u2019ve certainly got that problem solved. The girl slept something like 12 of 15 hours between late evening last night and late morning today. It was brilliant. The downside is the kid refuses to go down from early afternoon through the evening now. She takes a few catnaps here and there, but for the most part, she\u2019s awake endlessly.
\nThere are two problems with that. First, she\u2019s only five weeks old, so there\u2019s only so much either she or we can do to keep her entertained during her awake time. Her bouncy seat and swing only interest her for about five minutes at a time. We can read to her, but other than indirect benefits, it doesn\u2019t do much to soothe her. Second, as the time since her last good sleep increases, her mood darkens. We\u2019re pretty much resigned to about a three-hour window of crying, fussing, and aborted attempts to put her down. She\u2019ll fall asleep on one of us, we\u2019ll wait until she\u2019s been out 10-15 minutes, gently put her in her pack \u2018n play, and within five minutes she\u2019s awake and yelling. While it\u2019s much better that she does this during the day and evening than overnight, it\u2019s still quite frustrating since nothing calms her down.<\/p>\n
Gail made an excellent point regarding the US women at the Olympics, and I was greatly remiss for not acknowledging their accomplishments. Despite my general dislike for softball, I think it\u2019s a good Olympic sport. Perhaps it is just because we kick serious ass. Or maybe it\u2019s the fact that we have the best players in the world, and we know we\u2019ll see them play in the games, unlike either men\u2019s basketball or baseball (for different reasons, obviously).<\/p>\n
Another point I forgot to make was the large number of athletes from all countries sporting Livestrong bracelets during the games. I wondered, are all these people really interested in Lance Armstrong\u2019s foundation, or did Nike just dump a few buckets at the Olympic Village for anyone to take? Regardless, I suppose it\u2019s a good thing that people wore them no matter why they took them.<\/p>\n
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Remember how I was lamenting the fact our child wouldn\u2019t fall asleep at night? Well, we\u2019ve certainly got that problem solved. The girl slept something like 12 of 15 hours between late evening last night and late morning today. It was brilliant. The downside is the kid refuses to go down from early afternoon through the evening now. She takes a few catnaps here and there, but for the most part, she\u2019s awake endlessly. There are two problems with that. First, she\u2019s only five weeks old, so there\u2019s only so much either she or we can do to keep her entertained during her awake time. Her bouncy seat and swing only interest her for about five minutes at a time. We can read to her, but other than indirect benefits, it doesn\u2019t do much to soothe her. Second, as the time since her last good sleep increases, her mood darkens. We\u2019re pretty much resigned to about a three-hour window of crying, fussing, and aborted attempts to put her down. She\u2019ll fall asleep on one of us, we\u2019ll wait until she\u2019s been out 10-15 minutes, gently put her in her pack \u2018n play, and within five minutes she\u2019s awake and yelling. While it\u2019s much better that she does this during the day and evening than overnight, it\u2019s still quite frustrating since nothing calms her down. Gail made an excellent point regarding the US women at the Olympics, and I was greatly remiss for not acknowledging their accomplishments. Despite my general dislike for softball, I think it\u2019s a good Olympic sport. Perhaps it is just because we kick serious ass. Or maybe it\u2019s the fact that we have the best players in the world, and we know we\u2019ll see them play in the games, unlike either men\u2019s basketball or baseball (for different reasons, obviously). Another point I forgot to make was the large number of athletes from all countries sporting Livestrong bracelets during the games. I wondered, are all these people really interested in Lance Armstrong\u2019s foundation, or did Nike just dump a few buckets at the Olympic Village for anyone to take? Regardless, I suppose it\u2019s a good thing that people wore them no matter why they took them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,202,23,14],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-lance-armstrong","tag-olympics","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15622,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/15622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}