eee1313 | (no subject)

It's 5:36 a.m. and I've been awake for well over an hour. My daughter refuses to sleep by herself. She only sleeps when she's held. As soon as she hits the crib mattress, she's awake and crying. I've changed her diaper, rocked her, sung to her, given her a bottle, put on her mobile, and NOTHING is working. I'm now at the point where I just shut the door to her room, shut the door to our room, and I'm trying to burn off frustration by decompressing with my flist so that maybe -- maybe -- she'll allow me to sleep for one last hour of the day.

Some days, having kids is AWESOME. :| She's damn lucky she's so cute.

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See if your local library (or library system) has Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg. She's a genius. One of my friends recommended it to us (she's a school psychologist, so can usually sniff out the crappy advice books), and it really worked well for us with lots of tips and solid advice. At least, in our experience, she was never wrong.

Good luck, Eeper-- remember, she'll be okay if you have to shut the doors and walk away for a bit. And in the end, you want to be able to do just that, but for longer than "a bit" anyway.

Now you also, like me, know why some animals eat their young. ;)