baby boy auggie,
you know how much i love you and how much i hate when you are sad.
this is why your sleep journey has been so rough
and unlike anything i have experienced as mama thus far.
from the time you were born you spent a lot of time crying like this.
you wanted so desperately to sleep, but you couldn't.
we would stay up literally all night together every couple of days during those first weeks together.
darling it was so difficult.
it was terrible to see you so miserable and trying on me and my sleep deprived raising two other beings by myself during the week body.
this is one of my favorite pictures of you.
three weeks old and asleep on my belly. at this point i had talked with a lactation specialist and cut out dairy in my diet and it drastically helped with your tummy problems. which in turn i thought would help you sleep better. i had you in my room in your rock and play. you usually would sleep about three to four hour stretches. one day i put you in it for a nap. when i came back to check on you, you were trying to climb out. thus the end of sleeping in the rock and play.
the next step was to co sleep with you as you already were for the second half of the night and i co slept with your older sister and brother.
the best thing i did for auggie was to get him a lovee.
he stopped taking a binkie around three months and was never attached to a blankie.
when we first started sleep training i gave him his little stuffed frankenstein that he had since he was two months old and he would sleep with him and it was adorable.
one day a couple of weeks later at the zoo, i spotted this adorable sloth.
when i presented to auggie he immediately grabbed him and feel in love.
auggie and i named him julius the sloth and they snuggle every night.
it is the sweetest sight and brings him such comfort.
auggie is such a better sleeper now.
even though this was not the plan, it is what is working for us right now.
when he wakes up usually around five we snuggle in my bed for an hour and so and its glorious.
love you boo.
he stopped taking a binkie around three months and was never attached to a blankie.
when we first started sleep training i gave him his little stuffed frankenstein that he had since he was two months old and he would sleep with him and it was adorable.
one day a couple of weeks later at the zoo, i spotted this adorable sloth.
when i presented to auggie he immediately grabbed him and feel in love.
auggie and i named him julius the sloth and they snuggle every night.
it is the sweetest sight and brings him such comfort.
auggie is such a better sleeper now.
even though this was not the plan, it is what is working for us right now.
when he wakes up usually around five we snuggle in my bed for an hour and so and its glorious.
love you boo.
