Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Getting Sleepy Beauty to Sleep




What a peaceful sleeping beauty you'd say...

But 15 minutes before, she was fighting and screaming and wouldn't even let me touch her despite being very tired.

You see, it's her 2nd day at the nursery and she's not finding it funny ... yet.
Day 1- she wouldn't let anyone touch her, she would play and cry at the same time, it was almost as if, she had made up her mind not to be happy. Food? Well let's leave that for another day, shall we?

Reese (what a nice name) refused to sleep or even sit. She walked around in circles, stood to watch other kids in their activities but bluntly refused to participate. And because she was quite sensitive to noise around her, sleep was far from it.

So here we were at day 2 and at 1:40pm, she was sleeping like a little angel... ( if only you knew what it took). 

After I finally got her to eat, I said to her, "Baby Girl, God didn't give me 2 fussy children for nothing, so, let's put that experience to good use" and then I ....

To be continued, with essential sleep tips for mothers with very fussy babes or tots.

Have a restful time ya'll 

Grace 


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