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... of an experiment

Selah is coming up on 11 months old.  She is sometimes crawling on her hands and knees, but mostly still army crawling, pulling up only in her crib, starting to eat table foods, babbling a few sounds (ma ma, da da, tha, tha, ya ya, noo, noo, etc), clapping and high fiving, and sometimes waving and signing.  By 11 months old, Abram was cruising around furniture, standing completely unsupported for small amounts of time, saying uh oh, walking in his walker, climbing onto and off of couches.  So I realize they are very different children.  Selah also cries significantly less than Abram did at this age and is over all much more passive.

So when I begin to compare what his schedule was like at this age and what hers is like, I realize I probably shouldn't be. But I would so love to be able to know what my day is going to look like so that I could plan my life.  I've tried to get her on a schedule using the method of waking her up at a certain time every morning, which worked for Abram when he was around a year old.  But she does this thing...

One day, it will be great.  I wake her up at 6am and put her right back down and she falls asleep and wakes up around 9.  Then she takes a two hour nap in the afternoon and maybe a 45 minute nap in the early evening.  Great!  I can handle that.  But then... the next day, I do the exact same thing: wake her up at 6 and put her back down... and she will not go back to sleep.  She doesn't cry, but she just rolls around and talks to herself and pulls herself up in her crib and then can't sit back down.  So I have to go in there, rock her, and lay her down, but she doesn't want to go to sleep, so she crawls to the side and stands back up and the whole thing starts over.  The other day, I left her in there for around 2 hours!  She never went to sleep.  Then I got her up for about an hour and she was crazy tired, so I put her down and the rest of the day consisted of 3 45 minute naps.  Not sure what this is.  But here's where my experiment comes in.

We are going to try an A/B schedule with her the next few days and see how it goes.  Today, I woke her up at 5:30, fed her and she went back to sleep until 9.  Depending on how she sleeps today (so far, so good), tomorrow I'm just going to let her wake up when she wakes up (usually around 7:30) and have a B day, which usually consists of three naps.  But at least I can plan on it.  That's what's important to me.  Then the next day, I'll try the A day again and see how that goes.

I know this is an uber boring post (except maybe for friends with babies like me who might empathize with my ramblings), but it's for posterity.  It's been really helpful to be able to look back at Abram's life and to really see what he was doing and when.  I get great ideas from my past self that I wouldn't remember if I hadn't written them down. So if we ever have another baby (not planning on it!), I will have two totally different children to compare the third totally different child to... :)




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  1. BonnieMarch 21, 2013 at 1:48 PM

    Now that I have a baby I loved reading this post! Everything revolves around those naps. Hope your experiment works well!

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