Learning Curves

When Aid was born I got lot of advice. Lots. Some of it I look back on and completely agree with and some I still don't. But I couldn't take any of it then. I needed to figure out being a mom on my own terms. There are some that love to snicker at some of my new mom anxiousness and how I responded to it.

But I sort of feel like a veteran. I'm still exhausted from lack of sleep. I still have a slightly hard time putting the baby down, and I still want to figure things out for myself. But I am already noticing how much more relaxed I am with Grant.

For instance. Most of you have heard about Grant's gassiness and how that ties into his sleeping. My friend Kelly suggested (she is a mom of 4 and has it down!) that I try putting him to sleep on his tummy wondering if that would help since he would scrunch up his legs which could help work some of it out. You could not have paid me enough to do this with Aiden. I would (and did) sacrifice every minute of sleep certain that he would die if I put him to sleep on his tummy. When my mom and sister put my niece on hers I was mortified.

But when Kelly suggested I found myself immediately feeling like it it could work it was worth a shot. I knew he could lift his head easily so I wasn't afraid. The first night I did it was the first night he slept for 3 hours straight. Alright then...tummy sleeping it is. He will not sleep any other way.

This parenting thing is such an amazing experience. And I find that I keep growing and becoming more confident in my own parenting. I know I will make lots of mistakes along the way. Some day Aid and Grant will be teenagers and full of feedback for me, as I had for my parents. But I think I'm doing ok with them. If I do nothing else right they will know how much I loved them.