I babysat for my grand baby Sweet Pea on Wednesday. His momma had some errands to run. Sweet Pea is an easy baby in my estimation. He will actually lay on the couch and look at things without anything in his mouth or anyone entertaining him. He has a good an easygoing nature. I won't make comparisons with his daddy as a baby here, but you might use your imagination if you like. Sweet Pea apparently takes after his momma.
Sweet Pea was needing a nap and fighting sleep as babies do. It seems to be in the DNA with babies, wanting to remain awake, so as not to miss anything. He is a baby who doesn't seem to have a strong sucking need. He feeds and then he is done. He uses a pacifier, but when he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. Now in my mothering experience that would have put me in a pickle, a pickle, I say, because my baby could generally only be coaxed to sleep nursing or riding in the car. Or at least that is the way I remember it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures so, I tried something, I sang to him and it put him to sleep, to sleep I say! When he started to wake slightly as I put him down, I sang some more and he went right back to sleep. It was like a miracle. I don't remember ever singing my long ago baby to sleep. I am not sure I ever tried it. I am sure that it never worked if I did.
Should I possibly record my golden sleepy tones so that others could benefit and their babies could magically go to sleep? Nah. The thing I know about babies is that all of them are different and also, something that works one day is likely not going to work another time. But, when something works, rejoice!
Sweet Pea was needing a nap and fighting sleep as babies do. It seems to be in the DNA with babies, wanting to remain awake, so as not to miss anything. He is a baby who doesn't seem to have a strong sucking need. He feeds and then he is done. He uses a pacifier, but when he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. Now in my mothering experience that would have put me in a pickle, a pickle, I say, because my baby could generally only be coaxed to sleep nursing or riding in the car. Or at least that is the way I remember it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures so, I tried something, I sang to him and it put him to sleep, to sleep I say! When he started to wake slightly as I put him down, I sang some more and he went right back to sleep. It was like a miracle. I don't remember ever singing my long ago baby to sleep. I am not sure I ever tried it. I am sure that it never worked if I did.
Should I possibly record my golden sleepy tones so that others could benefit and their babies could magically go to sleep? Nah. The thing I know about babies is that all of them are different and also, something that works one day is likely not going to work another time. But, when something works, rejoice!