It's amusing how much my perspectives on parenting have changed since I was pregnant...
We have two strollers, but I now believe in carrying my baby not pushing him around.
We have teething rings and orajel, but instead wyatt gets chamomile tea bags (works so much better).
We have tons of formula "just in case", but now I have a stock pile of breastmilk "just in case."
I wanted wyatt in his own room, but I like having him in ours now so I can hear him in the middle of the night. ......Which I attribute everyone's sleep to.. You see, we don't have any nights of baby baird screaming alllllllll night keeping everyone awake because he usually just makes a few noises to let us know he's awake and needs something. And the majority of the time, once baby is fed and changed, he will lay in his crib and fall asleep on his own. The best was last weekend when he sang himself to sleep :)
However, I've had people suggest the ferber method and letting babies soothe themselves to sleep.. I don't know about anyone else, but I just feel like the worst mom in the world letting him lay there and cry!! I feel like, there must be some need I'm not meeting.. some reason he's unhappy. Because I know that baby, and I know he will lay there and go to sleep on his own. If he's crying, there's a reason. So... I believe in getting my baby out of that crib and holding him and comforting him. I want Wyatt to feel safe. I want him to feel like if he's not happy, mommy or daddy will do what we can to make him feel good again.
I also believe in natural remedies. Why kick the immune system when it's down? God gave us these things in our environment to use, why not use them? Like I mentioned before, Wy gets a chamomile tea bag when he's fussy from teething - it's a naturally calming herb that also helps with gum inflammation and baby would rather chew on that than the 5 dollar chew toys we bought! And when it comes to sickness, why wipe his natural fighting mechanisms out with medications when I can give him an extra dose of the stuff that's gonna help him fight off whatever he's caught? Anyway, that's just my personal beliefs. I want him to be as healthy as possible, and being able to fight diseases is a key part of that. Sickness is inevitable. How you deal with sickness is the key.
OK, I'm done for the day. I just keep getting/seeing advice and my "motherly" instinct tells me I'm already doing what is right for my baby. I must be doing something right to have a baby in over the 75th growth percentile and one that is extremely happy and sociable :)
We have two strollers, but I now believe in carrying my baby not pushing him around.
We have teething rings and orajel, but instead wyatt gets chamomile tea bags (works so much better).
We have tons of formula "just in case", but now I have a stock pile of breastmilk "just in case."
I wanted wyatt in his own room, but I like having him in ours now so I can hear him in the middle of the night. ......Which I attribute everyone's sleep to.. You see, we don't have any nights of baby baird screaming alllllllll night keeping everyone awake because he usually just makes a few noises to let us know he's awake and needs something. And the majority of the time, once baby is fed and changed, he will lay in his crib and fall asleep on his own. The best was last weekend when he sang himself to sleep :)
However, I've had people suggest the ferber method and letting babies soothe themselves to sleep.. I don't know about anyone else, but I just feel like the worst mom in the world letting him lay there and cry!! I feel like, there must be some need I'm not meeting.. some reason he's unhappy. Because I know that baby, and I know he will lay there and go to sleep on his own. If he's crying, there's a reason. So... I believe in getting my baby out of that crib and holding him and comforting him. I want Wyatt to feel safe. I want him to feel like if he's not happy, mommy or daddy will do what we can to make him feel good again.
I also believe in natural remedies. Why kick the immune system when it's down? God gave us these things in our environment to use, why not use them? Like I mentioned before, Wy gets a chamomile tea bag when he's fussy from teething - it's a naturally calming herb that also helps with gum inflammation and baby would rather chew on that than the 5 dollar chew toys we bought! And when it comes to sickness, why wipe his natural fighting mechanisms out with medications when I can give him an extra dose of the stuff that's gonna help him fight off whatever he's caught? Anyway, that's just my personal beliefs. I want him to be as healthy as possible, and being able to fight diseases is a key part of that. Sickness is inevitable. How you deal with sickness is the key.
OK, I'm done for the day. I just keep getting/seeing advice and my "motherly" instinct tells me I'm already doing what is right for my baby. I must be doing something right to have a baby in over the 75th growth percentile and one that is extremely happy and sociable :)
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