The Jubers

Nothing reassures me more about how I’m handling Clara’s sleep patterns than when she starts sleeping through the night on her own after a week or more of regular night waking and nursing. It builds my confidence that I’m doing what is best for her by responding to her at night, contrary to what many [...]

The Baby Book: Everything you need to know about your baby from birth to age two… in 768 pages…yep, that should cover everything. From baby care basics to infant feeding and nutrition to “contemporary parenting” to infant development and behavior to baby safety and health, there is a wealth of helpful info that I have [...]

There are times in the day when I need to get stuff done. I need to prepare for work. I need to clean the house, do laundry, figure out what to cook tomorrow, pay bills… waste time on facebook (hey, I’m being honest here). During the day, I love it when she takes a good [...]

Last night was night 7 of the “gentle” shuffle, as opposed to the cry it out all alone method. The first 5 nights were actually very peaceful. I thought this was going to be a breeze. But it started to go downhill on night 6 and last night was just awful. Writing is so cathartic [...]

So this is a very long post. I am writing about each night of the Sleep Lady Shuffle, which can take up to 2 weeks. The first few nights are pretty boring actually. Night 6 is when the drama begins… Sleep Lady Shuffle Night 1 I’m doing the Sleep Lady Shuffle from Kim West’s book [...]

Sleep, oh sleep. It’s our biggest challenge. I don’t even know where to start other than it’s been a journey the past 11 months. It’s 3:00 in the morning and after being up and down out of bed for the past hour and a half now, I’ve decided I might as well get my thoughts [...]