Has anyone seen my specialty plates?

[Ron Swanson]

Trying to avoid that method if possible but we will see I guess. He is a pro at going to bed on time but whenever he wakes up at 2:30ish-4ish in the morning he refuses to sleep again in his crib.

He will sleep in our arms so deeply that the pacifier will fall out of his mouth but the instant his butt touches the crib sheet he loses his mind.

Not all that worried about it but would be nice to have a straight 6-7 hours of sleep again instead of two four hour chunks.

We had some of the same struggles. The doctor told us that you gotta let her cry it out. Doesn’t matter how long she cries, she’ll tire out and fall asleep eventually. The worst thing you can do is let her cry for two hours and then finally give in and go get her... then you’re just training her to keep crying because she knows you’ll eventually come get her. If she thinks it’s worthless/hopeless to cry, she will stop and just go to sleep.

It was tough for a night or two and now she sleeps through the night 90% of the time. Every once in a while she’ll wake up and start crying but we just ignore it and she’s asleep within 30 minutes usually.

Now we just need to figure out how to put her down by just putting her in her crib and letting her fall asleep on her own. We have to rock her to bed every night now and that’s a solid 20-30 minute process. My friends just drop their kid in their room and the kid just puts himself down. Amazing.

 

[SnoSki]

Back to vacation memories: anyone ever get to play the video games that some hotel rooms had?

 

[jake102]

We had some of the same struggles. The doctor told us that you gotta let her cry it out. Doesn’t matter how long she cries, she’ll tire out and fall asleep eventually. The worst thing you can do is let her cry for two hours and then finally give in and go get her... then you’re just training her to keep crying because she knows you’ll eventually come get her. If she thinks it’s worthless/hopeless to cry, she will stop and just go to sleep.

It was tough for a night or two and now she sleeps through the night 90% of the time. Every once in a while she’ll wake up and start crying but we just ignore it and she’s asleep within 30 minutes usually.

Now we just need to figure out how to put her down by just putting her in her crib and letting her fall asleep on her own. We have to rock her to bed every night now and that’s a solid 20-30 minute process. My friends just drop their kid in their room and the kid just puts himself down. Amazing.

Spot on. Babies are smarter than you think, they can sense weakness.

Do y'all have a bedtime routine (bath, books, bed)? We do the same routine every single night, and after the 5th book we put him in his crib. He occasionally whines a little for 2-3 minutes, but usually either just puts himself to sleep or "sings" for 10 minutes before falling asleep.

What we need to figure out is how to keep our child from getting some kind of sick every other week. Past two months have been ridiculous and of course that makes sleep terrible.

No hotel room video games, sounds like I missed out.

 

[Peacefrog]

Back to vacation memories: anyone ever get to play the video games that some hotel rooms had?

Hotels?

We stayed in motels. Only video games those rooms had was the one where you pay a quarter to make the bed vibrate. We made up games like Guess the Stain, Bed to Bed Long Jump and Who Can Make Dad Go Crazy First?

 

[tcudoc]

Pivoting back to sleep crutches... the boob is still one of mine. Take it away from me and you might die. Ferber method won't solve that problem.

I had a friend that was the same way. His wife finally drew the line and kicked his mom out of the bedroom.

 

[berryfrog95]

Next time y’all have another kid, swaddle the livin ship outta them each sleep time and don’t rock them to sleep. Let them fall asleep on own.

Both my kids made it to their crib in 3 & 4 mos!

 

[tcudoc]

For babies, I have heard good things about this Baby Merlin's Sleep Suit.

 

[Paradoxotaur]

For babies, I have heard good things about this Baby Merlin's Sleep Suit.

Yes, I highly recommend this! Our daughter started sleeping through the night with one of these at around 4 weeks and our son is making tons of progress right now at 5 weeks.

 

[netty2424]

For babies, I have heard good things about this Baby Merlin's Sleep Suit.

Damn. Wished we would’ve seen this. We always used sleep sacks. They worked well for us and were fortunate both kids didn’t have much issue falling asleep, but this looks a little safer than the sleep sacks we used.

 

[Shorty]

My friends just drop their kid in their room and the kid just puts himself down. Amazing.

That's about what my son is like. He's never had a problem going to bed or sleeping through the night. He was sleeping through the night by 3 months old. He's 1.5 years now. We don't have a hard set bedtime because when he starts getting tired you can ask if he's ready for bed and he will walk into his room to get put in bed and go right to sleep.

 

[Ron Swanson]

That's about what my son is like. He's never had a problem going to bed or sleeping through the night. He was sleeping through the night by 3 months old. He's 1.5 years now. We don't have a hard set bedtime because when he starts getting tired you can ask if he's ready for bed and he will walk into his room to get put in bed and go right to sleep.

 

[Ron Swanson]

For babies, I have heard good things about this Baby Merlin's Sleep Suit.

We used that and it was great. My mom had a friend at her church, a Nigerian couple, and they had a five or six-month-old that had never slept through the night one time and had the worst time sleeping. The parents were zombies and just miserable in life. My mom recommended that because she had seen us use it and the first night the kid slept and the parents were happy and sent us thank you notes because it changed their life

 

[jake102]

For babies, I have heard good things about this Baby Merlin's Sleep Suit.

It was 100% worthless for us. But certainly good for a lot of people (obviously).

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

We both typically fall asleep before our son.

 

[QuilterFrawg]

Geeze, who did Odell Beckham Jr. piss off?

 

[HFrog1999]

Back to vacation memories: anyone ever get to play the video games that some hotel rooms had?

I’ve been known to rent some of their movies, only for about 5 minutes at a time though.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

I’ve been known to rent some of their movies, only for about 5 minutes at a time though.

Me too and it seems like I was 3 of those

 

[TCURiggs]

Made some sketchy memories today, folks. Woke up this a.m. and tried to head to Angel Fire to retrieve my daughter's ski jacket that she left at our friend's condo, on the way to Red River to snowmobile, and we got stuck in the whiteout/blizzard that set in last night. Cars were stuck going up the mountain as we were going up, but we couldn't find a place to turn around... since we were going up switchbacks on a mountain, and we eventually got stuck on a corner going up the hill with several other cars. I made the call that I was going to get out in the blizzard and push/jump/spin my truck around in reverse to get us away from the ravine (no guardrail) that we had slid up against, so I told my wife to drive and just put it in reverse and do what I say. I hopped out and worked my arse off for a good 10 minutes and we got it turned around and went back down the mountain to salvage the day. There were about five other cars that were stuck and just watched me do a blizzard crossift workout without getting out to help, and they gave me a thumbs-up as we went down past them while they just waited on the tow trucks. I've driven in heavy snow/ice before, but I've never been in anything like that. It was insane... complete whiteout and couldn't see the road. The kids had no clue how sketchy that was, as my wife said they were laughing when I was bouncing on the back bumper to try to get some traction. My little country girl wife was terrified... leg was shaking while she was on the throttle, hoping we wouldn't run off into the ravine. It all worked out and we had a great day, but that was a lot. Vacations at this point in life aren't as care-free as I remember!

 

[PurplFrawg]

Made some sketchy memories today, folks. Woke up this a.m. and tried to head to Angel Fire to retrieve my daughter's ski jacket that she left at our friend's condo, on the way to Red River to snowmobile, and we got stuck in the whiteout/blizzard that set in last night. Cars were stuck going up the mountain as we were going up, but we couldn't find a place to turn around... since we were going up switchbacks on a mountain, and we eventually got stuck on a corner going up the hill with several other cars. I made the call that I was going to get out in the blizzard and push/jump/spin my truck around in reverse to get us away from the ravine (no guardrail) that we had slid up against, so I told my wife to drive and just put it in reverse and do what I say. I hopped out and worked my arse off for a good 10 minutes and we got it turned around and went back down the mountain to salvage the day. There were about five other cars that were stuck and just watched me do a blizzard crossift workout without getting out to help, and they gave me a thumbs-up as we went down past them while they just waited on the tow trucks. I've driven in heavy snow/ice before, but I've never been in anything like that. It was insane... complete whiteout and couldn't see the road. The kids had no clue how sketchy that was, as my wife said they were laughing when I was bouncing on the back bumper to try to get some traction. My little country girl wife was terrified... leg was shaking while she was on the throttle, hoping we wouldn't run off into the ravine. It all worked out and we had a great day, but that was a lot. Vacations at this point in life aren't as care-free as I remember!

 

[Purp]

Made some sketchy memories today, folks. Woke up this a.m. and tried to head to Angel Fire to retrieve my daughter's ski jacket that she left at our friend's condo, on the way to Red River to snowmobile, and we got stuck in the whiteout/blizzard that set in last night. Cars were stuck going up the mountain as we were going up, but we couldn't find a place to turn around... since we were going up switchbacks on a mountain, and we eventually got stuck on a corner going up the hill with several other cars. I made the call that I was going to get out in the blizzard and push/jump/spin my truck around in reverse to get us away from the ravine (no guardrail) that we had slid up against, so I told my wife to drive and just put it in reverse and do what I say. I hopped out and worked my arse off for a good 10 minutes and we got it turned around and went back down the mountain to salvage the day. There were about five other cars that were stuck and just watched me do a blizzard crossift workout without getting out to help, and they gave me a thumbs-up as we went down past them while they just waited on the tow trucks. I've driven in heavy snow/ice before, but I've never been in anything like that. It was insane... complete whiteout and couldn't see the road. The kids had no clue how sketchy that was, as my wife said they were laughing when I was bouncing on the back bumper to try to get some traction. My little country girl wife was terrified... leg was shaking while she was on the throttle, hoping we wouldn't run off into the ravine. It all worked out and we had a great day, but that was a lot. Vacations at this point in life aren't as care-free as I remember!

In 30 years your kids will be posting in this thread about how they love going on ski trips in the car bc their dad was a winter soldier super hero while everyone else on the mountain was a fairy.