Patting her to sleep...
During my confinement period, when my mom was staying with me, she will mostly volunteer to pat bbTara to slp. She has her own hokkien version lullaby and bbTara fell asleep easily indeed.
After she's gone, I handle everything on my own (especially when livingstone is at work), and I had to seriously make bbTara slp as much as possible, so that I hv time to do things such as the laundry, my lunch, preparing for dinner, express milk (like a cow), sweep the floor, and of cos update my blog. =)
Now that I have catched her pattern, I can make her fall asleep quite fast (at home, that is), from the initial stage of carrying her and rocking her in my arms, humming lullabies such as 'jingle bells' and 'rock a bye baby', I now 'promotoed' to just throwing her into her cot, and patting her w/o lullaby, till she falls asleep. Can be quite a fast process, however, sometimes it could take me almost an hr. Once I fell asleep standing while patting her(woke up when I lost my balance), NO JOKE, and her eyes were still wide open. HAHAHA....well, life is not always a bed of roses, so i guess i pretty much count my blessings that she sleeps well most of the time. =)
Another thing to rejoice abt - she now sleeps from 9pm onwards all the way to past midnight, at most times, she wakes up between 2am-3am for milk, thereafter, she will con't to sleep past 6am. So technically, she now wakes up only once in the wee hours... yippeeeeeeeeeee! =D
Another series of fotos taken while I burped her....
she's my adorable bb....=)
After she's gone, I handle everything on my own (especially when livingstone is at work), and I had to seriously make bbTara slp as much as possible, so that I hv time to do things such as the laundry, my lunch, preparing for dinner, express milk (like a cow), sweep the floor, and of cos update my blog. =)
Now that I have catched her pattern, I can make her fall asleep quite fast (at home, that is), from the initial stage of carrying her and rocking her in my arms, humming lullabies such as 'jingle bells' and 'rock a bye baby', I now 'promotoed' to just throwing her into her cot, and patting her w/o lullaby, till she falls asleep. Can be quite a fast process, however, sometimes it could take me almost an hr. Once I fell asleep standing while patting her(woke up when I lost my balance), NO JOKE, and her eyes were still wide open. HAHAHA....well, life is not always a bed of roses, so i guess i pretty much count my blessings that she sleeps well most of the time. =)
Another thing to rejoice abt - she now sleeps from 9pm onwards all the way to past midnight, at most times, she wakes up between 2am-3am for milk, thereafter, she will con't to sleep past 6am. So technically, she now wakes up only once in the wee hours... yippeeeeeeeeeee! =D
Another series of fotos taken while I burped her....
she's my adorable bb....=)
Labels: bbtara, parenthood, sleep pattern
