Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I Might Stop Blogging About Sleep Sometime Soon

Today we have an appointment at the St. Luke's Sleep Center with pediatric nurse extraordinaire Nancy Burkenmeier.  We've visited her once before when Jack was 8 or 9 months old & waking up every hour.  Last time it took us 3 months to get in.  This time they had an appointment the next day.  She gave us a plan to follow & he was happily sleeping through the night in less than a week.  I kind of knew myself what to do with an infant, but just needed her to kick my butt to do it.

I, however, have no idea what to do with a kid who is almost 3.  Do we let him cry it out or will that freak him out so much that he'll really never want to sleep in his bed again?  All I know is that the kid has no idea how to relax & go to sleep & it's up to us to help him with that.

We really do have other things going on in our lives.  I really do have other, much more exciting things to blog about.  But, the sleep issue is so all-encompassing that it's hard to write about anything else.

So, hopefully coming soon will be a sleep success story, photos of the Dan Zanes concert we went to as a family (I had been looking forward to this concert for almost a year & it rocked), and some other cute photos of the boy.  

5 comments:

cagedwisdom said...

Wilco and Dan Zane. You guys have some range.

John Hendrix said...

His name is ZANES.

2WeeMonsters said...

touchy, touchy, John!

I hope you soon have such good sleep that you are taking it for granted!

Christine Gordon said...

So, did she do her magic?

Andi said...

she did! we now have a personalized step by step plan to get him falling asleep without us. i'm seeing the light. john's starting tomorrow...