I think DJ wants to be on a schedule more than I do. I had always tried to feed him every three hours. But now I'm trying to keep to the same wake up time every day and settle into a pattern of feed time, wake time, sleep time. It's hard to come up with activities that are both good for him and fun for me. I like book time. I try to read to him while I'm breast feeding some of the time because it takes a long time and I'm bored. He doesn't seem to mind. Sometimes I watch TV or play video games. I'm bad, I know. But if you were feeding for 60 minutes instead of 30, you'd try to find stuff to do as well. There's only so much I can stare at him, especially when he starts closing his eyes. I try to keep him awake but, it's seriously hard.
Anyway, the 8 am wake time is going fairly well. I had a bit of trouble for a couple of nights there because I was letting him sleep to his fill at night. Then he'd get up for a 6 am feed, leaving 30 - 45 minutes to sleep before the next feeding. Not so good. So I've got B watching the clock in the early midnight time so that we can keep DJ on a strict 8, 11, 2, 5 schedule. Well, last night after a rough day (visitors then dragging the kid out to the "mall" for an evening walk) I didn't have wake him on schedule, he did it all himself. Damn. I wanted to sleep in a little bit this morning. Fifteen minutes past wake time and he was like, "yo mom, it's hungry in here." Damn.
I really like our morning routines. I take him on a walk around 9 or 9:30, depending on how timely I am with baby breakfast. Either way, I walk for 30 minutes making circles around our neighborhood. If you know me, you know I hate walking. I still do, but I know it's necessary. And I'm loathe to admit I like the morning routine. It's quiet. Everyone's already left for work except the peeps who stay home. There's not a whole lot going on. And even though today was Sunday, I didn't see hide nor hair of the baptist church crowd (there's a baptist church across the street from our development). I just wandered, walking at my own pace, enjoying the fresh air, which is rare to have here.
The only problem is that the baby is getting HOT. Well, he's in a long sleeve shirt and a long sleeve sleep and play body suit. It's kind of warm making. I'm going to try him tomorrow in a short sleeve onesie and pants. See if that helps. I'll need to make a couple of morning walk outfits. I might could get away with those short sleeve one piece short sets we've got now. I think we got them from B's sister.
In anycase, DJ seems to be taking to the schedule really well. Mom thought he'd have trouble adjusting but I don't see that at all. He seems to want the timeliness even when I'm willing to let it slide. The only this is he likes to sleep in a bit. I'm trying not to let him so he gets used to going down in a timely fashion. It seems to be working. The nights are getting easier. B and I seem te be getting into the rhythm and tag teaming well. B is getting a lot more sleep with the new morning routine. DJ hardly has time to make a fuss at 8 am, what with me on the alarm clock. And then he is quiet till 11 for the next feeding, since he usually falls asleep on the walk and then goes right back to sleep when put down after.
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