

might as well jump
2008-05-07, 8:43 a.m.
The baby is sleeping three hours at one time when he goes down at night now. The problem is, the first time he wakes up he expects to come into our bed and breastfeed not out of need, but out of habit. The problem is he won't go back to sleep if I don't let him breastfeed. I don't know how we're going to break this habit. The problem is at night my husband and I are so tired we'd much rather just give him what he wants than to resist to break him of the habit.
I know this is one of a new parents greatest challenges. Lack of sleep makes you give in even when you know it's not the right thing to do.
I want my son to be able to fall asleep on his own. It's bad enough that I've continued to let him use the pacifier as a sleep aid. What is so funny to me is that if I put more than one pacifier in his crib at night, to ensure that he'll always have one to put in his mouth if he wakes up, he plays this game of switching them off, one after the other, back and forth like that for a while before falling back to sleep.
He's such a character!

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