Wednesday, May 20, 2009

You go, Papa Jo

Very often I (and I think a lot of moms) get obsessed with trying to do everything themselves -- I'll do that! No, I do it like this. No, you can't do that. She doesn't like that. I know everything!

I admit that I have become a little bit like that with Grace and I don't like that. I need to give Sejin some time to find his own ways of doing things with her, especially in the event that I have to return to work. So two nights ago I was having huge trouble putting her to sleep. Three hours later I said, "You give it a try." And he did.

He came back and she was sleeping. What did you do, Sejin? He turned down all the lights to pitch dark (I usually leave a dim light on), covered her bumper pads with a towel, swaddled her, put on some lavender aroma oil, put one of my worn T-shirts in the corner of her crib, and left the room. She slept.

Where have you been for the last almost 5 months??!! Oh yeah...I've been pushing you away! Silly, silly, silly...

From here on in I'm ready to accept any help or suggestions from Sejin. I really have to start giving him more credit.

Last night I used his techniques, and although she didn't go down right away, she did sleep from 10pm through 'til 5am, the longest stretch in a while. Who knew?

Do we have a stay-at-home-dad in the making here? Stay tuned to find out...

3 comments:

MommyCha said...

It took until Thomas was 10 months old until I let Tom try putting him down!
But it worked! 5 minutes and he was asleep and slept for hours! No more marathon feeding sessions, sleeping on the boob, with me desperately trying to escape! The past 2 days Tom even slept with him and he slept the WHOLE night, until around 6am!
What the heck was I thinking not letting Tom do this earlier!
We live and learn! Good for you guys for figuring it out earlier!

not-so-quiet mom said...

What an awesome dad!

Mama Seoul said...

He looks awesome with Grace in the Ergo! Go Sejin!