Last night we went through our bedtime routine. As I walked away from him he started crying. I sat down for another minute or two with ‘Shhh’ and ‘Doe doe’. He continue to play around and I told him to go to sleep, covered him and walked out. He cried, but not for very long [...]
Last night we hit a bit of a wobble at the going to sleep part. I followed the normal process and as soon as he was done messing around with his bottle I handed him his dummy, switched the light off, covered him with the duvet, said good night and walked out. He started crying. [...]
So we were slacking off on going to gym for a while. There was a week or two or three that we didn’t go at all, or went very sporadically. We’ve been going every now and then in the past three weeks or so. For the last two weeks we went twice and we intend [...]
Last night I followed the same process as the previous nights, but I thought I’d try my luck with walking out earlier. He drank his bottle and while he was drinking I read some bible stories to him. He was messing around with his bottle quite a bit (pointing at it, talking to it, etc), [...]
Friday night was quite an epic fail. The kids had had a birthday party at the day mother that day and Babyice had apparently eaten a lot of ‘kak’ (meaning cake, his own words). He was also coughing quite a bit and I was worried that he might be getting sick. You can’t sleep train [...]
I went to Pilates last night and when I got home Rudi was sitting with Babyice in his room while he drank his bottle. I still needed to shower and wash my hair and it was already getting late, so I left Rudi to it while I did that. When I was done Babyice was [...]
Last night Rudi went off to darts and it was time to fight the sleep battle again. I did the same I did the night before. Everything was ready in the room (I even remembered to put a towel down on the floor just in case), including the bottle filled with water. While I [...]
Last night it was my turn to wake up for Babyice. I was determined. After Rudi’s caving the previous night I wanted to put my foot down and put a stop to this nonsense once and for all. I was asked on Twitter to blog about the process so that other parents could learn from our [...]
This weekend was a very expensive one for me. As mentioned before, we decided to put Babyice into a “big boy bed” hoping that it might alleviate some of his trouble sleeping. The bed itself wasn’t too expensive since we bought it from someone advertising it on gumtree. All the costs starting adding up [...]
We have been having sleep issues with Babyice that have become progressively worse of late. He is waking up constantly and was drinking up to two extra bottles a night, which he does not need. Around Sunday, Rudi had reached his limit and became very impatient with him (in the middle of the night). This [...]
