STRUGGLES OF BEING A MOM-Sleeping

Hello mommies out there.

I recently became a mom 2 years ago and let me tell you is NOT easy. I had always wanted to be a mother really, since I was a kid I was always playing house and taking care of a baby. Reality us girls we are from a young age being shaped for the big role in the future to come BUT no-one tells you its gonna be so hard.

My gordito(my son nickname) he is an amazing child to be honest. Very well behaved and easy to look after, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have he`s times of desperation where you don`t know what else to do.

So as a first time mom to another out there I would like to share some of my experience in the topic of sleeping and how I had to deal each phase of he`s life till now.

Phase 1: New born

So here is a little insight in my situation. When gordito was born we were dealing with mold, at the house we were renting at the time, which made us having to get out ASAP and move to my in-laws house for the time being. Over at their house because of lack of rooms, we slept in the sofa for the first month of he`s life. Which he was cuddled in my arms every night. By the time we got a new house we didn't had set up the crib neither, soooo we had to bed share where my husband would sleep on one end, I was in the middle and the baby in another end since it was next to the wall so he wouldn't fall. The thing here ended in him NOT liking the crib by the time it was ready and he would just wake up an hour or two after he was in it, ending in him sleeping with us. At a point I basically gave in and I just had him in bed with us.

Now what I want to talk about is the different techniques that I had to use in order to MAKE him fall asleep.

This one was the easiest one of all since he was a newborn and would fall asleep instant. The technique was just be in bed with him, give him milk and sing him a song. Easy right! I mean he really was an easy newborn in that part. He would wake up every two hours for milk tho, but he would go back to sleep pretty fast.

This method was good for about 3-4 months.

Phase 2: Baby

At this point he is around 4-5 months of age. Here he started to sleep longer in the nights, instead of waking up every 2 hours, he would wake up every 4 hours. During the nights same routine as before, a bottle of milk and a little song to make him go back to bed. But the technique for MAKING him go to bed in the first place was different. Here at this point I would hop in bed with him and feed him the bottle while I watched some tv. Good right!

This phase wasn't as bad and I got to have some entertainment myself. See I FROM THE GET-GO made him learn to fall asleep in noisy environment since I couldn't afford to be in a constant quiet place all the time, because the house is small and we have dogs.

Phase 3: Bigger

By this time he is around 10 months. He is now a little more aware of he`s surroundings and he even started to watch a little bit of tv himself(keep aware nothing I showed him was non-educational videos) So for this technique really he was the one that pretty much phased to it. See I kept trying to just make him fall asleep like we would normally but it wasn't happening, every time I would try to turn off the tv or even say lets go to bed...it was a big NO. So what ended up happening was that I would give him the bottle, lay down with him and I would put him a YouTube channel called BABY SENSORY. Let me tell you this channel is AMAZING. He would fall asleep ASAP, after watching one video. I definitely recommend this channel to any parent.

Phase 4: Toddler

The above technique lasted for a while, although sometimes he still wouldn't fall asleep because he wanted to continue watching videos as he grew older so I would try and rock him to bed in my rocking chair. Other times THAT wouldn't work either so I would change then to another type of sleeping video on YouTube. Sometime I would just get frustrated and just paused the video and tell him bed now, grab the bottle and he would pretty much fall asleep drinking it after throwing a small tantrum.

So you kind of have to see what is the best techniques for you as he starts to grow up.

In this phase he is now bigger around 1 year and a half and I pretty much just what I tried one day was shut everything off and no milk neither, because I wanted to rid him of drinking milk during the night, so he could sleep without waking up(which was a process ill tell you that). But so far has worked like a charm. He is now 2 years old and all I do is bring him in, turn off lights, tv, everything and say time for sleep. He jumps right to bed and falls asleep on he`s own.

This techniques are meant for moms in my situation where the baby did not liked nor was able to get on the crib, and had to result in bed sharing. I myself on my second child will deff try the crib hahaha. But its a lesson well learned and now I have experience in this scenario.

Well I hope you guys were able to gain some tips from my experience and I hope you mommas best of luck!!!

BYEEEEEE!!!