Number one point that I am making today: Lexapro has saved me. I am so calm. I am so much happier. I am nicer to my husband. I am better with clients and students. My attention span is temporarily suffering, and I am a bit tired, and my face is twitching a little, but these side effects are all supposed to be temporary, sayeth my midwife. It gets better all the time, so I believe it.
But in the sleep realm, I am doing enormously better.
About 2 weeks ago, I gave in, got off my high horse and said, "you know what? a million people have told me letting a baby cry it out will work, so I am going to try it." Guess what? It worked. The first night he got up once, the second night twice, and since then he has had only one night that he has been up more than twice (that was last night, and he decided to practice rolling over in his sleep and kept hitting the side of the crib and waking himself up!).
Now, I LOVE bedtime. We have solids around 7, then a bath until he seems sleepy, then lotion and I nurse him in his diaper then put on his pj's, read him a few stories, rock him and sing him a lullaby, and put him down awake. And he goes to sleep on his own, with little or often no tears. I used to have to sing 3 lullabies to get him sleepy, and now I am lucky to make it to a second verse!
I am tired still from the meds, but not in a sleep-deprived kind of way. It's a different kind of tired - completely manageable and not frustrating.
I hope this is a continuing trend!
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