NOT FOR US: Me and Tim sure make cute babies. But there's a trade off. In exchange for these uber cute little ones, we need to be tortured for the first 4-5 months. The tool of torture is the yoga ball. With Jasper, for the first 5 months, the only way we could settle him down was bouncing on the big, blue exercise ball. Sure enough at around 4ish weeks, Jade could not be lulled to sleep with just the boob. She, following her big brother's lead, needed to fall asleep with ball and then once asleep had to sleep on my chest (or Tim's chest). I remember the fateful night. She woke to eat and wouldn't fall back asleep. I walked her around and around the kitchen until I was beyond exhausted. The next night it took even more walking to get her back asleep. Oh no, the dreaded ball needs to come back out. Jadie (because by now, her name has become Jadie) was a gassy, colicky, unhappy baby. She cried in the Baby Bjorn, she slept for very short periods of time (and never on her own), and she was always tired and hungry. And I don't mean regular newborn stuff, I mean, she wasn't enjoying breastfeeding (my milk came out fast and hard) and she never got good chunks of sleep so she'd need a nap every hour to an hour and a half. That is a lot of bouncing on the ball. Under this layer of chub, I secretly have 6 pack abs!
NOT FOR US: Me and Tim sure make cute babies. But there's a trade off. In exchange for these uber cute little ones, we need to be tortured for the first 4-5 months. The tool of torture is the yoga ball. With Jasper, for the first 5 months, the only way we could settle him down was bouncing on the big, blue exercise ball. Sure enough at around 4ish weeks, Jade could not be lulled to sleep with just the boob. She, following her big brother's lead, needed to fall asleep with ball and then once asleep had to sleep on my chest (or Tim's chest). I remember the fateful night. She woke to eat and wouldn't fall back asleep. I walked her around and around the kitchen until I was beyond exhausted. The next night it took even more walking to get her back asleep. Oh no, the dreaded ball needs to come back out. Jadie (because by now, her name has become Jadie) was a gassy, colicky, unhappy baby. She cried in the Baby Bjorn, she slept for very short periods of time (and never on her own), and she was always tired and hungry. And I don't mean regular newborn stuff, I mean, she wasn't enjoying breastfeeding (my milk came out fast and hard) and she never got good chunks of sleep so she'd need a nap every hour to an hour and a half. That is a lot of bouncing on the ball. Under this layer of chub, I secretly have 6 pack abs!
