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Ideas for getting baby to sleep or just enjoying the down-time

Activity #192: Step away from the computer, lady

November 9, 2006

Seriously. Is someone you love napping right now? If you click on one more link, you’re just depriving yourself from an opportunity to lay down. I do this to myself every day. I’m so so so tired and then the kid’s asleep and I’m clicking away. The few times I’ve been disciplined, it’s been so [...]

Activity #59: Use Internet for errands

July 24, 2006

So, it’s not cool to leave the house while your baby sleeps, but you can use those snippets of time to get lots of things done. To name a few… Buy groceries Pay bills with online banking Buy stamps Stock up on diapers “Window shop” Check the AbsurdlyCool Freebie Finder or UnderTag to find coupons, [...]

Ideas for getting baby to sleep or just enjoying the down-time

Activity #397: Drive by your hospital

June 29, 2006

I believe this is the third driving suggestion we’ve made, so I must apologize to my friend Nikki if she’s reading this, because baby Lennox does nothing but scream in his car seat, so I don’t think she’d ever see this as a good suggestion. Who knows though– in a couple months, he could change. [...]

Activity #227: Drive and listen

June 8, 2006

If you are a naptime driver, you might want to consider getting some entertainment on board for your daily drives. My friend Sarah was happy with NPR while Gabriella napped, but if you’re high-tech, try some podcasts. If you are low-tech, try some books on tape. I’m a new iPod owner, so I have been [...]

Ideas for getting baby to sleep or just enjoying the down-time

Activity #42: Observe baby’s natural rhythms

March 11, 2006

For me, a recovering project manager and bossy big sister, I couldn’t just watch… I had to count and track and try to manage. There are fun baby tracking books with cute covers and symbols, super software, web sites that help, and also homegrown spreadsheets. If this sort of obsessive tracking appeals to you, take [...]

Activity #89: Drive-through

December 12, 2005

If baby likes to sleep in the carseat, it is great to patronize nearby drive-through businesses so you can have a destination. Maybe it’s an In-N-Out or a drive-through Starbucks. If you’re creative and persuasive, you might get normal businesses to serve you curbside if business is slow. As I was doing our environment a [...]

Ideas for getting baby to sleep or just enjoying the down-time

Activity #249: Bust out the Baby Beatles

December 10, 2005

We have a great CD of Beatles music lullabied for babies… it’s calm, instrumental, familiar yada yada yada. We bought it in the early days when we were still trying anything to help Holden sleep (before we settled on white noise). Anyway, it has a surprising second life. On the weekends when we can’t get [...]

Activity #181: Try 4 days

October 22, 2005

I am the first person to get superstitious about what works and does not work with Holden. Try a new thing, schedule, toy, routine, etc for at least four days before writing it off (or on).

Ideas for getting baby to sleep or just enjoying the down-time

Activity #98: Practice different routines

October 18, 2005

When it comes to bedtime for older babies, I read that consistency is key. THOU SHALT NOT DEVIATE FROM THE NIGHTLY ROUTINE; but how’s a new parent supposed to know what works without trial and error? For us grown-ups, it may have taken 5 years of living alone to perfect the ritual of “eat ice [...]

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