Yup, nighttime requires different parenting skills hence “nighttime parenting”. It all has to do with your babies sleep habits and helping them back to sleep when they wake. I think I am failing in this department. Why?

Well, everytime Tyler wakes I nurse him back to sleep. Now, when he was younger and hungry – this was what you did. Apparently at his current age, he shoudn’t need to nurse. I have a big boy – so if he wakes up around 6 hours since he went to bed, I will assume that his is hungry and have no problem feeding him.

The problem is that he wakes up every 2 to 3 hours. Is he hungry? Is it teething pain? Is it his stuffy nose? Do I want to troubleshooting this at 3 AM? I want to get back to sleep as quickly as possible, so I just put Tyler on the boob.

The worry is that I setting myself up to ALWAYS have the nurse him back to sleep. Ug – but I am so tired these days that I don’t have the energy to troubleshoot or try some other way to get him back to sleep. Also, I don’t want to wake Chris, so I want to keep the baby quiet.

Craziness I tell you… I can’t wait to be a grandma and chuckling to myself asmy own kids tackle these issues..