Well I am feeling much better today. The fact that I am still up, and it's 9:02pm proves that. My bedtime the last several days has been between 7-8pm. Speaking of sleep, Nadia only had 2 naps today. I figured that would be the case because her first one was really long - TWO full hours!! If this starts to be a trend then I'm going to move bath time to evening time as that will be her longest stretch of wake time. Today she woke up from her 2nd nap at 2:15, and I didn't put her down until about 6:45pm so that was a long wake time for her considering usually she's only up about 2 hours at a time. The only problem with moving bath time to before bed is that Paul has been nervous to give her a bath, and he puts her to bed on Monday and Tuesday nights. This week is my spring break though so I'll be putting her to bed every night this week. Maybe he will get brave enough to give her a bath. We shall see. :-) I did find it still rather ironic that on a day I was feeling better AND Paul was home she chose to have a super long nap. It still blows me away that the two days I felt the lousiest she slept far less than usual. Oh well. We survived!
My question is how to get Nadia to drink from a sippy cup? I have tried 2 different sippy cups - both are by Gerber. One I bought recently is for younger babies (I think it said 7 months and she's 8 months old). I've tried water, apple juice, and formula and so far she hasn't figured out how to get any liquid from the cup to her mouth. Any advice? I obviously want to start transitioning in that direction as I plan to wean her off of bottles over the next few months. She actually seems to prefer eating solid foods lately over the bottle except for first thing when she wakes up in the morning. She amazes me with the vast quantities of food she can eat lately in terms of fruit, veggies, yogurt, cereal, etc.!
In addition to feeling much better in terms of the virus I've had the last 6 days, I have to say my left wrist is 100% back to normal. YAHOO! I am soooooooooooo thankful for the steroid shot. I wish I had it a few months ago. Better late than never though!!!
5 comments:
Practice Practice Practice! That is the best way to go on the sippy cup. Offer it to her regularly, she will eventually figure it out!
Although it's been a while, I kind of remember it taking a little time before my kids mastered the sippy cup. You just have to keep giving it to her and she'll get it.
It took Henry a while to figure it out, too. I would give him a sippy cup with his meals so he could mess around with it and he eventually got the hang of it.
I'm so glad you're feeling better!
Have you tried a sippy cup with a soft spout so it is more like sucking? That's what worked for Brett, but now I can't get him to transition to a regular sippy. I figure we'll just go straight to a cup...eventually.
The first "sippy" he used was a Nuby - almost like a nipple, then we moved to the soft spouted Gerber.
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