Negotiations with a mobile baby

Kendall in the bathtub/babyjail

I have this “formal” room at the front of our new house.  Of course, we really have no use for anything “formal” these days, so it’s served various other roles since moving in.  First it was a storage room for all the boxes we needed to unpack, then it was a staging room for all [...]

God bless you, Dr. Ferber

It worked!  Well, I guess I should say it’s working.  After speed reading some key chapters in Dr. Ferber’s book last week, we started implementing the modified version of crying it out this weekend.  After just a couple days, I slept for 8.5 hours, pretty much uninterrupted, for the first time last night in I [...]

Doing my part for the cloth diaper revolution!

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This is a post that’s been months in the making and I’m so freaking happy to finally be able to publish it. It all began after the two posts I made on our cloth diapering experience (here and here). I was amazed at the response and interest, and have used those posts many times since [...]

What is my sleep philosophy?

I was asked this in a previous post, so allow me to answer.  I believe in the power of sleep.  I cherish it and think it is a vital part of a healthy life.  I also believe that preventing someone from sleeping is a form of torture and that willingly preventing yourself from sleeping is [...]