The Sleep Situation

This sleeping situation came up yesterday in the comments, so I thought I would post about it. Honestly, I don't think it's going very well. My plan pre-birth was to have him sleeping in his own room by the time I went back to work. Didn't happen.

Apparently, I subscribe somewhat to the Attachment Parenting theory. In our house, this is also referred to as "smother mother," or simply, "Jewish mother."

The way this has played out in MacBaby's sleeping habits is that he sleeps in the bed with us. At first, we chose this route not out of any sort of defined parenting techniques -- I simply needed to get some sleep and the dude would NOT sleep in his Pack 'n Play.

Then, things got better and he would sleep in his Pack 'n Play until about midnight. But, then he started rolling from his back to his stomach and everything went haywire again. In his sleep, he would roll and wake up and cry.

I suppose I could leave him in there to cry himself to sleep, but, in the big picture, he's still a little baby. They say that all babies are born premature compared to other species who pop out rearing to go. So, by that logic, he didn't really come into his own until three months, which means he's really only been an alert human being for two months.

At some point, he will sleep in his own crib, in his own room. As for the how and when, your guess is as good as mine.