Patient...am I?
Putting Baby Garreth to sleep at times can be a challenge. He can be really tired sometime but after cuddling him in our arms or patting him on the butt in the playpen for coming to 30 to 45mins, he still refuses to close his eyes and go to dreamland.
On good days, he can drift into deep sleep pretty soon, like 10-15mins of patting, but on bad days, how hard you have tried, he still open his go-lee (marble) eyes and stare at you blankly though he keeps on yawning hard. I don't mind the 10-15mins of patting, as long as it helps to get him into a couple of hours of sleep, but longer than that, usually will drive me nuts. The time spent patting and coaxing him to sleep actually eats up the time I need to do other stuff like housework, bathing, or even resting, and it kinda made me lose my patience on the little one. There was even an incident where I nearly wanted to tear my hair and raise my voice at the boy after trying to put him to sleep for nearly an hour!
I want to clarify that this is not my usual self as normally my patience tolerance level is quite high. Hubby Goh also noticed this change in me and whenever he sees me getting pek chek cos' Baby Garreth refuses to sleep, he will take over the job and manages to put him to sleep successfully. All the while, I thought that I'm patient, but am seriously wrong cos' Hubby Goh is still the ultimate winner. How bad Baby Garreth has fusses, Hubby Goh do have the patience to calm and coax him down and eventually put him to sleep. Feel so guilty on why I'm behaving this way now. Is it becos' of the hormones changing? Is it that I'm too confined at home that I feel pissed? Or is it lack of sleep and rest? Sigh..I really dunno...and I hope Baby Garreth will not hate me.
Anyway, had a good talk with Hubby Goh today and he encouraged me to be mentally strong. One trick he shared was whenever we are trying to put our boy to sleep, juz keep on reminding ourselves that we must be PATIENT, PATIENT, PATIENT...he's only an innocent baby and it's useless getting pissed at him cos' he will never know what is right or wrong at this young age.
Hmm..guess I have to work on that..I dun wanna be a bad mummy :(
On good days, he can drift into deep sleep pretty soon, like 10-15mins of patting, but on bad days, how hard you have tried, he still open his go-lee (marble) eyes and stare at you blankly though he keeps on yawning hard. I don't mind the 10-15mins of patting, as long as it helps to get him into a couple of hours of sleep, but longer than that, usually will drive me nuts. The time spent patting and coaxing him to sleep actually eats up the time I need to do other stuff like housework, bathing, or even resting, and it kinda made me lose my patience on the little one. There was even an incident where I nearly wanted to tear my hair and raise my voice at the boy after trying to put him to sleep for nearly an hour!
I want to clarify that this is not my usual self as normally my patience tolerance level is quite high. Hubby Goh also noticed this change in me and whenever he sees me getting pek chek cos' Baby Garreth refuses to sleep, he will take over the job and manages to put him to sleep successfully. All the while, I thought that I'm patient, but am seriously wrong cos' Hubby Goh is still the ultimate winner. How bad Baby Garreth has fusses, Hubby Goh do have the patience to calm and coax him down and eventually put him to sleep. Feel so guilty on why I'm behaving this way now. Is it becos' of the hormones changing? Is it that I'm too confined at home that I feel pissed? Or is it lack of sleep and rest? Sigh..I really dunno...and I hope Baby Garreth will not hate me.
Anyway, had a good talk with Hubby Goh today and he encouraged me to be mentally strong. One trick he shared was whenever we are trying to put our boy to sleep, juz keep on reminding ourselves that we must be PATIENT, PATIENT, PATIENT...he's only an innocent baby and it's useless getting pissed at him cos' he will never know what is right or wrong at this young age.
Hmm..guess I have to work on that..I dun wanna be a bad mummy :(
posted by sengmook @ 8:25:00 PM
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