At the advice of our family doctor, Adam stayed home with Ilya this afternoon while I took my “mommy break.”\u00c2\u00a0 This is an uninterrupted two hour break where I get to stop being just mommy and focus on reconnecting with who I am.\u00c2\u00a0 I failed.\u00c2\u00a0 The first hour went great.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to the library and got a book then took off to a coffee shop to read and people watch.\u00c2\u00a0 After about an hour, though, I missed Adam and Ilya so much I came home.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I’ll do better next time.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that it was good for Adam, too.\u00c2\u00a0 He got to spend time alone with Ilya.<\/p>\n
We are trying to get Ilya on some sort of a schedule (also a recommendation of our doctor).\u00c2\u00a0 Last night, we began a bedtime routine and today we have planned nap times.\u00c2\u00a0 Even planning this, I was thinking there was no way an infant was going to fit into any schedule that I had planned for her, but I was so wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 After our bedtime routine last night, she slept 5 hours and she didn’t even kick me once during that time.\u00c2\u00a0 We got up at 8 and she has been so cooperative in napping when we want her to all day.\u00c2\u00a0 She is clearly gifted.\u00c2\u00a0 It probably helped that we made our schedule based on her sleepy times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the advice of our family doctor, Adam stayed home with Ilya this afternoon while I took my “mommy break.”\u00c2\u00a0 This is an uninterrupted two hour break where I get to stop being just mommy and focus on reconnecting with who I am.\u00c2\u00a0 I failed.\u00c2\u00a0 The first hour went great.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to the library […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}