or for the love of little birds
Nov. 14th, 2010 06:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geek_anachronismOK, Wolfman's family is going through some 'things'.
His mother lived in Egypt with her new (30 years younger) husband for a few years, has not met 2 of the 3 grandchildren and sunk her life savings into it all. She's on her way back, probably for good.
One of his sister's is over there, she left her beloved dog with the other sister.
Who is currently staying with us, along with her toddler with Cerebral Palsy, because said dog got hit by a car and died and her partner is up north.
(in the mean time his brother, father of the 8 month old, has been harping on at us about our sleep situation with Fallon - never mind that it works quite well for us, SOCIETY SAYS SHE SHOULD BE ON HER OWN)
Yesterday they came over for a visit and for dinner. All was well. Except that Sporty Spice the sister in law does cry-it-out. Hardcore. And Slickhair the brother in law is a BIG fan of it, but they don't do it as a rule. So it comes to sleepy time and Bunbun is EXHAUSTED. She went for a swim, got woken up at every turn when she napped and is just out of it. And was woken up at five am because the toddler woke up and Sporty Spice did a bit of CIO in the morning too. So she was gone. The kind of out of it that means five minutes of boob and she's down for the count.
Except when there's a screaming, crying toddler in the bedroom right next door and his door is open while everyone down stairs talks louder and puts the music on louder to compensate. Add in the request to not slam the gate is apparently coddling our child and ruining her sleep. The child who has only ever lived and napped on main road, who once fell asleep as a plane taxied and took off, needs to learn to sleep through MOAR NOISE.
So it took a while. Which is obviously evidence of how WRONG AND STUPID we are not to do cry it out.
To top it all? Sporty Spice tells the mother of the 8 month old to 'just let him cry it out in toddler's room, he'll be fine'. NO. STOP IT. Stop TRYING to fucking wake my kid up and prove we're doing it wrong. I understand you don't like sleeping with your kid, I really do. But I LIKE how things are with Bunbun, I really do. I like her sleep snuffling into me, I even like her waking up all bleary eyed and face planting into me. And I LOVE her waking up and smiling at me and kissing me and cuddling me.
I'd rather not wake up in pee, but CIO isn't gonna help that either.
FUCKING IN LAWS, HOW DO THEY WORK?
His mother lived in Egypt with her new (30 years younger) husband for a few years, has not met 2 of the 3 grandchildren and sunk her life savings into it all. She's on her way back, probably for good.
One of his sister's is over there, she left her beloved dog with the other sister.
Who is currently staying with us, along with her toddler with Cerebral Palsy, because said dog got hit by a car and died and her partner is up north.
(in the mean time his brother, father of the 8 month old, has been harping on at us about our sleep situation with Fallon - never mind that it works quite well for us, SOCIETY SAYS SHE SHOULD BE ON HER OWN)
Yesterday they came over for a visit and for dinner. All was well. Except that Sporty Spice the sister in law does cry-it-out. Hardcore. And Slickhair the brother in law is a BIG fan of it, but they don't do it as a rule. So it comes to sleepy time and Bunbun is EXHAUSTED. She went for a swim, got woken up at every turn when she napped and is just out of it. And was woken up at five am because the toddler woke up and Sporty Spice did a bit of CIO in the morning too. So she was gone. The kind of out of it that means five minutes of boob and she's down for the count.
Except when there's a screaming, crying toddler in the bedroom right next door and his door is open while everyone down stairs talks louder and puts the music on louder to compensate. Add in the request to not slam the gate is apparently coddling our child and ruining her sleep. The child who has only ever lived and napped on main road, who once fell asleep as a plane taxied and took off, needs to learn to sleep through MOAR NOISE.
So it took a while. Which is obviously evidence of how WRONG AND STUPID we are not to do cry it out.
To top it all? Sporty Spice tells the mother of the 8 month old to 'just let him cry it out in toddler's room, he'll be fine'. NO. STOP IT. Stop TRYING to fucking wake my kid up and prove we're doing it wrong. I understand you don't like sleeping with your kid, I really do. But I LIKE how things are with Bunbun, I really do. I like her sleep snuffling into me, I even like her waking up all bleary eyed and face planting into me. And I LOVE her waking up and smiling at me and kissing me and cuddling me.
I'd rather not wake up in pee, but CIO isn't gonna help that either.
FUCKING IN LAWS, HOW DO THEY WORK?