{"id":122,"date":"2011-03-19T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2011-06-29T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:08:10","slug":"the-child-and-the-method-by-which-he-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"the child, and the method by which he sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, the obligatory “sorry we haven’t posted in like a month” statement. As it turns out this parenting thing keeps us busy from time to time. So, um, sorry.<\/p>\n

So we’re rounding the corner on month two for Eli now, and his sleeping patterns have developed. Developed into wildly unpredictable. I figured you’d be interested to know the way by which we convince the boy that he ought to sleep at night.<\/p>\n

\"Eli'sThis here is Eli’s crib. It’s a nice crib. If I were a foot and half tall I think I would like this crib. You’d probably be really proud of us if we told you that he sleeps in his crib at night, and he does sleep in his crib at night. But don’t be proud of us. Because it’s not that simple.<\/p>\n

Around 9:00 or so Eli begins his hour long ritual of trying to convince himself that he’s not really tired. In truth he’s quite tired – beyond tired. So tired that he’s forgotten how nice it would be to just go to sleep. So to coax him along he gets a final feeding of the night.<\/p>\n

Next we turn off all the lights, turn on the space heater to warm it up to a balmy southern Florida beach temperature, and turn on the humidifier. Then we turn on the rain.<\/p>\n

\"White<\/a>We found a spectacular little app for our iPod call White Noise. It’s got a bunch of different noise effects, like crashing waves and ticking clocks and such. Eli seems to like the one called “Downpour” which sounds just like what it’s called.<\/div>\n

\"TurtleSo now it’s raining. Next we turn on the turtle. This little guy to the right is a nightlight that casts star constellations in a soothing blue hue all across the ceiling. Awesome, right? So while Steph is feeding him in the dark, the turtle sits on her foot rocker and shines tiny little blue stars on the walls and ceiling that move with the gentle motion of the rocker. This kid is so spoiled.<\/p>\n

Next there’s the Moses basket. Borrowed from our friends, the Moses basket is a small white “bassinet” type bed, about two and a half feet long that we set inside<\/i> the crib. It looks about like something that Moses was sent down the river in, hence the name I guess. He likes sleeping in this because it’s small, enclosed and comfy. But we had to modify it a bit. Eli likes having his head higher than his feet, so we put a towel under one end of the mattress giving it about a two inch lift from foot to head. Plus we’ve lined the mattress with a fuzzy fleece blanket that keeps his head nice and warm.<\/p>\n

\"Lamby\"Early on one of the only ways we could get Eli to sleep was\u00a0 by putting him in his “lamby”. The “lamby” is on the left here – it’s a little fuzzy white seat, complete with lamb ears, that vibrates as he sits in it. The vibrating gets him to sleep fast. So to aid in the night sleeping we prop up the “lamby” inside the crib, set it against one end and press the vibrate button, which sufficiently shakes the entire bed.<\/p>\n

So, for those keeping track at home: the lights go off, we begin the feeding, we make it rain, we shine stars on the ceiling, we rock the child to sleep, we place the child in the Moses basket and prop up his head at a 7 degree angle, we place the Moses basket in the crib, and then we shake the entire foundation with a fuzzy white lamb.<\/p>\n

If this entire 45 minute process is successful, we creep out of the room and try to get two hours of sleep until it’s time to eat again. And that is the method by which the child sleeps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, the obligatory “sorry we haven’t posted in like a month” statement. As it turns out this parenting thing keeps us busy from time to time. So, um, sorry. So we’re rounding the corner on month two for Eli now, and his sleeping patterns have developed. Developed into wildly unpredictable. I figured you’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareburnsheads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}