Just keeps coming. The temps were real low the second half of this week, and there was a good hard snow on Monday night. I ended up running on Tuesday for 10 miles at a pretty hard effort, running over a minute slower a mile than I would have on flat, non-snow-covered ground. Thursday's mini workout was 6x200m with 200m float inbetween. That was run at a temp of about 3 deg F. Yuck. Wed and Fri were recovery, and today was the Saturday bear workout.
I wanted to head to the indoor track again, but varsity softball girls were practicing...so back to the damn TM for a hard workout. 6 miles of 400 on (1:20) 400 float (1:40 avg). This was tougher than last week's workout, but not gut-busting until I took the float parts faster (1:37) in the last couple miles of intervals. Having a friend running next to me helped, but conversation was somewhat limited as I got to the later stages of the run.
I've managed to complete destroy my Leopard installation on my new mac (I'm used to linux as a primary OS, and there it's pretty damn hard to do something that will not allow your computer to boot). By attempting to downgrade Quicktime to an older version that could handle flash, the system was completely hosed, so far as I can tell. This is the best way to learn how to do things with a computer though...kill it and fix it...kill it again, fix it again. Very time consuming though.
How do you folks put your kids to sleep? Our boy is 5 months now, and we're trying to wean him from needing to fall asleep while feeding. There doesn't seem to be any other way that he'll go to sleep except crying himself out of consciousness, and this is exceedingly painful for all involved. Any ideas?
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We were lucky with Daisy: she has always been a good sleeper; she slept through the night from 2 months on, although A had to go to forumla earlier than she would've liked.
That said, whenever we needed to "recalibrate" Daisy's sleep schedule, we were of the "let her cry it out" camp. Yeah, it sucks ass for a two or three days, but it also forces the baby to find other self-soothing techniques.
I'm not usually a baby book guy, but "Happy Child, Healthy Sleep" is good and deals with this.
At the end of the day, you've got to deal with this stuff how you're comfortable with. Some people don't mind the crying out thing; other people don't care for it (attachment parenting, etc).
Good luck!!!
The snow just sucks huh? I am, shall we say, "over it all." Nice workouts though.
I was also pretty lucky with the sleeping thing, but am also in the let them cry it out camp.
I think it depends on how they are feeding when they fall asleep too. If they are used to the "comfort of mommy," it is a harder situation. We started giving our boys a bottle right before bed every night (and in the middle of the night if they'd wake up) from a relatively early age. That way they were waking for food, not comfort. We found that was the best way to get them to sleep without requiring the "comfort" too.
Every baby is different, but my boys also liked something in their crib with lights/sounds. It had a similar soothing effect to watching a campfire. So they'd cry a bit sometimes, but then get mesmerized by it and fall alseep. Of course there were plenty of times they'd just freak out for an hour too. Very nerve-racking, I remeber the problem very well. Good luck.
I think the gist of what everyone else is saying is that different stuff works for different kids.
A big thing for us was bed time routine. The same thing each night, at the same times. Bath, PJs, stories with a dim light on, a noise maker (we have a cool Fisher Price aquarium in the crib), then lights out and some songs, then bed.
One thing we did differently with #2 was getting him into the crib while he was still awake and before his head started to bob & weave. That got him used to putting himself to sleep.
We sort of let both 'cry it out' but not to an extreme. It was more like we would let them 'fuss' it out. If they really got going, we had a routine where we would go in and try patting them, leaving them in the crib, and only pick them up if it really just didn't work.
So what worked for us was 1) routine and 2) keep trying the same thing for at least 2 weeks. That's about how long it took for changes to the sleep cycle to set it.
Hope some of that helps.
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