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DD changes every week as she grows. How to put her to sleep becomes one of the biggest issues for me every week. Each time after I develop a new trick, very soon she successfully identifies i. A seesaw battle of tricking and anti-tricking is on between us…
In the first two weeks after her birth, every time after I fed her, I let her nurse one more time on one breast. She sucked the nipple for no more than one minute and then quickly fell into sleep.
Beginning week 3, I found this trick didn’t work any more. Her eyes were still widely open after the bonus feeding. Sometimes she still fell into sleep while nursing, but immediately woke up when I moved her to bed. Therefore, a new trick—gentle rocking was quickly used to replace the old one.
Unfortunately, this new trick quickly lost its effect. DD began to enjoy being held and the rocking motion. She kept looking around curiously with her beautiful big eyes, completely ignoring me yawning and fighting to keep my eyes open.
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Then I found out pacifier could calm her down and put her to sleep. As soon as she began to suck the pacifier, her eyes began to show watery and she began to drift away. What a wonderful thing!
Soon DD identified this trick. She spit the pacifier out as soon as I put into her mouth. Sometimes she pushed it back with her tongue with a sunny smile!
Another headache was how to prevent her from waking after we laid her down in her crib. First, we thought the mattress was too firm. M added an extra layer of soft blanket above the mattress. It didn’t work.
Then, M thought maybe because DD enjoyed our body warmth when we held her, she could tell the difference when she was transferred to the bed. To fool her that she was still be held, M used the heating pad to warm her mattress before putting her down. It failed.
Lastly, M consulted his coworkers that putting a hand on her tummy may mislead her thinking we were still with her. When this trick first worked, M danced happily like a kid. Of course nothing could deceive our smart little one. She quickly learned our hoax and successfully blew it.
So new tricks are badly needed. The seesaw battle between my tricking and her anti-tricking is still going on….
