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andrea... I've been really trying to find new softer, warming to the heart music. I've been enjoying reading your blog a lot these days. I've discovered some great music.

as usual thanks for sharing.

And then, wait until he's 4. Or 9. Or 10.

I randomly (if anything is random) stumbled upon Rachel Garlin's music last week and have been meaning to take a closer listen. (Oh, my old friend Serendipity: you are everywhere I look these days!) Also? I'm in love with this photo.

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There is something so very calming and soothing about this photograph. And love the advice from the four year old granddaughter.

this photo - and your words - rock my world. please offer it in your print gallery shop so that i can purchase. :)

this photo - and your words - rock my world. please offer it in your print gallery shop so that i can purchase. :)

That photo is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. It makes me feel like I'm actually at the beach, with my chin on the sand.

i love her "Bound to be Mountains" song! love it.

Oooh, just listened and downloaded immediately from iTunes. :)

Reminds me of something I heard in San Francisco ages ago:

http://www.squaregirl.com/squaregirl/2004/10/18/who-knew-leonard-cohen-wrote-country-songs.html

Their song "Giving Up On Trying To Love You" is my favorite, and is also available on iTunes.

That is incredible advice. :)

Maybe Rachel Garlin could sing him to sleep? It's worth trying. The universe works in weird ways like that.

That's funny about the sleeping. In my experience with my daughter, she didn't sleep AND she was an early bird. Going to bed at 5:30 p.m. and getting up at 3:00 a.m. to start the day and watch cartoons. Eventually, she did sleep through the night, but she was older - maybe 4 years old or so and only recently (she's 10) is she keeping "normal" hours. Can't fight what's naturally in them, you know.

That's funny about the sleeping. In my experience with my daughter, she didn't sleep AND she was an early bird. Going to bed at 5:30 p.m. and getting up at 3:00 a.m. to start the day and watch cartoons. Eventually, she did sleep through the night, but she was older - maybe 4 years old or so and only recently (she's 10) is she keeping "normal" hours. Can't fight what's naturally in them, you know.

I like this post :-) And what good advice! Thanks for the link to Rachel Garlin. She has a lovely voice.

My son is 7 but didn't begin sleeping through the night until he was five. He was certainly never the baby everyone told me would be sleeping for long periods of time by three months. He had trouble going to sleep on his own as an infant and toddler no matter what I tried and woke up several times a night.

At five, he had finally stopped waking up and coming into our bed or calling for me to come sleep with him. It was progress. But, he got up at about twice a night to go to the bathroom and he felt he needed to yell "Mama! I have to go to the bathroom!" before he got out of bed.

So, I think it was probably his 6th year that I finally, finally, was able to sleep through the night. It was heaven.

I am currently back in waking up all night because he had his tonsils and adenoids out last week & recovery didn't go well (had to be hospitalized two days after). We're home now but I was up trying to give meds to a sleepy and in pain little person twice and am now a sleepy mama.

It sucks. It SUCKS!!! when we don't get enough sleep. It is frustrating for everyone involved. I know. And I have no advice, really, better than that little girl's. In my case, she would be right. I just had to wait it out. The result of all of this is that I now nap even though my son doesn't. I think I'm still tired from those years of sleep deprivation!

Much love and wishes for sweet, sweet sleep.

Jennifer

What a great story... and a great ripple effect! That music is amazing and I need to get me some. :-)

So many wonderful things in such a short post! What a beautiful story - thank you for sharing, it's certainly put a smile on my face this morning.

It's like when the guy at the bus stop told you to reward yourselves for figuring out your mosquito problem, I think. Most excellent.

What a serendipitous meeting. I love that it happened in a taqueria. Your mamaheart needed that, I think...

Hi Andrea,
Our son still doesn't sleep through the night at 4 1/2 and for the longest time I thought it was something we did wrong until our daughter was birn and was a great sleeper and at 2 still is wonderfully sleeping through the night! All I know is that when I accept it and work my world around him waking up and stop resisting it or hating it or worrying about tomorrow's obligations, things go much better. Also, I learned to use some sleep aids such as calms forte for kids or homeopathic chamomille . . . maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, I don't know. But I feel your pain, truly, and I have severe ppd so it is very difficult to deal with the sleep issues. He will sleep eventually, but that little girl's advice was pretty much true!
Love your blog,
Heidi

how delightfully simple was that advice?

Rachel Garlin's music is just what i needed today. wow...

what a magical encounter.

xoxo

I love your music suggestions! She's great!

Love the advice. Love it.

Ah, what a beautiful song! I passed it on to my sweetie. In our wedding vows, I pledged that my love will be intact even when we stumble...that it won't go away just because we encounter a "mountain."

Thank you for the musical connection!

And he WILL sleep...he will!

xo,
Laura ;-)

i love how the world is like that, gifting you new friends in a taqueria.

ohh yes a friend of ours had a 3 year old who still woke up through the night. the friends she lived with at the time had to hang out with her for a couple nights, hugging her and telling her "you're not a bad mom, you're not a bad mom" as she let him cry for a few minutes and then would go back to sleep. by night three, he was sleeping through the night, and Such a happier child now that he was getting good sleep...not to mention his Mother was much happier as well!

i am not saying this is the right response for every child who won't sleep through the night (or won't wake up without crying), but they found this to be the only way-after so many other tries-to retain sanity of both mother and child for them.

may you find the solution for your own family soon!

thank you for passing along the music recommendation, andrea! i've been having fun the last few minutes, going through rachel garlin's website and listening to all her music.

what a beautiful encounter you had at the taqueria! =)

That is some great advice .