Her crawling was never really a milestone I looked forward to. While Hubby was looking forward to holding her hand and walking together all I could think of was the eventual baby proofing of everything that came with this stage and all the cleaning that now had to be done on the regular. And the chasing after.. And all the heart palpitations... 🤦🏻♀️
That said, she's totes adorable shuffling along like that.
As much as I want to protect her and cushion her fall (cos lord knows she screams bloody murder when she hits her face on something) I'm fast getting to the point where I need to let her be and experience things mainly so that she could learn how to not fall in her face every single time.
I'm also realising that I need to chill and stop trying to stick to a schedule because as she develops her patterns change and I need to adapt.
So today/tonight instead of sticking to the '3 hours awake, then nap' routine I kept her up from 3:45pm til 8:45pm. Usually I would have tried to squeeze a nap in but we had dinner early, had a play then Hubby bounced her to sleep. Tonight's been the first time in a long time he's been able to put her to sleep without her crying for me, so I'm one happy and relaxed Mumma tonight.
As for sleep training..... I really can't bear to hear her crying like that. I don't think either one of is is ready for sleep training. Not one that involves leaving her to cry it out anyway.
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