Sweet little lady turned 9 months old yesterday! She stands on her own for up to 5 seconds, "cruises" on the furniture, dances to music, hums to herself all the time and when she wants mama to sing to her. She is also teething like crazy! Nights can be sooooo long, but I would not trade them for the world.
This past month I got to thinking about mothers and what makes a good mom. Everyone has their own opinion on what a good mom does; "a good mom stays home," "a good mom goes to work," a good mom puts her child to sleep in the crib," "a good mom co-sleeps," and the list goes on. For me, a good mom loves her children unconditionally, sacrifices her own desires to take of her children's needs, and does everything in her power to keep them safe and raise them to be happy, healthy, individuals. A good mom provides for her children. Feeds them, clothes them, reads to them, disciplines them.
A "good" mom, is a mom that is there for her children 100%, 24/7, even if she is at work. She hugs them, helps them, kisses their owies, soothes their tears and calms their fears. Most important of all a good mom is or does, is the love she has for her children. Without that, no amount of money or gifts makes any difference at all. A good mom LOVES!
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I started this blog post the day after Emma turned 9 months old, we have had a few developments since then...
Namely, last night we started sleep training, again, and it went better than I could ever have hoped! Here id the break-down:
8:50p - Emma placed in her crib, she whimpers for two minutes total!
9:00p - I go in and check on her, find her asleep curled up on her belly super close to the bars, but breathing and, again, asleep! (Wow! She put herself to sleep for the first time in just over 9 months!)
9:50p - Dad goes in to check on her, finds her in same position, starts to freak out. I tell him she is fine, she can breath, it will be okay. He grudgingly agrees to let her be.
11:00p - I go in and check on her again, still sleeping in same position. (this checking goes on every 1.5-2 hours, just to be sure as it seems too good to be true)
3:45a - Emma whimpers, I go in and check on her, she is hungry and needs a diaper change. She is changed, fed, and brought to moms and dads bed for a short snuggle, then it is off to her crib again.
3:55a - Emma placed back in crib. She whimpers once then rolls over and goes back to sleep.
6:51a - Emma still sleeps soundly in her crib. (Again, wow! She can self soothe!)
Not sure if this first night going so easily is a fluke or not, but I am super surprised and happy it went so well! All the research I did had me worried that she would cry up to an hour before settling in to sleep and would probably wake for all her "normal" feeding times, she did not do any of that. We will see how it all goes tonight. Maybe I have not "ruined" my girl, nor "created a monster" and maybe, just maybe, I am not a horrible mom after all!
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