An argument for teenage pregnancy
Feb 25th, 2009 by Cory
We’ve tried our best to follow the advice in On Becoming Babywise. We try to follow a feeding-playtime-naptime cycle. We also let Carter cry (for a few minutes) if we know all of his other needs are met and he just needs to cry himself to sleep. All that said, it still takes considerable effort to get him down at night.
Tonight, everything was going right. Carter had a dry diaper, he’d just finished a bottle, and I had rocked him into a nice deep sleep. I slowly stood up from the rocker, and danced a little with him to make sure he was still asleep. Then, I slowly bent over to lay him in the crib.
“CRACK!”
That would be my shoulder popping.
With that, Carter was wide awake and we had to start the process all over again.
That’s what I get for waiting until I was in my 30s to have kids. There’s no way teenage parents have to deal with such things. They have no idea how lucky they have it.
