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To soften you up before the rant: I painted my toenails red today, and then I painted Casper's red too, because she wanted me to. They are So. Cute.

The Rant: We seem to have the options of half-hour nursing sessions 1-2 times a night, or 30-60 minute crying sessions, with multiple brief visits every 10-15 minutes to say "it's time to sleep," and the phrase, "I. Want. Mom. Mee." whined, cried, shrieked, etc. approximately 147,000 times. I am so ANGRY about this right now. I spend an hour awake listening to her cry, then an hour awake surfing to cool down my anger so I can actually sleep, then I get up in the morning and resent her all day Like a cat who goes straight to the one person in the room who hates or is allergic to cats, Casper chooses these days to be particularly clingy wth me.

I'm thinking we need to try something completely new, but I'm not sure what it is. Have her sleep on a pillow on the floor in our bedroom? Give her to the wolverines?

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[loligo.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers & Pre-Schoolers. This book was really helpful for us, and there's a whole chapter just on nighttime nursing. The first suggestion from that chapter: let your kid nurse for just a little while, enough to calm down but not enough to fall completely asleep, to start breaking the nursing/sleep association.

My kid slept for ten hours last night! Except for falling out of bed at three, but then she fell right back asleep. Maybe the curse is finally broken....