We had a visit from Ms. Crystal tonight. She goes to church with us and delivered dinner (a mexican salad) and a Southwestern pasta salad with shrimp for lunch tomorrow. She took time to hold Mihaela and stayed for about an hour visiting. Crystal and Freddy (her husband) have been kind of mentoring us through the entire process. They went through fertility treatments for 10 years before deciding to adopt. They had a private adoption, though, about three years ago. Anyway, we were talking about Mihaela's sleeping habits and she suggested this very popular technique that is good to get babies in the habit of going to bed and going to sleep.
Basically, give the child a bottle. THen bath them. Finally put them to bed. We are trying this techniques this evening. We fed Mihaela at 7:00 PM and kept her awake the rest of the evening, not an easy feat. We then fed her at ten and Erin has bathed her. Mihaela is already very tired and should go right sleep in her crib. I don't know how this will affect her next two feedings, so we will see if this is working for us. We may need to adjust the times.
Personally, I like the idea of forming habits now that we can stick with her later. Check back tomorrow for how it all worked out.
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