Well this weekend my mind was spinning like a dreidel during Hanukkah. John has been having napping/feeding problems and it seems like I can't figure out what to do. Parenthood is the craziest thing. It is so important but so many aspects of it are totally ambiguous. It's unlike any situation I have ever found myself in.
I found this great blog called Chronicles of a Babywise Mom (see the "websites I like" column) and there is a lot of good information there. But it is a bad thing when your husband is out of town (see "the Willis Family" blog) and you spend hours pouring over all the different opinions that are posted on the site. I went to bed that night and didn't sleep well because I was busy strategizing new ways to get John to sleep and eat. You see, the pacifier has become an issue because I have to put it back in so many times during the naps or during the night that I am not sure if we should go cold turkey on it or what. So the spinning continues.
Fortunately, Dave is home now and has been a big encouragement. He reiterates to me that these issues we are facing, although frustrating and have their own place in this season of his life, are not the main issues of life. At each stage we go through with John, there will be these pressing, yet temporal issues. I need to not get so anxious and instead trust the Lord that He who began a good work in him will carry it on into completion (Philippians 1:6), regardless of if we continue to use the pacifier or not!
Cheers.
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