Comments on: Dear God http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/ uncovering life's layers, exploring truth's terrain... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:12:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Paul M. Martin http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1137 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:15:39 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1137 Hmmm... is blogging like petitionary prayer? Our blog posts have intersected... Yeah, I guess the baby crying thing at night seems to last forever while it's happening, I have a friend going through the same thing. Hmmm… is blogging like petitionary prayer? Our blog posts have intersected…

Yeah, I guess the baby crying thing at night seems to last forever while it’s happening, I have a friend going through the same thing.

]]> by: Kristin http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1136 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:01:10 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1136 Oh yeah...and I'm so glad you're liking Deep River! Quite a remarkable book. Oh yeah…and I’m so glad you’re liking Deep River! Quite a remarkable book.

]]> by: Kristin http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1135 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:00:07 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1135 Okay, so I developed mastitis through the night. Woke up shaking incontrollably and am fighting a fever of over 102. Just started antibiotics. This too will pass...right??? Thank you Bobbie, Jenell and Fran. Bobbie, by all means feel free to share some tips. My email address is in the sidebar. Back to bed... Okay, so I developed mastitis through the night. Woke up shaking incontrollably and am fighting a fever of over 102. Just started antibiotics. This too will pass…right???

Thank you Bobbie, Jenell and Fran. Bobbie, by all means feel free to share some tips. My email address is in the sidebar.

Back to bed…

]]> by: Fran http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1134 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:40:20 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1134 Sleeping through the night varies--sometimes it takes months, and sometimes it is only weeks. This is a really exhausting time of life, but our selective memory will dull the fatigue and later you'll remember the good stuff. Same with childbirth itself. If we remembered everything, there wouldn't be any more babies. Sleeping through the night varies–sometimes it takes months, and sometimes it is only weeks. This is a really exhausting time of life, but our selective memory will dull the fatigue and later you’ll remember the good stuff. Same with childbirth itself. If we remembered everything, there wouldn’t be any more babies.

]]> by: Jenell http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1133 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:20:53 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1133 My twins started sleeping "through the night" (meaning 4.5 - 6 hours) at 13 weeks. They were 6 weeks premature, so hopefully 13 is a bit late for a term baby. Now, at 15 weeks, they sleep around 10 pm-3:30, then 4-7 am. I sleep then, too, then again from 7:30-9 am, and that gets me through the day. The nightly crying, and the 3-hour feedings, were going to do me in by week 10. I was fatigued beyond what I had ever known before. It finally got better - less crying, more sleeping - on all our parts. People gave me lots of advice for how to get them to sleep (and how to stop crying), but I think it was just time. I believe their brains developed, and tummies too, to a point where they could sleep longer. I don't think our tricks helped at all, except to give us somethign to do while we waited. Such hard, hard work and such joy. I love your first paragraph. I, too, long for all I used to have (unencumbered time and energy, work, a social life), but also love this new kind of life more than I can describe. My twins started sleeping “through the night” (meaning 4.5 - 6 hours) at 13 weeks. They were 6 weeks premature, so hopefully 13 is a bit late for a term baby. Now, at 15 weeks, they sleep around 10 pm-3:30, then 4-7 am. I sleep then, too, then again from 7:30-9 am, and that gets me through the day. The nightly crying, and the 3-hour feedings, were going to do me in by week 10. I was fatigued beyond what I had ever known before. It finally got better - less crying, more sleeping - on all our parts.

People gave me lots of advice for how to get them to sleep (and how to stop crying), but I think it was just time. I believe their brains developed, and tummies too, to a point where they could sleep longer. I don’t think our tricks helped at all, except to give us somethign to do while we waited.

Such hard, hard work and such joy. I love your first paragraph. I, too, long for all I used to have (unencumbered time and energy, work, a social life), but also love this new kind of life more than I can describe.

]]> by: bobbie http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1132 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:43:31 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/09/28/dear-god/#comment-1132 please know i didn't wish that on you at all! so wish i could have heard you all the other night - i'm sure you helped a lot of people understand much more about the blogging world. it is a prayer for me many times too. i'm 1/2 way through deep river and it is becoming a 'friend'. you can email me if you want my 2 cents about sleeping babies - i hate to leave 'advice' that is unsolicited, it can sound so bossy and know it all. praying for a good stretch of sleep for you tonight! please know i didn’t wish that on you at all! so wish i could have heard you all the other night - i’m sure you helped a lot of people understand much more about the blogging world. it is a prayer for me many times too.

i’m 1/2 way through deep river and it is becoming a ‘friend’.

you can email me if you want my 2 cents about sleeping babies - i hate to leave ‘advice’ that is unsolicited, it can sound so bossy and know it all. praying for a good stretch of sleep for you tonight!

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