Nerdy Mama

Nerdy Mama
Originally uploaded by siraulo

I'm not saying I'm a great mom, or even a good one when I label myself nerdy Mama. Yes, I do write down his nap and feeding info. Its not like I enforce a schedule on him, he actually settle into his schedule quite naturally. I realized this when I started taking data (one of the perils of being an ABA teacher. Before that, B and I were mostly clueless about why he was crying. We would try different things like, wake him up, keep him up much longer than he should have just coz we were afraid he was sleeping too much. After reading enough books and a bit of our own trial and error, we realized we needed to trust our baby to know. To know how much he needed to eat, how much he needed to sleep. And with the help of the data (to reassure me, really) and paying attention to his signals to us he's pretty much settled into a good daily routine.

To be continued...