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That's brilliant!

I usually get very bad sleep bc DH snores terribly. Some mornings when DD is up before me I just.cannot.deal with starting the day. So I give her the iPad while she snuggles in bed with me, for up to an hour sometimes. Not ideal but it works for us.

Bahahaha....that image is so awesome!

For me the big thing was co-bedding. Swore I'd never do it, was told by our pedi and everyone else under the sun to do it, but it was the only way he would sleep the first few months.

LO gets tv time. It's not intentional, but when I'm feeding her or when she's in my lap, there are times that the tv is on and I'm watching. I do try to turn her head away from it sometimes, but I also know that she's seen way more CSI:Miami than she should.

Wow! That actually seems brilliant and less messy

@mrsmate: we've done this too. Educational games and Disney junior is usually what he goes for. I mean, he wakes up at 5am! I need to sleep until 6 or else I'm grumpy!

@HabesBabe: Don't worry... both my girls had 3 naps til 10 months. My second had 3 naps til close to 12 months actually. Forget what the sleep books say! Whatever works for your family I personally loved the 3rd nap late in the afternoon!

ETA: oh and to answer the original post.. hmm when the girls get a little stir crazy and I'm doing a few chores, they watch some TV. But I don't think it's bad! I also still nurse my 19 month old at night... Some consider that bad, but I don't... What else? I'm sure there's more, but dinner in the tub... that's just awesome! I hate the mess at the table!

@caffeinated: I do the same!! On days when my LO stays in his high chair for more than 10 minutes I am a happy mama. Otherwise, we've had a lot of mealtimes happen on the floor these days.

I let ds eat in front of the tv when I've made something that's not exactly his favorite food. Or at the computer. He's so focused on the screen that he's not really paying attention to what he's eating.

DS is 14 weeks and he still naps in the swing or bouncer sometimes. Wherever he falls asleep is where he sleeps.

Bottle or nursing to sleep at night. Baby Einstein or Mr. Rogers while I pump/make dinner/"rest my eyes"... there are many. The AAP recommends a lot of things, but none of them are home with my baby, so I'm not going to follow every recommendation blindly.

@prettylizy: Lol, thanks! I guess it just bugs me that she looks like she's watching the tv. Her daycare lady said that she watched most of the Lorax on Monday, just chilling in the pack'n'play.

Probably sleeping in the carseat. I don't care what weisbluth says, we gotta get out sometime. I will often pick a shopping destination that is farther from the house so that he has more time to nap.

We don't do baths every day....and sometimes three days go by.....eh, whoops! We also don't do books every night. And we are introducing solids right now and don't do that every evening either! I work M and W at 6:30 so it has kept us from a proper nighttime routine. The only routine he really has is nurse in the glider, song, get zipped in his sleep sack, rock a little, put down. I honestly don't know how other families do the hour-plus long nighttime routine. Time is so strained around that time of day! Solids then bath then book then nurse then sleep??? My kid can barely stay up 2 hours so by the time we get done bathing he is ready to sleep. I am nervous about summer when DH spends so much time doing yard stuff at night....we really need to get this whole thing under control!

I HATE that we do this (because it's now turning into a habit) but LO will, in the middle of a meal, tell me that she wants "up" and she takes her bowl and goes to her room. She'll eat and play at the same time. I want to teach her to eat at the table and in her chair but sometimes it's just easier to let her play and eat. SIGH.