Beloved Bouncy Chair

This is our beloved bouncy chair. The Peaceful Hero, after three weeks of his life decided that this was the best (read only) place to sleep. If it wasn't vibrating he wouldn't sleep. We were fine with it, and even took the bouncy chair with us on our almost three week jaunt to the West.

While we were in the West, The Bug Hero and I were wondering if it was time to start weaning him of the bouncy chair. The Peaceful Hero was pushing ten weeks while we were there and that meant that it was time to start thinking about sleep training. It's just not safe to sleep train a child if he's sleeping in a bouncy chair. Also, in our favorite sleep bible, I mean book, it said that vibrators gave junk sleep.

The Peaceful Hero also proved that it wasn't necessary, because on all of our plane rides he slept right through them without being vibrated. So once we were home and back to a somewhat normal schedule we tried to wean him of it. It was rough for two days. He woke up every two hours at night and wanted to be held and nursed. That made Mom really tired.

On the third day, he got his two month shots. I decided that because he got his shots, he could sleep in his beloved chair. He slept the rest of the day and the night, waking up every 6 hours eat and get some Tylenol. That was the last time he slept in the chair. After January 6th, he decided that it doesn't give him good sleep, and gets upset if you try to put him to sleep in the chair.

We were amazed at how fast the Peaceful Hero went from needing and loving his chair as a sleep aide, to wanting to use it as a chair so he can see his family. Our sleep bible is right that now the chair provides junk sleep. I think that the Peaceful Hero was making a transition between womb sleep and world sleep. In the womb it must have been a lot like the bouncy chair...I don't hold still and when I'm asleep the blood must have vibrated him a lot. Now he's used to the world, and holding still and has decided that he'll sleep like the rest of us, on a non-vibrating bed. I love the chair and I love that he weaned himself! We'll start sleep training sometime before he's four months old. (That's when we did the Friendly Hero.)