![]() Kids, put down your phones for six minutes and pull up a chair.įinding a mate is an ordeal. When we hit our 30 th anniversary a few years back my better half endured some slings and arrows after I spilled some tea on him (collateral damage being married to a blogger) so I thought as we celebrate again this year, I’d take a minute to look under the hood of what makes us run so smoothly most of the time. ![]() I’ve been sharing a bathroom with the same man for more than three decades so I know a few things about disinfectants and commitment. In the event any of my aforementioned actions are making them nervous about the state of their parents’ union, I feel I need to tell them to relax and ignore the eyerolls.Ĭalm down kids, I want to tell them, we be good. And okay, it may be possible I sometimes scream-talk too much in front of them when showing their dad a better way of doing, you know, everything. Maybe I’m imagining their arched eyebrows every time I grunt with frustration when their same father arrives home having forgotten (shakes fist) the one thing I’d asked him to pick up at the store. Perhaps I’m overthinking their pensive stares when I shake my head (All. While kids rarely notice, I don’t know, anything? that doesn’t directly affect them, I can tell the unpleasant new normal of these lovely families – families they’ve been close with for years – has left them a bit shaken. When they paired their Cradlewise with a gentle sleep coaching approach, their little one was soon sleeping up to six-hour stretches every night and drifting off easily for naps during the day.This past year my kids have seen a few surprising divorces happen within their friend circles. Previously, Jace had been waking up almost every hour, now they were seeing long stretches of rest for everyone. Once the couple received their Cradlewise, they noticed an immediate difference in their son’s sleep quality-and their own. At least for Jace (who is now six months old), he responds much better to that.” Going viral The Cradlewise approach of bouncing up and down to rock the baby to sleep is so much more natural. “We always had the levels set at a certain limit because I just felt like it went a little too far for me. “I think it just a little harsh when it came to putting my baby to sleep,” Tina says of the first option they tried. Immediately, though, they knew they hadn’t found the right solution. However, shipping delays due to COVID supply chain issues prevented them from receiving theirs right away, so they rented another smart bassinet in the meantime. Jace at five-and-a-half months old, loving his Cradlewise Smart Crib!Īs a medical professional engaged to a startup tech enthusiast, both Tina and Joe were eager to get a Cradlewise Smart Crib as quickly as possible. This is a human that we brought into the world, and that was just a beautiful moment.” “I always tell Joe, like, I didn’t even cry. “I think I was very much in shock when I had my son Jace,” Tina says. While Tina’s day job might sound like an incredible feat to many of us, for her, the true shock came after her healthy delivery a week past her due date. Have we mentioned she’s our hero? ❤️ Adjusting to new mom life Once her traveling assignment was over, Tina worked in various underserved hospitals desperate for nurses to respond to increased needs over COVID infections, regularly working 12- to 13-hours shifts five days a week through her first trimester. “I think as a nurse, that’s my number one instinct-to do the best I can and help the patient any way I can,” Tina says. January 22, 2021: Photo of Tina’s first day on the job at her California travel nursing assignment (she was four weeks pregnant at the time and didn’t know the happy news yet!)ĭespite the added stress of the situation, Tina considers herself fortunate to have had a fairly easy pregnancy that allowed her to continue to work through most of it.
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