My family has been using Netflix for almost a year now. Month after month we used it less and less simply because they just don't have any new movies. And when they do have new movies, the movies come out on HBO at around the same time! Now, Netflix wants to charge us 60% more every month. So from about $9 to about $15. Seriously, Netflix? Come on... It's the same service, yet they are charging more! This makes no sense at all.
I keep Netflix around because my daughter loves to watch Blues Clues and other childrens shows. But $15 a month is too much.
After finding this out, I went to the Netflix website to e-mail a complaint about the price hike. Alas, I did not find an e-mail for feedback... I guess I will just have to e-mail every single one of the contact addresses they have posted on their website and see if they e-mail me back.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Baby Sleep Trouble
For the first time in a long time, I have a few hours to myself tonight. I have a one year old daughter who is going to turn 2 in September and it seems as if she hit the "terrible two's" a few months early. For the past week, I've had to sleep on the floor in her room beside the crib while holding her foot. I don't know why, but it calms her. And besides from giving her milk at night, which fortunately I've gotten her weened out of, it's the only thing I can do to get her to go back to sleep. Although I do have to wake up in the middle of the night, I am getting my sleep, but waking up with horrible back pain in the morning.
She goes through this phase on and off. For a whole straight, she slept from 9PM until 8AM without a peep. But then she goes right back to waking up and it usually lasts for a about a week or two.
I haven't really figured out what works, yet, because it always changes. Sometimes holding her feet will do, sometimes I have to play with her hair, sometimes I have to put the fan on, sometimes she falls asleep with soft music in the backgrount, etc. But one thing I did notice is consistency and having a schedule.
At night we usually eat around 8PM, then she takes a bath a few minutes after eating, and then we go to her room to read. I recommend "Mouse Mess"
and of course the ever popular "Goodnight Moon."
Having a schedule might not make her sleep throughout the entire night, but she always falls asleep within about five minutes.
As for consistency, having a consistent sound as she sleeps or until she falls asleep works. I have a Kindle with a playlist specially created for her with songs from Luther Vandross,
Boys II Men, and a few great slow country songs that always work. Besides from music, I have a fan that I put in her room, though not always facing her (it depends on how hot it is). I remember when I was a child and I loved hearing the sound of rain outside our house, it always makes me sleepy. When I lived in my parents house, the washer and dryer were right beside my room and every weekend I was able to take a nap in the after noon because that was when my mother would do the laundry.
I'm not saying go crazy out of your way to create a constant sound, but any little thing would do. It worked for me, it worked for my husband when he was younger, and it works for my daughter.
I think the reason for this is all the way from when we were in the womb. As unborn infants, we were able to hear sounds from outside our mother's womb, but mostly it was muffled.
I saw this little teddy bear
that makes womb sounds at the store, I think it might have been Babies R Us (they have everything). I would have bought it, except I think maybe I was low on money after buying baby clothes, a crib, and 20 different blankets that I later realized I wouldn't need.
Well it's almost two years later and though I have to get up in the middle of night from time to time, I must say I think it's better than having to get up every 3 hours to feed her (which usually resulted in staying up all night). Though I do miss the fact that back then she wasn't telling me "no" or giving me the stink eye.
She goes through this phase on and off. For a whole straight, she slept from 9PM until 8AM without a peep. But then she goes right back to waking up and it usually lasts for a about a week or two.
I haven't really figured out what works, yet, because it always changes. Sometimes holding her feet will do, sometimes I have to play with her hair, sometimes I have to put the fan on, sometimes she falls asleep with soft music in the backgrount, etc. But one thing I did notice is consistency and having a schedule.
At night we usually eat around 8PM, then she takes a bath a few minutes after eating, and then we go to her room to read. I recommend "Mouse Mess"
and of course the ever popular "Goodnight Moon."Having a schedule might not make her sleep throughout the entire night, but she always falls asleep within about five minutes.
As for consistency, having a consistent sound as she sleeps or until she falls asleep works. I have a Kindle with a playlist specially created for her with songs from Luther Vandross,
Boys II Men, and a few great slow country songs that always work. Besides from music, I have a fan that I put in her room, though not always facing her (it depends on how hot it is). I remember when I was a child and I loved hearing the sound of rain outside our house, it always makes me sleepy. When I lived in my parents house, the washer and dryer were right beside my room and every weekend I was able to take a nap in the after noon because that was when my mother would do the laundry.I'm not saying go crazy out of your way to create a constant sound, but any little thing would do. It worked for me, it worked for my husband when he was younger, and it works for my daughter.
I think the reason for this is all the way from when we were in the womb. As unborn infants, we were able to hear sounds from outside our mother's womb, but mostly it was muffled.
I saw this little teddy bear
that makes womb sounds at the store, I think it might have been Babies R Us (they have everything). I would have bought it, except I think maybe I was low on money after buying baby clothes, a crib, and 20 different blankets that I later realized I wouldn't need.Well it's almost two years later and though I have to get up in the middle of night from time to time, I must say I think it's better than having to get up every 3 hours to feed her (which usually resulted in staying up all night). Though I do miss the fact that back then she wasn't telling me "no" or giving me the stink eye.
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