It's 8:45 now. He went down at 8 and just stopped crying. Let's hope Night 2 of this experiment goes more smoothly.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Night 1: 45 minutes of sobs.
So I got a book, Sleeping Through the Night by Jodi Mindell. A lot of it isn't applicable to William's age yet, and a lot of it's what we're already doing or stuff I've read before, but we're going to try some changes. Regardless of what time Seth gets home now, I'm going to get him to bed by 7:30- 8. Hopefully the earlier bedtime will help him get the sleep he needs and not mean that he'll wake up ready for the day at midnight. Seth's out of town this week, but once he's back we're also going to try to have Seth get him when he wakes up in the night instead of me. It's the 3am feeding call that's killing me lately and the book says he shouldn't need food in the middle of the night anymore. With Seth getting him, giving him a cuddle, and putting him back to bed hopefully it'll break the habit of wanting to latch on for an hour and then sobbing horribly when I put him back in the crib after he gets his snack. I'm also going to enforce naptime now, whether he cries his head off every time I put him down during the day or not. Maybe if I make him nap he'll do more than take 15 minute cat naps when he gets exhausted.
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Good luck! It's so hard, I know. But you'll all be much happier and enjoy each other more when you're all getting better sleep! You can do it! Consistency is the key, and the most difficult part.
He woke up for an hour demanding a snack at 1am and again at 5am. Then got up at 9 for the day. At least he's consistent? Urgh.
I feel your pain! We had to do it with Lucy. She screamed going to bed and every time she awoke at night for a few days but now i just lay her in bed, she plays and goes to bed happy and sleeps tons better (still not all night though!)she takes good naps (used to be a cat napper) and goes to bed at 630-7 and gets up for the morning at 7. Does stink that Alex only gets to see her for a bit after work so that might be hard with seth but its worth it to have a happier rested baby! Hope it gets better for you!!
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