I am sure most of you don't care about Olivia's progress, but, I am hoping that if I document the successes it will be a good motivator the next time I have to let a kid cry it out!
While I was writing my last post she was screaming, tyring really hard to not fall asleep. Well, after a full hour of crying I finally got her up. I decided going without a nap isn't the end of the world. An hour of crying is enough for nap time. However, I was worried that she'd be too tired to fall asleep easily.
Night #5: We didn't get her in bed as early as I would have liked, but, at 8:30pm Tyler read to her and laid her in bed where she rolled over and closed her eyes. Not a whimper out of her. She did wake up around 10:00pm, but we let her cry. She was asleep again within 2-3 minutes and slept until 7:30am!
Holy moly, I am really starting to think this might be working. Maybe it isn't too good to be true! I haven't had this much uninterrupted sleep in over a year! Even when I was pregnant I was waking up numerous times to go to the bathroom!
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so...i didn't put my name on the list for the apron class when we were there. do you know if there's room for me? katy asked if i was going to come but i didn't know if you guys had invited anybody else and it was too full. let me know your thoughts....
so it's not a private class with just you and your ma and sis? it's actually the class with anyone who wants to come? yeah--i'll call her tomorrow again and see if she has room if it's the generic class...
Your sleeping stories have inspired me and I have started to try and let Julia CIO. I am so guilty of letting her fall asleep while feeding her and then puting her in her crib. It has come back to haunt me and I am trying to reverse the habit.
Nights are going well and tonight she only cried 2 minutes! Naps, well lets just say they aren't happening. I guess we will keep it up. Oh the woes of motherhood!
I am so "PRO-cry it out" Meagan it is HARD at first because of those "long" crys but it's a small price to pay, oh and girl it does PAY off! I even think that the strictness of it helps alot with when she gets older...she will know at such a young age that mommie and daddy say what they mean and they "stick to it"...It takes away alot of the stubborn ways of trying to get mommie to say yes when dad already said NO! My kids know by now that if mom says no...they don't need to ask dad because they know were on the same page! Good for you girl...keep it up, by next month you'll be in SLEEPING HEAVEN! :P
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