And we're back talking about sleep. After a week of terrible nights -he was up 2 or 3 times- we decided that we would start sleep training, for reals this time. We contemplated two methods -one where we stay in the bedroom with him and one where we check on him- and chose the latter, but after we checked on him once we realized it made things worse so... we let him cry. That was tough. it took 45 minutes but then he threw his pillow pet on the mattress, threw himself on the pillow, and fell asleep -just like that! He slept through the night!
Yesterday, things were EASY. He fell asleep after 3 minutes of crying for his first nap and took only 20 minutes for his second. At night, he was asleep after crying for less than 30 seconds.
And then today came, and boy... it was hard. Hhhhhard. We had to forego his first nap because he was still crying after an hour. We rocked him for his second nap (his first, technically) because he just needed to sleep. And tonight he cried for 1h40. That's 100 minutes. Straight. Joe had to leave the apartment and I relied on texting friends who had done that method successfully with their babies -and who thankfully answered right away (have I mentioned I love my friends?).
He's asleep now. Sleep training is a b*tch, lemme say that and excuse my French.
Speaking of which, it was Bastille Day on Saturday. We didn't do much but I craved crepes like crazy!
1 comment:
Well crap. I was thinking about you this week and should've messaged you. So sorry you had to listen to him cry for 100 minutes. Poor baby and poor momma. I hope this works, and quickly!!
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