Alright, so we are going on our 6th night of "sleep training" with Grady. My last post described how the first night was terrible. The second night he slept from 8:30 pm - 5:30 am without a peep and then cried a little bit and then slept on until 7! I was thinking "wow, this is great, that was so easy!" HA...HA...HA. The next two nights were terrible again, he slept until about 2, then couldn't settle in for more than 30-45 min of sleep at a time. So back to square one.
Last night we braced for another sleepless night. We decided to set the timer to go in every 20 minutes when he was crying to check on him but NOT give him his passy and force him to learn to soothe himself back to sleep. I just knew he would cry for hours. I was shocked when I woke up at 4 and had not heard him all night long, AND he was still asleep. So I went back to sleep and woke up again about 6:30. When I looked at the monitor this time he was awake and just looking around!! Amazing! I'm convinced that both nights he slept through he was just exhausted from crying all night the previous nights, but I'll take it!
What's funny is that when I ask a lot of my friends what they did with their young children to help them sleep through the night, nobody remembers. And to be honest, if someone asked me about CC's sleeping habits as an infant, I don't really remember. I remember her waking up all the time and gradually not waking up as much, but no real specifics. All of that to say while it feels like the end of the world at the moment, one day Grady's sleeping habits will be a faint memory to me as well (single tear drop). CC's current sleeping habits? Well, tonight she's sleeping in her rainboots!
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