For those of you who don’t know, we have been remodeling our master bedroom/bath for—going on—5 months or so. It’s great because we’re going to have a beautiful bedroom/bathroom…but it hasn’t been so great to be smashed into fewer rooms. Because of this, Jane has been sleeping in our room for her whole life. The last few weeks she has been getting up two or three times to nurse, and it’s killing me. So, I finally opted for the inevitable, yet extremely difficult option, letting her cry. It’s virtually impossible to do if you’re in the same room…so I set up a crib for her in the sewing room. The first night she cried for about 45 minutes…and…drumroll, she hasn’t cried since then and has been sleeping through the night. My quality of life has just been raised up a few notches. I suppose the pity party is over.
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What a great song by Hootie and the Blowfish. I guess they were right after all.
Look at her...she can't keep her eyes open. Well done, Emily. I've started doing that with Christian, and it seems to be working.
Good job Em. I'm glad your getting your sleep now...because if your anything like me:
no sleep= no fun for everyone else.
nice sade. 7:54 exactly!
I've always said that teaching kids to "sleep" through the night is like breaking horses. You just gotta ride it out until the horse gets too tired to buck!
We were great at letting the babies cry... although once we put Marty down in the unfinished basement in his crib, and let him cry and cry... Steve tied me to the bed to keep me there. The next morning we found Marty fast a sleep on the cement floor... he had fallen through the cribs slats... oops!
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