Our First Try

Ever since the time change and our trip to Spokane, Eli's "schedule" (if a 7 wk old baby has a schedule) has been all thrown off. He sleeps too much during the afternoon (despite efforts to keep him awake) and then wants to be awake until 2am or later. Granted, he still sleeps about 5-6 hours once he actually goes down - but I certainly don't like staying up that late. I miss going to bed at the same time as Eric. And not only does Eli want to be awake that late, he likes to give me little false alarms by falling asleep earlier but then waking up once I lay him down in the bassinet and crawl into bed. Ah!!! Very frustrating.

Well last night I had had enough. I was up and down with him about 3 times and then finally decided I wasn't going to play the game anymore. So last time was my first try at laying him down in his own room while he was wide awake. I figured that since he was fed, changed and warm, there was nothing else I could do for him...so it was time for him to cry himself to sleep for the first time.

Ironically, when I laid him down he didn't cry. I turned on soft music for him and left the lamp on so that he could look at this mobile and then I tip-toed out of the room and went to bed. What do you know, the kid fell asleep all on his own and didn't even cry about it.

Of course this was a hard thing for mommy. I didn't like him being in a different room where I couldn't see him or hear him clearly. And I guess it sort of made me feel like my baby was growing up (sniff sniff). But.....lol.....I was asleep by 1:40! :) Saweeet!

Little Boy slept until 6am in his own room. Of course you want to say that I'm a lucky mommy, but the truth is that he slept until 6am, I however did not. I got up 2x's during those hours to check on him. lol.

...guess it's hard to let them go, isn't it?

:)

Love,
Sleepy Mommy