My baby boy is ten months old today. He is crawling and lifting himself up. The past three weeks have been brutal with teething but we made it past the initial hump of four new teeth.
When Nate was born I was good about nursing him then putting him down in his pack-n-play located in our bed room. Somewhere around month three, da mister suggested I just leave him in bed with me because it would be much easier and I would get more sleep. And it was initially.
Then the nights turned into day time naps and there you have it, we were co-sleeping. Since I am a light sleeper, this has been hard on me because Nate would wake every few hours to nurse or just move and disturb my sleep. I have been a walking zombie and this sleep pattern was not working for me.
I tried exactly two times to let him cry it out but I could not take him screaming. So what does an exhausted mother do? For me, I was tired. My arms hurt from carrying around a cranky baby and I finally broke down.
This past week I have endured the cries during nap time and on Friday evening I placed him in his crib for night time sleep. Surprisingly, the night time sleep has been quiet even though not much sleep is really happening at this point.
It is hard to hear him cry but I know that we are learning to self sooth (for me to) and develop better sleeping behaviors. What gives me hope is my pediatrician said that no parent that has ever done the cry out method has ever been sorry that they did.
There you have it folks. Barbie's guild to getting more sleep and getting stuff done.
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