Phase one of sleep training stunk, multiple nights of her screams and whimpers to go check on her sleeping later crumpled in the corner of her crib… However, it is very very very worth it that she goes to bed at 7 and does not wake up until ‘morning’ other then the occasional bad dream. ‘Morning’ is around 5:30 ish and she joins us in our bed for her only feeding of the day. At one time she went back to sleep within 10 min and so did I but recently she has taken the formally peaceful hour and a half and turned it into beating up her parents. I don’t know who has it worse; I have the mouth end that will move from side to side (there is really not much milk) and occasionally head butt me, not to mention the claws that follow the head around. Lars gets the foot end and he gets kicked and used as leverage as she stretches out sideways between us. Not that I don’t want to cuddle her, but, morning mosh pit is not fun.
So last night, with no real planning behind it, Lars and I decided that we were going to start keeping her in the crib until 7. Today was a day she choose 4:30 to wake up and Lars went in there to comfort her and tell her it was still sleeping time. She went back to sleep for 5 min, just enough time for him to get back into bed. To his credit he stayed with her patting her and just ‘being there’ for the next 2.5 hours semi sleeping on her floor. At 6:50 she popped out of bed and cutely said “Hi!” “Hi dada!” like it was a great treat, and surprise, to find him there. It is a huge difference to wake up chipper v screaming so I figured that was a good thing to reinforce. I went in with bright and cheerful ‘good morning!’ (even though sleeping through 2.5h of her is not easy) and we got ready for school. She clung to me like a baby monkey so since we were up early we sat and watched 10min of Dora after we were all dressed and ready to go. I did the drop off because Lars looked like a zombie shambling back to bed, but, he can sleep until 9:45 and he didn’t get kicked much today so he should be good to go by work time.
I guess we are in for 3 days of this and then maybe she will sleep 7-7? I’m trying not to think about the nursing phase being over, it is so nice to solve the problems of the world so easily. I don’t know if the ‘last time’ was yesterday morning’s mosh pit but if she didn’t remember Lars being with her for the 2.5 hours this morning I bet she does not know that she is nursing in the mornings anymore either. Anyway, as of now it has been more then 24h since she has nursed so we will see….
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