I have to admit, this past week has been ROUGH with the little one. We have been sleep training her and every night I want to give up. I have been weaning her of night feedings, and she would still wake up every 2-3 hours. It got really frustrating. See, we follow a simple bedtime routine.. she eats cereal around 6pm, I give her a bath about 7pm, Her daddy comes home at 8pm, They say hello, I nurse her a little more, and lay her in her bed. In the beginning, she started fussing for 10 minutes, then it slowly dropped down to 5 minutes, and tonight.. well, she didn’t even fuss. I walked in the room, thinking she was asleep, only to catch her doing this (she didn’t even know I was in there):
(note: you will not be able to see anything in this video but the nightlight that was on. she is talking away and talked herself to sleep)
I wish Aidan would talk himself to sleep!!! If I put him in his bed and he’s the slightest bit awake, then he starts slamming his legs against the mattress like he’s ready to play…it gets frustrating!! The good thing is that it usually only takes me about 5 minutes exactly to get him to sleep.
Last night was surprising. He just did not want to keep his eyes closed in my arms. I was tired and thought I’d just take a shot at letting him do it on his own. He moved around for a little bit – maybe 3 or 4 minutes – then I didn’t hear from him again! It was nice!
Talking herself to sleep, hysterical!