During your 22nd week we started sleep training. Ugh it was awful, you cried and cried. I knew that you needed to get more sleep and I could not go to bed with you at 7 pm since I only get home from work at 6:30 pm, so I knew that you needed to be able to go to sleep and stay asleep without me nursing you. I read so many books about it: The No Cry Sleep Solution (should be called the no sleep solution), Sleeping Through the Night, The Sleepeasy Solution, Good Night Sleep Tight and I have downloaded Solving Your Child's Sleep Problems, but have not had the chance to listen to it yet. I knew that you would cry, I was following the Sleep easy rules in which I could comfort you with my voice, but not touch you. I did not however leave you alone I laid next to your bassinet while you cried. The first night was awful you cried for 1 hour and 5 minutes before going to sleep, your Dad went to sleep in the studio since he could not handle it. I was in tears and shaking by the end and so wired I could not sleep even after you drifted off. The second night 20 minutes of crying, the third 3 minutes and the fourth 1 minute. I would love to say that you can go to sleep in 1 minute now, but we have had some set backs. I do think that you are sleeping better though and naps are easier too.
I wish that there was another way to teach you to sleep. I could not find one, and despite the tears (yours and mine) I do think that it was worth it in the end. Now you sleep for 1.5 to 2 hours before waking up to eat, and once you wake up I bring you into bed with me and we co-sleep and nurse the rest of the night. I was not ready to give that up yet and honestly I could not take any more of your sweet baby tears. Plus waking up with you cuddled against me is one of the sweetest starts to the day that I could ever imagine.
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