Being Sara

We are pretty much settled into our rental house now.  Xander is sleeping in a queen size bed and across the hall Parker is in his crib.  For the most part, we’ve been sleeping blissfully well.  Parker has been sleeping straight through from 7:30/8:00pm to 6:30/7:00am without a peep! We have never been a “cry-it-out” family.  This resulted in Xander sleeping in our bed until well into his second year.  Parker has always slept in his crib, but I would often cuddle him to sleep and then put him down.  Recently he’s been rather disagreeable about cuddling before sleep.  So, a few nights ago I let him cry it out.  It took 12 long minutes, but then he fell asleep.  We tried this with Xander when he was a baby, but when Xander woke up it would be the middle of the night, and he wouldn’t stop until you picked him up, so we gave up pretty quickly.  Last night after we read books, I tried to cuddle Parker for a few minutes but he would have none of it, so after lots of hugs and kisses I put him in his crib, covered him up and walked out.  He squeaked maybe twice and then fell silent.

I feel like we’ve finally turned a corner when it comes to sleep in our house.  Parker’s been sleeping great for almost 2 weeks now, and Xander has occasionally woken up, but most nights goes back to sleep quickly.  Ahh… Sleep – it’s a wonderful, wonderful thing

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A few weeks ago Xander had his 6 month checkup. He did great – hated the shots, as all kid do, but his doctor was happy with his development, etc. The only criticism the doctor had was that Xander is not sleeping through the night. He suggested essentially letting Xander cry-it-out for a few nights, and then we would all sleep better. Zach decided that we should get right on the sleep training, so that night we started. We put Xander to bed in his crib – which he hasn’t really slept in (he’s been in a bassinet in our room), and we didn’t give him a bottle in the middle of the night, and we didn’t bring him into bed with us when he woke up. Needless to say, it was a pretty miserable night for everyone.

We didn’t do the full cry-it-out method – we did go in and comfort Xander at regular intervals. We did this Thursday night too, and then Friday and Saturday night Xander was visiting his grandparents. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night we continued in our efforts to get Xander to sleep through the night. We were all exhausted, and Xander wasn’t any closer to sleeping through the night, though he was starting to get a little nervous about bedtime. Finally, we gave up this cry-it-out method. Xander has been sleeping in our bed for the past week, and life has been much easier. Xander stirrs some in the night, and sometimes needs some help finding his pacifier, but for the most part, he sleeps pretty well, and we don’t usually give him a bottle. Some nights he has refused to eat dinner, and then he wakes up crying for food usually early in the morning.

I think in the next week or so we may try to transition Xander to his crib again, but I haven’t come up with any good solutions for what to do with him when he wakes up in the night if he’s in his crib. Since Zach and I both work, and we don’t have much vacation time to sacrifice at the moment, we’ve been doing whatever gets everyone the maximum amount of sleep. So as we continue to try various sleep methods, I’ll keep everyone posted, and if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

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