So the Wee Man moved out. It's hard day for any parent when their child moves out, and the time really flew by. It seems like just yesterday that he was sleeping in our room, and now he's in the next room over, in his very own bedroom.
In an effort to improve his (and our!) sleeping, we shipped him out from his crib to a floor bed in his own room. Our thinking was that without us to distract him in the night, he might get better at self-soothing and sleep longer. For the first two nights, it didn't go very well. He would wake up often, and wound up sleeping with us anyway by about 10:30 or so. The upside to this system is that now I can put him down, since before he basically insisted on being nursed to sleep. Now we can trade back and forth, and hopefully get him used to sleeping by himself.
Two nights ago was our greatest success yet, and probably his best night sleeping since we could swaddle him. We put him down about 6:30, which is his normal time. He slept solid until 9:45 or so, and I went in and cuddled him back to sleep. I try to put him down on his stomach, which is a little less safe but lets him sleep much better. Thus, he slept until about 1:00 in the morning, when he started to fuss again. This time, Raptor-Mom nursed him back down, and then he slept until 5:00! When my alarm went off for school, I panicked momentarily that he hadn't woken up again, then I turned on his new video monitor. He was sitting up in bed, looking a little dazed but pretty happy. I think he just woke up at the same time. Hopefully we're on our way to a better sleeping schedule and a little more rest!
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