live blogging the sleep training

It worked?

After last nights’ crying session, he slept till 4:30 a.m. That’s better than it’s been most nights lately. But here’s the really wild part:

I got up, Scott brought him to bed, I nursed till 5:15 — the usual routine. The boy started getting active, wanting to crawl all over daddy. Time to get up! But daddy’s still sick and wouldn’t budge.

I was also pretty damn tired. Boy slept, but husband was up and down all night long. Took boy to nursery, held him on lap in vice-like hug grip, rocked and shushed in rocker. And the crazy thing? He fell back to sleep. I put him in the crib and he didn’t get up again until 6:45!!!!!!

O.M.G.

Also, the 4:30 wake-up was the angry yowling cry kind, but the post-6 wake-up was the tweedle-dee I’m just going to hang out in my crib and talk to myself until the others arrive kind. The well-rested baby kind. Hurray!

The ped had said to only tackle one issue at a time: bedtime first, then the night waking. Could it be that the 4:30 wake-up is a night-waking, that may one day fade?

In related news — the folks at Dr. Greene’s website got wind of our struggles and gave us a shout out. Woke up today to find yet more encouragement on the web. Thanks Ms. Greene!

For a lot of interesting comments from moms who’ve been there, check out this post at Her Bad Mother — which helped me during the melee last night.