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| goodbye, sweet rock 'n play... I love you so... |
Well, maybe "ready" isn't the correct term. Night 1 wasn't too bad - he made it 6 full hours without a peep, and then another few hours after that. But night 2 (last night) almost got the best of me. He slept 5 hours (9 pm - 2 am), but then was fussy and could not go back to sleep until almost 5 am! He would doze off, and then immediately wake himself up. Yes, you read that right: mommy was up from 2 -5 am with her fussy, tired boy.
I didn't think the transition would be so challenging, since he's been taking (generally) great naps in his crib for a few weeks now. He's learning how to put himself to sleep and seems pretty comfortable sleeping on his side. I had to let him cry it out the first few times we put him down for naps in his crib, but it only took a day or two for him to get the hang of it.
Silly mom. Of course it's a challenge. He's moving from right next to our bed, where he's slept every night for nearly 6 months now, into his own room and his own large space. Not to mention his favorite thing to do at night is to take his pacifier out of his mouth and then wave his hand around, at which time his paci will sometimes make it back in his mouth (YES!), sometimes fall out of his hand where he can reach (*hold your breath*), or sometimes get thrown out of the crib, practically across the room (NOOOOOO!).
I know I'll eventually need to take that thing away and teach him to fall asleep without it, but we're taking baby steps here. Fingers crossed that in the next week or so things will mellow out and he'll go back to his previously amazing sleep schedule, courtesy of the rock 'n play: 8:30 pm - 7:30 am, typically only waking up once around 4 or 5 to nurse. <---that is doable. This is not. so. tired...
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| Sweet boy. (PS - at night I put him in a sleep sack. No blankets when I'm not keeping my eye on him!) |
