Good morning! How did it go for everyone? We had decent luck here, I think (time will tell). LO helped a lot by sleeping until 11:30 pm, rather rare as of late (has been waking at 10ish). So I went in and picked him up (he was sitting up) and he cried. A lot. Pretty much without stopping as I stood by his crib, patted and shhhed with some PUs. As midnight struck, he was still crying without many pauses. So I decided to keep going, as it didn't make much sense to just stop then to feed. He did have some pauses but they were pretty short. Around 12:30 he started crawling to the edge of the crib, sitting up and reaching for me. I tried holding him but he didn't fall asleep. I decided to feed him at 1, since that would be seven hours since his last feeding and quite honestly, it seemed he might cry for hours more. I was hoping that he would just fall asleep suddenly, but no such luck. At 1:05, I gave him a bottle of milk and he took 1 1/2 oz then nursed for six minutes and started falling asleep. Fell asleep on my shoulder as I was carrying him to the crib, at 1:15.
He was then up at 4:45 for another feeding. No problems falling asleep after it. (Well, other than he was still falling asleep at the end of it.) Slept til 6:55 and woke up chatting.
So I hope I have not confused him totally. Going to try again to hold out til at least midnight. If we can at least drop the first feeding, then over time I am hoping/planning to drop the next one.
EloysH, thanks for sharing your story with Kai -- it definitely helped as I read it just before bedtime last night and it gave me courage to keep going!!
