hey christie - no need to apologize. i feel your fatique and frustration. clearly, you don't condone or agree with your husband's methods and i'm really hopeful that together, we can all come up with some better strategies to help our babies learn to put themselves back to sleep at night.
update on ella: 2 nights ago she slept for almost 11 hours straight. yeah!!
last night, we started her bedtime routine of books and breastfeed about 8.10pm. she was asleep by 8.42 pm. she awoke an hour later. i went into her room, laid her down and she went back to sleep.
45 minutes later, she was awake again.
i went into her room, laid her down and she went back to sleep.
she awoke at 5.30am and refused to go back to sleep. :shock: i just said forget it. i didn't have the energy or will to to the PD so we had a very early day.
yesterday, we were at the mall for a few hours so that threw off her daytime napping. (preparing to go back to work.) when i'm out of the house, i am hyper aware of the time because i do my best to keep her on her routine. we spent much longer than usual at the mall yesterday so i don't know if that affected her night time sleep. honestly, sometimes it's just a mystery. tonight, who knows. so far, so good.
i have to say though that even despite these recent sleep challenges, ella is such a happy, sweet baby. she's my sweetheart.
nevertheless, if anyone has any ideas about her nightwaking and what i can do, i would love to see them posted. thanks so much.
