Sleep Update

Do you want to hear about the various ways we're training his sleep habits? No, no I'm sure you don't. I'm sure you don't actually care about the different techniques and routines and attempts. But since it's all I think about these days (far more so than necessary, considering the fact that he sleeps more than many kids his age as far as I can tell) and since people do keep asking how he's sleeping. . . here is the update.

a) I have a new book I'm in love with:

Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep

It says all the things I've heard before but it says them better and more cohesively. And it also gives a real step by step plan of action that I like. (Also a fantastic chapter on discipline in general. . . that we certainly don't need yet, but that I am going to make every parent I know read.)

b) He is now going to bed at 8 PM (without being nursed first -- so he can learn to fall asleep on his own and replicate that skill when he wakes in the middle of the night -- so he cries for about 7 minutes, which is an improvement over the hour he cried the first time we tried it). We feed him again at 10:30, usually without his waking at all, he just eats with his eyes fastened shut for 15-20 minutes. He sleeps until 5:30 AM.

c) Next step: Get him totally comfy with falling asleep on his own with no crying. . .