cio is hard!

chrisbride04

We have been having issues getting Connor to sleep. He starts screaming hysterically as soon as he hits the mattress, but up until two weeks ago he laid right down and went to sleep on his own. We have been rocking him for 30 + minutes and it's just too much. If we let him cry he usually ends up making himself vomit. Today at his 18 month checkup the doctor suggested letting him cry for 30 minutes before ever going in the room to soothe him. Tonight we tried it and wouldn't you know the little booger finally passed out at 27 minutes without vomiting. It was so hard to listen to him scream and I had to twice talk DH out of going in there to rock him. Thank goodness he's asleep now. Hopefully tomorrow won't be quite as hard on any of us.  

mom2ll

we turn off the monitor and turn up the TV..  I just can't listen to it..  It breaks my heart..  Sometimes I take a shower or something to drown it out..  I promise it will be shorter tomorrow...

danabelle

I, too, do what BPaullo does; it's very hard! Nothing gets my nerves more frazzled than hearing her cry.  I hope that the roughest night is over for you!

Nanner

Ugh, I agree--it is so hard!  It was especially hard with Hannah--she has the most dramatic shreiking cry, it would break me after just a few minutes.

I hope you're through the worst of it!

chrisbride04

tonight was great, he only cried for 1-2 minutes and was out. Now we have to get up the courage to let him CIO when he wakes up at 4am, which has just recently started.