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Wow. A Miracle.
Tonight, K put herself to sleep. She has never done this before.
I went through the normal bedtime routine. Eat dinner, bath, kiss good night from daddy, story, BF to sleep.
But tonight, she refused the boob. I laid her down in her crib and turned on her little music thing. No noise, no crying, no nothing. I checked on her after the music went off and she was out like a light.
I don't even know what to say. I am glad she did that and at the same time kind of sad that time could potentially be over for us.
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Re: Wow. A Miracle.
That is awesome! She probably was just not hungry tonight, I doubt she is done with nursing to sleep entirely.
I was wanting to ask you about CIO - I was thinking about trying it, but she is sick right now so I am waiting. Did you use the Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child book, or any book? Did you not go in all night? I am so glad to hear that it helped because I have been thinking about trying it for a while.
Katy and Brett ~ Runaway Bay, Jamaica ~ October 4, 2008
Started TTC Nov. 2011
1st clomid cycle June 2012- No response :: HSG August 2012- Left tube blocked, right tube clear :: 2nd clomid cycle Aug. 2012 BFN :: 3rd clomid cycle Sept. 2012 :: BFP Sept 30th :: DS born 6/15/13 :: BFP #2 7/29/14 M/C 8/5/14 :: BFP#3 10/20/14 DD born 7/1/2015 :: Applied to be surrogate April '17 :: Transferred 1 Embryo for IFs Dec. '17 :: Surro Babe born 9/11/18 :: Started 2nd Journey May '19 :: Transferred 1 Embryo for new IFs 9/24/19 :: HB 138 at 6w6d
I used the HSH, HC book. The book preaches laying her down to sleep drowsy, not sleeping, so she can put herself to sleep. But getting to sleep wasn't an issue for us. I would BF her to sleep and she would be sleeping within 15 minutes and out for a couple hours before waking up for the first time. So I followed the Extinction Method for night wakings, Timm and I considered the Fad Out Method but decided that it was ridiculous to drag out the change.
So I put her to sleep like normal at 7pm. She woke up at 9:12 and cried, scream, and kicked in her room until 11:32. It was the hardest 2.5 hours of my life. It was so tragic. When she started crying we checked on her to make sure that she was ok. We rubbed her belly and told her to go back to sleep.
To cope I read the science behind sleep habits in the HSH, HC book. It really helped. Timm also took the monitor outside for a while to give me a break and then I took it from him. Having the breaks helped.
She woke up around 12:30 and the book says it is ok to feed her at this time since she is used to eating all night long. So I fed her for about 20 minutes. Then I put her back in her crib drowsy but not sleepy. She put herself to sleep and I thought, "Progress?!" She woke up again at 5:30. And cried/fussed for about an hour but put herself back to sleep around 6:30. And woke up for the day around 7:30.
The next night she slept from 7-7. I could hear her wake up on the monitor but she never made any noise. Night 3 she slept from 7-6 and then back down until 7:30.
But seriously, the science behind bad sleep habits as a child and what that can lead to for an adult made me strong. And also thinking that if going in after an hour just made it so she would cry for an hour the next time if I ever had to do it again, made me keep going too. Having Timm for support was good too. He helped me remember why we were doing it, even though we were both like, OMG. WTF are we doing to our sweet princess!?
Let me know if you have any other questions.
You are my idol... I am going to have to warn the neighbors and do this too... I am dreading it, but Kiki's story is very inspiring.
But I also doubt she's done sucking boob before she goes to sleep. Might have been that she just wasn't hungry.
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Yay for K!
I'm so optimistic that I tried just putting her down last night, pretty awake at that. Sad to say, it didn't work. She laid there for about 15 minutes and then fussed. Why would I think that I 6 week old can just be put down to sleep?!
K would sometimes go down by herself. I tried it because the books recommend to start early. So you should probably keep trying. Just to get her used to it. I stopped and look where it lead me...to CIO.