Sleep Training
Thought i’ll do a short post on this since I was talking to a friend abt it and encouraging her about sleep training. Since it has worked for Sophie, I normally make it a point to encourage parents to keep at it once they have put their mind and heart to doing it. Like how Cecilia made me stick to it. hahaha. Ok she didn’t make me but she kept me at it. Kicked my butt when I became soft. Thank God for friends like that.
I’ll write about how we did it another time. Let’s just say we did a cross between a "cry it out" and "go in n check every 5 – 15 mins, stretching it each day" consistently since Sophie’s been home from the hospital.
But just wanna say how glad we are that Sophie now sleeps from 7pm to almost 7am, sometimes 8am, without crying most nights. We’ll go thru the usual routine – change, feed, talk, sing, pray, give her her pacifier and little bolster, say good nite, leave the room and she’ll fall asleep on her own, no crying most nites.
We went thru difficult times hearing her cry, running in and out of the room esp night nursing, resisting temptation to nurse her to calm her down when we knew she didn’t need night feeds anymore……… but we’re enjoying the fruits now. It’s good. 