sweet sleep

So Eli's sleeping at night has been getting progressively worse over the past few months. For most of the last month I had been up every three hours with him during the night, if not more often. I was EXHAUSTED and at the end of my rope. After a long, tearful email (I cried as I wrote it) to our pediatrician from Orange County and a subsequent phone call, we decided it was time for Operation Sleep to begin. Dr. Ball assured me that Eli is NOT hungry that often and that by rocking him before he goes to sleep (although we don't rock him to sleep) we were teaching him to depend on the rocking to be soothed to sleep so when he woke up in the night he was wanting that rocking again to get back to sleep. He told me that it was time to move Jayden out of the room and just let Eli go back to sleep when he woke up. So Saturday night Jayden went down to bed upstairs in the Pack N Play and Operation Sleep began. It was a long night, full of a lot of waking and crying but then Sunday night he slept all the way through the night without making a peep once. Same thing last night!! Wahoo!!! We couldn't believe a couple things: 1) how hard Saturday night was and 2) how quickly it worked.

Dr. Ball, if you ever check in on our blog, thank you so much!!!

Here's a picture of our new champion sleeper!!