Well we just finished night #2 where the girls slept from 7pm to 10p-6:30am… awesome. Nap time has also streamlined. I think we are on to something.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Stephanie
November 20th, 2008
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If you don’t know what this stands for… I pray you never find out…
It means “Cry It Out” and is a sleep method made famous by Ferber. It involves allowing your baby to cry herself/himself to sleep with occasional reassurance from the parents.
Well after a run of good fortune and babies that sleep, Emilie has been slipping backwards every night. Where she once was sleeping for 5+ hours a night, she now is awake earlier and earlier each night… Last night was the final straw. On their 4mo birthday I started the CIO method (what a great present!!). As I sat at the computer at 2am reading about the CIO method (and while Emilie screamed her little head off and I was almost in tears) and had to wonder if I was doing the right thing.
Jason and I have decided to take control back from the girls and have decided to dictate nap time, sleep time, wake time and feeding time. So today they took their first formal nap since their sleepy newborn stage. We created a ritual and put them down in their crib. They have been asleep for one hour with no crying…. can we call this a success?? Let’s see
Stephanie
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September 6th, 2008
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Yesterday we witnessed our first round of “pay back” between the girls… here is what happened….
Both girls were suppose to be napping in their cribs when we heard Ava start crying (screaming, really). When we went into the room we found Emilie turned perpendicular (put to sleep parallel) to her sister kicking her in her face. Now, I find this horribly ironic as the roles were reversed in utero when Ava was kicking Emilie in the face during our last ultrasound at 35 weeks… pay back is a bitch, I say.
Stephanie
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