Jack-Jack has been a perfect sweet little thing, the only thing I wish I could change is his getting up 3 to 4 times a night, leaving him mother completely zombie like in the morning. After about 10 months of this, I think I have finally caved into the brutal thought that we should start to let him learn how to fall asleep less assisted. I can't believe I am actually doing the one thing I thought I would never let him do -- cry it out.
As we spend the next few weeks at our friend's massive house in NZ, Mic and I decided to give it a go at letting him learn to fall asleep on his own. Last night was the first time. We placed his bed on the mattress on the floor next to ours in the same room. He cried for about 20 minutes, I had to put on a movie in the living room to distract myself from his crying, but he did go to sleep at 8:30pm, so it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The 1am and 4am wakings were brutal, he screamed so hard after I nursed him and put him back on the bed, so I caved to nursing him back to sleep again. Mic thought I was being too soft and would confuse him more, so tonight we have set up to sleep in the room furthest away from him. In Mic's words, babies can adapt to anything, even if something had happened to us and he had to go to foster parents he will probably not remember us. True. Maybe a little crying wouldn't harm him as much as I thought it would.
Tonight, he went to sleep in the travel cot J lent us at around 8:20pm after about 10-15 minutes of crying. The true test will come after midnight. Let's hope he makes it through, or rather, I make it through without caving in again.
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