1) The length of time that Jonathan will cry when he wakes up at night exceeds 1 hour
2) The length of time that Mommy and Daddy are able to listen to him cry without their hearts breaking is somewhere less than 5 minutes
3) The volume of Jonathan's crying carries clearly through the house with doors closed and baby monitors off.
4) At 3am Mommy's willpower is small enough to be considered zero.
We are back to 2 feedings per night (11ish and 3ish) plus one right before I h
ead off to work (6ish). It is just so much easier to go upstairs than to listen to him cry. And it turns out I am not convinced he is waking up purely out of habit and not out of real hunger. He is thriving in every other way and so I keep thinking that if he is doing so well and I am surviving, why rock the boat? ESPECIALLY when letting him cry results in so much less sleep for me and I don't know that the results of letting him cry it out will be what I want. Besides how can you say no to this face??
Eventually he will naturally outgrow this right? Surely by the time is heading off to college?
I was still doing 2-4 feedings a night (although I considered "night" a longer stretch) when Simon turned 1. He now sleeps 12 hours straight at night. He was completely weaned (no night feedings) at 15 mos. So, it will come with time, and then you'll look back and won't believe how quickly he grew up, and may end up deciding that you absolutely have to do the whole thing again!
ReplyDeleteThanks Erin! It has been good to hear people who have had similar experiences. A lot of the people I've talked to have had babies who started sleeping 12 hrs at a pop by like 2 months and then I start to feel like something is wrong with Jonathan or with something we are doing/not doing!
ReplyDeleteSo far Cam has been almost exactly 3 months behind everything you've put up on this blog... Just so you know, hearing about your similar experiences has been good for us too!
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