Square one
So here's our new goal: Get Evan to sleep in his own room in his own bed all night long, regardless of how we get him to sleep. We can rock him to sleep, pat him, whatever. Later we will work on getting him to soothe himself to sleep so he's less dependant on us. We feel we were expecting him to do everything at once (stop the night feeding, sleep on his own, soothe himself to sleep, sleep through the night). Now we will focus on this one goal: Evan in his own room.

Last night we had the same problem with the night routine as the previous night, since starting cry-it-out: during the usually-happy bathtime, Evan cried. He cried louder when being changed into his jammies. He dreaded going to bed, dreaded the crib. He hated the last two nights being made to cry it out and now he has a negative association with sleeping. When Jerry rocked him, instead of it taking the usual 3 minutes for Evan to fall asleep and go down, it took 1 hour. Every time he would start to fall asleep, Jerry would move him slightly, and Evan would immediately open his eyes and start crying. Since using cry it out, things are worse. So we are starting over at square one. We need him to have a good association with his crib and room, then we'll work on the other stuff.

Night Log #1
Sleeping in his own room
Successes: He slept in his own room all night. He breastfed only twice.
Challenges: Still waking frequently, harder to get to sleep, afraid of the crib.
Last night's Stats:
Time required to put him to sleep: 1 hour
Longest sleep stretch:3 hours
Number of total night wakings: 5
Time required to get him back to sleep each time (average): 20 mins
Number of feedings: 2

Typical co-sleeping night (before starting any sleep training):
Time required to put him to sleep (average): 3 mins.
Number of total night wakings (average): 5-7
Time required to get him back to sleep each time (average): 10 mins
Number of feedings (average): 5

So some things are better, some are worse. Overall, I think we're heading in the right direction. It was only the first night with this system. We're going to do the same thing for one week before we try to expect anything new from him.

Sorry if these recent postings are too technical and boring. We feel like it helps keep us on track to post our progress. At some point we'll be happy and rested and fun to be around again. For now, forgive us and stick with us! :)