Thursday, March 18, 2004

Tweak
Like Andrea said, I don't think this is working. But we have to keep focused on the goal of Evan sleeping through the night in his crib without waking. I think he's not been properly introduced to what we expect of him. From his point of view we're ignoring him while he wants to go to sleep. It may not be dawning upon him to lay down on his own in the crib so here is the tweak. I will rock him to sleep at first and put him in his crib. When he wakes we will rock him again and put him back into his crib. This may be more labor for us, but I think over time and with consistency he will get the jist of what we're trying to accomplish. So the step after that would be putting him in his crib while he's still awake and letting him figure out how to put himself to sleep.

Not all babies can be "Ferberized" that is, not all kids take to the cry it out method. The fact that he is screaming with the same verve and vigor at 2am after six hours of screaming says to me this kids got spunk. And I like that about the little man. So what can we do but adapt, improvise and be compassionate to this unique little person.

The upside is that he only breastfed once and he spent 2 nights in his crib now. I think we're moving in the right direction, we've just not seen the results we had hoped. I sympathise with all you parents who did this cry it out thing and had to endure your child screaming for over an hour. We've had to endure over 13 hours of him screaming. That is no good for anybody involved. Time to move on. We'll still post his progress. Stay tuned.

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