Sleep
The current situation is definitely a vast improvement from the past few months but we still have more to go. But really it’s all about baby steps right?
Logan now sleeps in his own crib, in his own room for all naps and at night. Sometimes he will cry for 10 minutes or so before going down for a nap but at bedtime there is hardly a peep to be heard. His teething has been really hurting him this week so I’m no longer being stone cold about letting him cry it out for naps or in the middle of the night. Instead I go in and put my hand/s on him and sing to him or shush him to sleep. He drifts off rather quickly so it’s still an improvement on the past. And I feel better because there was a noticeable change in the sound of his cries from last week and this. He needs to know he’s loved and that I’m here and I won’t stop offering that during a time of such pain. He still wakes between 1-3 AM. If it’s before 3 I just go in and check on him, give him kisses and walk back out. He will fuss for a few minutes but then falls back to sleep. I’m trying to get him used to waiting 6 hours to feed and since the last feeding before I go to bed is at 10, I’ve been slowly stretching him by an hour each week. We are almost there!
Both boys usually wake up after 30-45 minutes during naps. I listen and hope they will put themselves back down into deeper sleep but if they start to cry I go in and offer a comforting hand and some shushing. I’d say that it works about 75% of the time with Forest and about 60% of the time with Logan. If they don’t go back to sleep they are inevitable tired and cranky for the next two hours. Logan is more likely to not wake up or to put himself back down without needing help so I guess that ups the average to more even.
We attempted to let Forest put himself to sleep and “cry it out” but I couldn’t do it. He has always been the even tempered baby, the “easy” one if you will. Hearing him cry broke our hearts, so we will try again later. I have no idea how to get both boys sleeping in the same room since they have trouble falling asleep while the other is crying. So the co-sleeper is back in our room and Forest is sleeping in there. Maybe once Logan gives up struggling so much for naps or waking throughout the night we’ll be able to sleep them in the same room again. I discovered this week that Forest is able and willing to sleep through the night, so I’m going to stop waking him when we feed Logan and let Forest just enjoy. Right now he is only willing to let Brad and I put him down for some reason. So we put him in the bed and again rock and/or shush him to sleep.
We are now getting a lot more sleep then ever before and it’s great! But I still wake up at the slightest noise either boy makes or even just out of habit. I guess Logan and I need to learn to just let go of those habits together.
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