Torin had ZERO minutes of crying on his first night of sleep training. Am I doing this wrong?!
We did the bedtime routine, laid him down in the crib for the first time, and he just blinked at me and fell asleep after a few moments. I woke him up twice more to make sure I was actually putting him down awake, but got the same results! Ryan has theorized that fairies switched our baby.
He did wake about once an hour for the first half of the night, since the monitor picked up the sound of his head tossing and turning, but he only made one peep and just kept putting himself back to sleep. He woke hungry (and mumbling) only once every 4 hours (I was going to let him eat every 3, so this is great), and then returned to sleep as easily as at the beginning of the night.
I went into this expecting a battle, and ended up with peace... and got 6 hours of sleep total, which is a miracle. I don't know whether to be proud of him, or very very suspicious.
In case anyone's interested, I'll post again on the matter probably a week from now, once I'm more sure that his sleep has settled and it's not a fluke. If it ends up being a relatively easy transition, I'll also reveal the exact prep that I did for 6 weeks before attempting the first night of sleep training... I pulled a ton of info from books, internet first-hand experiences, and science in order to form a plan that I thought might make it easier for him to accept sleeping alone in the crib and putting himself to sleep. I do wish I'd come up with a plan before having a baby rather than trying to scrape together all the sleep info when I could barely function due to my own sleep deprivation.
We did the bedtime routine, laid him down in the crib for the first time, and he just blinked at me and fell asleep after a few moments. I woke him up twice more to make sure I was actually putting him down awake, but got the same results! Ryan has theorized that fairies switched our baby.
He did wake about once an hour for the first half of the night, since the monitor picked up the sound of his head tossing and turning, but he only made one peep and just kept putting himself back to sleep. He woke hungry (and mumbling) only once every 4 hours (I was going to let him eat every 3, so this is great), and then returned to sleep as easily as at the beginning of the night.
I went into this expecting a battle, and ended up with peace... and got 6 hours of sleep total, which is a miracle. I don't know whether to be proud of him, or very very suspicious.
In case anyone's interested, I'll post again on the matter probably a week from now, once I'm more sure that his sleep has settled and it's not a fluke. If it ends up being a relatively easy transition, I'll also reveal the exact prep that I did for 6 weeks before attempting the first night of sleep training... I pulled a ton of info from books, internet first-hand experiences, and science in order to form a plan that I thought might make it easier for him to accept sleeping alone in the crib and putting himself to sleep. I do wish I'd come up with a plan before having a baby rather than trying to scrape together all the sleep info when I could barely function due to my own sleep deprivation.
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