{final night} Night Five and tonight's regression

Last night as I wrote about Night 4, I had just put Nicholas down for Night Five of my "Committed to DOING something about NICKY'S Sleep" and he was currently clocking in at 4 minutes of off and on screaming. Before I finished writing my blog he was fast asleep (I checked) with in 8 minutes.

Tonight is a different story. He climbed in his crib easily enough, laid down, grabbed the tags of his bay blanket, put them to his ears and closed his eyes. And when I kissed him good night, he shot straight up and started screaming.

It's now 3 5 minutes later....
H E A R for yourselves...
So H A R D not to run upstairs and hold him
Could my H E AR T break any more...



Notice its all D A D D Y by the way?


Disclaimer:
I feel heartless for recording this and if you don't have kids...W E L C O M E

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Night Four. Sicky

Last night we returned from taking pictures around 9 pm. Nicky complained of a "hurt tummy". We kept him up watching TV for a bit until he felt better. He fell fast asleep when we finally put him to bed. I still think that counts...even if we kinda cheated.

{I'm writing this as we begin Night 5. He has been crying for 4 minutes... I'll update tomorrow. Good Night!}

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Night Three. Bedtime.

5 

MINUTES!

We'll see how he does through the night.

Until tomorrow!

Good night to all.

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Night Two. The Horsey Bay

It's not easy listening to Nicky scream for 40 minutes. We did Ok last night. After 20 minutes he started to calm down, but then Nicky asked for his "horsey" bay, because the dalmatian, puppy, dinosaur, lamb, froggie, blue hippo, tiger, and giraffe bay where not good enough. So I went up there to give it to him, and we started all over again. It went somehting like this:

Scream. 

"Mommy lay down!"  

More Screaming. 

"Lay DOWN Mommy, Right There" {points to floor, as if I didn't know}

Me, very calmly: "No Nicky Good Night. Its Bed Time."

{Hiccups} "NO Mommy, No, lay down!  

More High Pitch Screams

I shut the door and went down stairs

Then, Dan started screaming at me : "Why would you go up there?!? #4@%!! He was almost alseep, you have NO PLAN, what, what, WHAT are you doing!!??"

 {haha, Kendal that was for you!}

Now, Nicky was still screaming., the dogs jumping up and down. So I started screaming. Just to join in. 

Scream Fest.

Anyways, he finally fell asleep at 8:12 and slept all night. Semi-Success?

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Committed. Night One

After accepting my reality yesterday, I decided to do something. 

It's obviously out of hand (see below for yesterday's morning picture) 

I am committed to getting Nicholas to sleep in his OWN bed

for him, for us, for our sanity.

I'm putting it out there to have accountability for my decisions and actions

 

I asked Dan for 5 nights. 

5 nights to put him to bed in his crib at 7:30 ( and not on a mattress on the floor)

say "byebyeseeyoumorningseeyoulatergoodnightiloveyou"

and close the door. And not open it until 7 am the next morning.

Last night was Night One

Down at 7:45ish and cried for *only* 20 minutes

not a PEEP all night. I even went up at 3 am to check on him!

(note: this is highly unusual. Was my son body snatched?) 

AND then. I had to WAKE HIM UP at 7:30 am this morning for school...

Can it really be this easy? Not a unicorn in sight!

Fingers crossed for Night Two.

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Proverbs

The idiom the straw that broke the camel's back is from an Arab proverb about how a camel wearing shoes is loaded beyond its capacity to move. Kinda like what it feels like when you get no sleep

This is a reference to any process by which cataclysmic failure (a broken back or ME) is achieved by a seemingly inconsequential addition (a single straw or LACK of SLEEP) - something is deemed to be the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences. It was obvious our sleep training for Brandon wasn't training any sleep and that has become unacceptable. And my own sanity was on its way to a cataclysmic failure.

Desperate times called for desperate measures. We had to get Brandon to sleep through the night. But what do we do? I have been too tired to read any sleep books, I have no time, when I do have time, I just want to sleep. Vicious circle of pretending we had a system and hoping that the next night would be the last. Finally we resorted to the tried and true Cry it out. Monday we began our new regime.

And hardly a regime it was...It's been 2 nights now and Brandon has slept through the night both nights. What a champ. What a big boy! (even better Nicky never woke up once either!) I've gotten some sleep and I swear I'm a whole different person. I showered today! haha. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I have a whole new outlook on life. Every cloud has a silver lining, and that's a proverb I like.

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