For everyone who doesn't know, we have been struggling to get Grady to sleep for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time for a couple of weeks now. He got into a bad habit of needing to nurse to fall asleep (totally my fault) so each time he'd wake up during the night he would need me to get up and feed him to get back to sleep. In addition to the nursing, he was also still being swaddled, sometimes sleeping in his car seat, and using a pacifier to fall asleep. All these things were keeping him from learning to soothe himself to sleep.After many weeks of sleepless nights, we decided it was time for Grady to cry it out a bit and learn how to soothe himself to sleep without all the sleep props (swaddle, car seat, pacifier and nursing). We started last Wednesday and he's been doing pretty well. Last night he slept from 7:30 PM until 5 AM! He woke up at 5 wanting eat and after being fed and about 15 minutes of chattering to his bear he went back to sleep for another hour and a half. He probably would have continued to sleep but it was time to get up and go to daycare so I had to wake him. Needless to say this is a great improvement and as hard as it was to hear him cry that first night it was totally worth it for all of us!
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