Rough Night

So last night was pretty rough. Tyler was so tired from daycare that he actually went to bed at 6PM last night! That was really early for him as his usual bedtime is 7PM. So I was actually expecting that he would wake up at 4AM or 5AM. Nope. He woke up at 10PM and at 2AM.

The 10PM one wasn’t so bad. He yelled a couple of times and went back to bed again.

The 2AM one was pretty horrible. We let him cry for about 20min and then it turned bad. It sounded like he was hurting in there or something. Rob got up to try and give him a bottle but he only drank 2 oz and then he wanted to play! Well, he got put back in his crib and the screaming started all over again. He finally fell back to sleep but it took a while. I think we need to Ferberize this baby! We have been trying to do it at bedtime because he screams bloody murder if he is still awake when you put him to bed. It works better at bedtime, not great. He still falls asleep at the bottle and we have to wake him up slightly to put him to bed, but I don’t think that counts. Oh well, I just want him to consistently sleep through the night. He has been doing it on and off since he was 3 months old but it has never been consistent. Sometimes, he would wake up wanting to play or wanting a bottle and sometimes we pick him up. I think we need to stop or he will never learn to self soothe when he wakes up in the middle of the night.

He has been waking up at 4AM consistently for the past few weeks now and that is difficult but on the days when we let him cry it out, he will usually go back to sleep and wake up at 6:30AM. I think we need to be consistent with it or it will not work. If he is smart enough to know that crying will get him picked up, he is smart enough to know that if he cries at night, he will get picked up too. Hopefully the Ferber method will teach him to self soothe…… Rob & I both desperately crave sleep!!!!!