It gives me hope. We have had some serious sleeping issues since Edie was born. Not with Edie,but with Waylon. We moved Waylon to a big boy bed a couple months before Edie was born. It was a pretty easy transition at the time. However,since Edie has been born, Waylon has started getting up time and time again. He does this both at bedtime and in the middle of the night. He's slept through the night about the same number of times that Edie has. It's been very exhausting. So, I pulled out the book again. We're going to try some things in the next couple weeks including out and out bribes. If he manages to sleep continuously through the night,he gets to pick something out of the goody jar. If they don't work,Waylon may be going back to the crib.Edie update...
She's doing well. Just growing and over all sniffles and coughs for now. She is really really trying to suck on her thumb and now sucks on her tongue from time to time. It's pretty funny. She continues her reign as a very easy baby with the exception of in the car. She passionately hates the car, especially while in the car pool lane at Byron's school. Then, she just cries and cries. Here's some cute pics...
First dress...
Sucking on thumb here...
and here...
Close up...
oh my word, she's adorable! the thumb sucking is so precious!
ReplyDeleteI, too, have brought out that book to look up things for older children! I think people forget there are tips in there for kids and not just babies. Georgia doesn't get up too often in the night, but we do have a sticker chart going right now for cooperating at bedtime and not doing "call backs" of us after we've made it through our bedtime routine for the night. It's been pretty effective for her. Also, a few months ago she was calling us back so much (and for ridiculous reasons), that we finally had to let her cry again and refuse to go in. We were thinking it would be a disaster, that she'd throw a FIT for like half an hour, but we were wrong. She only cried for like 2 minutes and then realized it wasn't going to work. At which point we felt dumb for having been scared to try that sooner!
I hope the book's tips work for you, too! You never know with kids!