Friday, October 31, 2014

Diaries of a serial nap fighter (days 2 & 3)

As you may of read, my boss and I have implemented a schedule to get the little nap fighter, Juliette, to start sleeping in her crib. Day one went as predicted… which was hard! She fought and won all three rounds. Days two and three went slightly better. 

Day two involved slightly less crying than before. She started to fall asleep within the initial twenty minute set time. Round one of day two, she slept forty five minutes in her crib. Round two and three she slept twenty five to thirty minutes in her crib, woke up extremely pissed off and took the rest of her nap in her rockaroo. Something her mom (and I agree) is necessary until we can get her used to falling asleep in the crib. One problem at a time for now.

Day three was similar to day two. The first nap she slept forty five minutes in her crib after going to sleep within twenty minutes. She woke up really happy. Nap two she slept forty minutes. Woke up exhausted and was basically a zombie baby for a little bit until she got a second wind (which coincidentally was when I was going to try her for a short cat nap) and decided she wanted to party. Nap three was a rough one. She slept about twenty five minutes in her crib. She woke up screaming her head off so I moved her to the rockaroo. She wasn’t happy there even though she was exhausted. Since she had a very small bottle before her nap, I gave her another two ounces and she went back down. In the rockaroo. 

So far it hasn’t been easy. It feels like we are making progress though. I just hope we aren’t going to add yet another sleep method to the graveyard of methods we already have. 

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