I'm just transferring some of my journal to a blog on here... I think I'll create one for each month..

I'll just start with the beginning first few months, and then as I progress I'll go to monthly.. than maybe bi-weekly and weekly etc.. towards the end!

Thanks for looking! ;)

Nothing much has changed.  Weaning is still going relatively well.

I think I may try to cut out the nursing before nap time this week just so it's easier on my mom when she has him while we're away.

Declan is still asking to be nursed a few times a day but when I say "no", and offer him a sippy cup he usually accepts it and moves on.  The only time it's difficult is when we're snuggling on the couch and he tries to lift up by shirt or shove his hand down my shirt...lol

I've been putting him to bed more often in the past few days and the night time weaning is still going very well.  I'm really proud of him and proudof myself for not breaking down.

So week one of wean from swaddle has gone alright. This is now week 2 and we’ve moved to the sleep sac, i.e. both arms out. He did ok with the morning and by the current sound of silence, the afternoon nap as well. Bedtime is always the test. The week went alright with the first few nights being quite tedious with the crying and back patting and sssh’ing. He’d go down at about 8, 8:30, sleep til 1a.m. and need ssh’ing, then sleep til around 5. So I worked on

I know i'm not the first to post on sleep issues...figured i'd just join the group :-) When noah was born, we had very little sleep issues.  From the birth board at prg.org i followed guidelines from the articles of Tizzie Hall  - Save our Sleep from about 8wks old. They worked and Noah was STTN by 3.5months, from 7:30pm-7:45/8a.m. His sleep cues were (and still are) easy to read. Bedtime routine was bath, feeding, lullaby, then to bed, swaddled. Around a month and a half later, he was having nothing to do with being swaddled so we stopped and all was well again.

I wasn't planning on posting another blog o soon but we had a pretty exciting phone call this morning and I wanted to share it. A very dear friend of mine called today, I didn't answer it at first because we haven't spoken in a while and I just didn't feel up to the strained small talk. We used to be very close and did so much together until he got together with his current girlfriend. Don't get me wrong, I adore her and I am so happy for them but I miss my friend.  Well the phone rang again about 5 minutes later and it was him again so I thought it must be something important so I answered it. We had a bit of small talk and then he asked me what Annalynn was doing in October. I was a bit confused at first, I was thinking maybe they wanted her to go somewhere with them seeing as his girlfriend is from the states.

Okay, here goes - I have no idea if this will actually show up where I think its supposed to on this website - its my first attempt at a blog!

Last night we finally decided to do something about DS's horrible sleeping patterns.  We realize its not his fault, and that most of the problems we have taught him.  SO we did our own version of cry it out.  After his nightly routine, I nursed him and put him to bed.  He woke up two minutes after that, and we let him cry for about 50 mins total (on and off) as we comforted him.  It was TOUGH.  I felt so heartbroken.  He stuck to his typical pattern last night (waking every two hours) but instead of jumping to get him right away, we let him cry for about 5-10 minutes each time before going in to comfort him.  By this morning, it seemed that he wasn't crying nearly as much... so I am hopeful it is going to work. 

 I never thought I would get to this point... I of all people disagreed with CIO SO much, but alas all the other types of things we have done have never worked.  The lack of sleep is really starting to drain me, and I have to go back to work in a few months. 

When I realized this morning he was still his normal happy self, I definately felt better.  Here's hoping tonight is easier (and that he sleeps more)!!