Emma's Battle

Well, a little update on Emma. She was always the best sleeper, from abuot 6 weeks until recently she slept great all night, 10-12 hours. Awesome. Then she started teething and got 6 teeth in three weeks for a total of 8 teeth now. That really screwed her up and she started waking up once in the middle of the night. Of course, Mommy gave her a bottle and put her back to sleep. Well, now, all 8 teeth in, Mommy is tired of getting up at 3am. I love ya Emma but I don't want to see you at 3am. So anyhow, yesterday Mommy decided she needed baby boot camp. We did this with Ethan at 6 months because he had never slept through the night at that point and we were tired. The first step was to put them to bed awake and let them fall asleep on their own. For Ethan on night one, this only took about 15 minutes. Ditto for Emma last night. We laid her down and she was really mad but that only lasted for about 5 mintues and then she slowly calmed down and went to sleep. Step two was in the middle of the night, not to get them up out of the bed. With Ethan, on night one, he woke up and once again it took him about 10-15 minutes to be back alseep. Last night Emma woke up at 4 and I gave her her binky and she went straight back to sleep, no crying. Then she woke up at 5:15 and didn't want her binky or to go back to sleep. At this point, I normally would have given her a bottle and she would have gone back to sleep for several more hours. I was very strong about not wanting her to wake up in the middle of the night again so I didn't get her up. It took her about 45 mintues but she did got back to sleep and sleep until about 8:30! She didn't cry the whole time, she probably cried a total of about 10 mintues and played the rest of the time but key point, she went back to sleep. We have a break through. Hopefully it will go as well tonight. Wish us luck! They are both napping now because we went to the grocery and then to McD's for lunch with Stephanie and Tyler.