Bye-Bye Sleepless Nights!

So maybe I am totally jumping the gun but any mother knows the significance of the first signs of finally getting a full nights rest. Sleeping through the night for Steve and I occurred never for the first three months then maybe once or twice a month after that. Most nights we were stumbling out of bed three times a night for maybe 20 minutes at a time. So yes, this is only 1 hour of lost sleep, which in comparison to the first month is nothing, but its still a very disruptive sleep pattern, not great for full mental functionality the following day. Ok so here I am complaining but we all go through it and we all survive and manage to get through the day just fine.

For us, while we couldn't wait for the day for sleepless nights to be a thing of the past we were not doing the "ferber method" ways to get Jack to sleep. We did try one night a few months back. We had heard both sides, people that have done it with great success and those that didn't bother to try. So we let him scream and cry for 10 minutes (recommended is 20 minutes for it to actually work) in his crib, and yea 10 minutes really isn't a long time but with an unhappy baby it feels like an eternity. Supposedly 20 minutes is enough time for the baby to poop themselves out and fall asleep. Well for us when the 10 minutes was up Steve went in to get him. Steve walked back into our room and said, never again. Our poop guy was standing in his crib crying and shaking, we felt horrible and decided then that the ferber method was not for us. We couldn't bear to see him with this horrified face, as though we were abandoning him. We would stick it out until he was ready to just sleep through by himself. So we waited and waited. Things slowly got better, it went from 3 times a night to 2 then only once a night, and here and there we'd get a random full nights sleep.

As of this past Saturday, Jack has slept through the night for a full week!! YAY!!! We are obviously thrilled but still not convinced that this is it, though it would be great. Needless to say it has been a wonderful feeling to sleep through the night, we just feel so much better rested in the morning and the brain feels a whole lot less foggy. This whole thing benefits Jack too of course. We have such a great routine at this point, two 1-2 hour naps during the day and a full nights sleep makes for a much happier baby. Do keep the fingers crossed that we make this the norm from this point on.... hell it only took us 10 months to get here.