I am having a tough time getting Baby Bear to console himself. It has become quite the task to put him to bed at night and I have a feeling it is only going to get worse. Every night we swaddle and feed Baby Bear and he goes down to bed fine. We are generally in the middle of our "adult dinner" and he starts whaling! This is about 1 hour after we initially put him down. It takes us from 5 minutes to 1.5 hours get him back down for good. I'm thinking that his waking could be an ear issue or a just not tired issue.
We tried letting him Cry It Out (CIO) a few nights ago and he cried for 17 minutes then went to sleep. I think 17 minutes is pretty good since theoretically he is then supposed to taper down every night until it is just a few minute deal to calm down. Well, we tried it the following night and it was a 1 hour struggle to get him down. That was CIO for 20 minutes, feeding another bottle and rocking for at least 15 minutes to make sure he was sound asleep.
We really should have done this months ago, but I guess this is the second child syndrome. You know, the one where you just do what works and deal with the repercussions later? Ugh! This is so painful to deal with.
I have decided that CIO is not for him. It may have worked if he were 4 months old, but now he can just stand in his crib and go ballistic, which totally breaks my heart. So I think we must try that inching away tactic so he has the comfort of me in the room, but eventually doesn't need me there to fall asleep. We are going totally "Supernanny" with this decision. I'm going to wait until after vacation so we can really put a good effort into it. We shall see...
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