Sleeping Update, part 1

Last night was crazy.

I put him down last night at 7:35. I was shocked for 10 whole minutes because there was NO CRYING.... I knew it was too good to last.

Starting at about 7:45 he cried off and on (sometimes short lulls where he was obviously awake, other times it was longer stretches--never more than about 20 minutes--where he must have drifted off only to wake up and scream). It was so sad. Anyway, this went on for 3 and a half hours! Yeah. It was after 11:00 when I finally got him up, fed him, and rocked him to sleep. I was worried that he would have a really hard night after that, but it was pretty typical, waking up about 2 more times.

Tonight so far:

He fell asleep around 6:00, and woke after 7:00 sometime, so obviously I couldn't put him to bed as early as last night, or I would be, well just dumb, trying to put a fully awake baby in his crib. So I let him play, we read a couple of books, changed his diaper, put on jammies, rocked him and sung him the standard 3 songs I sing each night (poor kid, has to grow up listening to me sing :) He fussed quite a bit while I was singing to him, so frankly I was just trying to brace myself. Especially because the book that I read about how to do the sleep routine said that the second night is always the worst... Oh dear, worse than last night? So anyway, I put him in bed about 8:50. He started to cry about 8:55. I put in While You Were Sleeping (because Trent's gone, so I might as well take advantage of the opportunity to watch one of my favorite girly movies), and then Trent called from Pittsburg and I talked to him while the baby cried.

Now it's 9:25, and I'm pretty sure he's been quiet for the last 10 or 15 minutes. I don't want to get my hopes up that he's just out for the night, but the quiet is nice. I want to go check on him, but I'm afraid he's still awake and will start screaming as soon as I go back there... I'll wait a few more minutes then check. But so far tonight is better than last night, not worse. I'll keep you posted.