Tears

Hmm . . . some trouble posting stuff . . .

Last night we implamented the "cry it out" plan with my son. His sleep schedule was in serious conflict with ours and we decided that since he is six months old it's time for him to learn how to go to sleep on his own.

It was a painful expierence, for a number of reasons: A#1 he was in a great mood just before we put him in his crib . . . at midnight . . . and I wanted to keep playing with him. A#2 Soothing him would have been so easy; he just wanted to be held.

Being nervous first-time parents, we were nervous so we used a mirror to watch him from around the corner. That might not have been a smart choice on our part because it made it harder to resist pickin him up. I felt sad for him as I watched him flail around, sit up and flop over, and scream while his giant baby eyes searched for us.

But we toughted it out with only a few tears of our own, and after about forty minutes his sobs became whimpers as he lay face down in his crib.

The good news is that he only woke up three times during the night, and he fell back asleep after only a couple of minutes of crying. When I left for work this morning he was still sound asleep. I think he slept better last night than he has in months, so that made us feel better.

It's time to go home now to be with my wife and little baby.