So about two weeks ago, I decided that I was going to make a good faith effort to sleep train the Boss. I purchased The Peaceful Sleeper’s 4-24 month sleep training program. It was going well. We made it all the way to day three before we had to take a break due to the Boss being unwell. He had a pretty high fever and it just made more sense to give him all the love and snuggles he needed to get through whatever little virus he was fighting. He has been feeling better, so we restarted.
I’m not going to lie – I’m not a fan of sleep training, but I’m even less of a fan of myself and my son not sleeping well through the night. So I made the hard choice to restart and give it the two weeks that are suggested. Full disclosure – our first time around, I tried the modified cry it out form of sleep training and I learned very quickly that it was not for us. With that particular version, I’m supposed to do multiple checks after certain amounts of time but that really wasn’t working for us. After reading all of the material she provides, I found myself coming to the hard truth that my child needs a full cry it out method which is something I never thought I would do.
I’m writing this during night 3 because I can’t sleep. I’m proud of the Boss so far in his sleep endeavors. On night 1 he fell asleep with 4 minutes left in the 1-hour timer. Night 2 he had 7 minutes left in the timer, and last night 11 minutes.
In the moment of writing this I am wide awake. I started sleep training because I wanted to get my kid sleeping so that I could sleep (again). Go figure – on the night my kid has his best sleep night so far, I don’t sleep at all. Today is my first day back at work after my little birthday staycation and I have not slept at all. It’ll be interesting to see how today goes. Hopefully I can get at least a couple hours before my day has to start officially. We shall see…
Xoxo,
Ash, RN