Sleep

Is something that was unheard of in our house until last night.

Brynleigh is almost 5 months old, and I have never gotten so little sleep for a continous amount of time like this before. I thought Logan was a bad sleeper, Brynleigh takes the cake! Now I am not talking one or two times she gets up in the night, no we are talking more like four plus times in the night, and more often then not I ended up downstairs on the couch with her sleeping in her vibrating chair. I knew I couldn't go on much longer like this because my patience was wearing very thin. Almost anything Logan did drove me nuts and the fact that Brynleigh couldn't take naps anywhere else other then my arms was highly annoying. Especially since Logan just knew the second that his siter fell asleep in my arms was the minute he could start getting into everything and I couldn't do much about it with a sleeping infant in my arms.

Well that all changed last night. I started some sleep training with her and it was the best decision ever. I am happy to say that last night I fell alseep in my bed and woke up this morning in my bed! It was a miracle. Although she did wake up four times I felt rested, possibly because she not only went back to sleep easily, but I wasn't stuck on a couch sleeping. The best part of it all, was the fact that we didn't even get to the first check in, which is five minutes after you put them to bed.

Moving on to the daytime, I was going to tackle naps, because I no longer wanted to be strapped to the couch for hours at a time. Although most times she just took catnaps, just long enough for her to feel just rested enough. Today she has taken two, yes two naps upstairs in her crib and both lasted one and a half hours! I feel like I won a gold medal!!

As we move into the later afternoon time into the evening I can't help but wonder how tonight will go. Here is hoping to a better restful night for everyone in our house.

My sleep training came from the book The Sleepeasy Solution.

Even though I was not suppose to go and check on her after she fell asleep I just couldn't help myself. This is how I found her, she has never once slept on her tummy, and she has turned herself sideways in the crib. But it works for her and that's all that matters!

Happy sleeping everyone!!