Judegirl
01-11-2006, 09:29 PM
It's been a week and my wonderful, darling, ridiculously energetic daughter - who once went 28 straight hours without a wink of sleep and without so much as a bout of fussiness - .................................................. .....................
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is SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!
WOO BLOODY HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For anyone it may help, here's what happened:
Last Wednesday I found myself quite suddenly convinced that she was old enough to go to sleep without her bottle. She was still getting one for naps and bedtime. So I told her we needed to have a talk, LOL. I explained that she's a big kid now and didn't need her bottle to sleep, etc etc...instead, I told her, what we were going to do from now on was drink her milk from a big-kid cup (which she uses during the day) while we read bedtime stories, but then once we brush her teeth, there would be no more milk. (I kept repeating the phrase "we're going to rock with no milk" since that's the big association for her.) I mentioned it several more times that evening.
So that's what we did. It was a little sad and pretty adorable...she had no idea how to sleep without a bottle in her mouth and she kept saying "No milk?" And I'd say "No, honey, no milk." And she'd say "Big kid now? No milk??"
But I got her to sleep without a bottle or a breast for the very first time in her little life except when she had a 103-degree fever. No tears, no multi-hour saga...just the two of us doing a lot of repeating "No milk - you can do it" to each other...LOL!
And once she figured out she could do that, she either stopped waking for milk or she put herself back to sleep. It's been a week. No bottles, no night-wakings...and she was at 3-5 wakings a night!
Please cross your fingers that this keeps up...we haven't been this well-rested in nearly three years.
AND...having been sleeping on the floor for the past 4 months and a futon for years before that, dh and I are buying a bed!!!!!!
Thanks for listening! As some of you know, it's been a long, long road...
:)
Happy happy Jude
.................................................. ................
is SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!
WOO BLOODY HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For anyone it may help, here's what happened:
Last Wednesday I found myself quite suddenly convinced that she was old enough to go to sleep without her bottle. She was still getting one for naps and bedtime. So I told her we needed to have a talk, LOL. I explained that she's a big kid now and didn't need her bottle to sleep, etc etc...instead, I told her, what we were going to do from now on was drink her milk from a big-kid cup (which she uses during the day) while we read bedtime stories, but then once we brush her teeth, there would be no more milk. (I kept repeating the phrase "we're going to rock with no milk" since that's the big association for her.) I mentioned it several more times that evening.
So that's what we did. It was a little sad and pretty adorable...she had no idea how to sleep without a bottle in her mouth and she kept saying "No milk?" And I'd say "No, honey, no milk." And she'd say "Big kid now? No milk??"
But I got her to sleep without a bottle or a breast for the very first time in her little life except when she had a 103-degree fever. No tears, no multi-hour saga...just the two of us doing a lot of repeating "No milk - you can do it" to each other...LOL!
And once she figured out she could do that, she either stopped waking for milk or she put herself back to sleep. It's been a week. No bottles, no night-wakings...and she was at 3-5 wakings a night!
Please cross your fingers that this keeps up...we haven't been this well-rested in nearly three years.
AND...having been sleeping on the floor for the past 4 months and a futon for years before that, dh and I are buying a bed!!!!!!
Thanks for listening! As some of you know, it's been a long, long road...
:)
Happy happy Jude