The Daily Hailey

So I may kick myself for writing about this. I don’t want to jinx it. But I think its just about time to sleep train Solly. I hope.

We’ve tried to sleep train Solly a time or two before, but as soon as we nail down a plan, he gets sick or something, and it just hasn’t been possible.

In this last week or two, he’s been pretty miserable and sick. Our nights have been challenging. He wakes up around midnight, and wails and cries and coughs and rasps and screams. We. Try. Everything. We change his diaper, try to give him milk, rock him, walk him, no dice. To use a phrase that I really hate, he just can’t even. We end up holding him until his crying relaxes a bit. But it does not STOP until we put him back down the bed. So no, we’re not leaving his sick little self to wail for hours and hours. We work HARD to calm him down, and it only sort of works. The days that this has happened, he wakes up a couple of hours later when his medicine from his midnight wakeup call has kicked in, and he’ll take a feeding. Even that feeding is about half of his usual feeding size. But its something. When you know baby is sick, you just roll with stuff like that.

We’ve been putting two and two together though the sick time, though, and realizing that he can definitely go longer between night feedings than he has been. He’s not suffering with hunger when he misses that midnight feeding. I know he’s not.

Last night, instead of his tearful wakeup at midnight, he just slept through. Until 4:45!!! Keep in mind that he goes to bed at 7:30pm. That is NINE HOURS!! And WOW did I appreciate them! I also really appreciated that Solly woke up right around Brady’s alarm so he did the feeding before heading to work. What a glorious night for me!

I think this is it. I hope so much that this is it! I think, if he wakes up in the middle of the night, and I know he took a good feeding before bed, we’re just going to wrap him up and give him a good snuggle before putting him back to bed. And I think its going to be ok! I figure our worst case scenario will be, if it doesn’t work now, for whatever reason, Brady has a few days off in a stretch coming up, and we’ll just do it then if we have to. So if the whole house is full of exhausted children, I’ll have someone to tag team with! So, if not now, then.

On the note of sleepy babies, my little boys are napping and my big girl is watching some VeggieTales while I’m reclined, blogging, and eating broccoli salad. Spring is definitely upon us, and my whole self just feels much more relaxed and hopeful for the seasons to come. I hope you’re all feeling similarly.