parenting..

and one of those not so fun parts....

why, you ask, am i online and posting at 2:34 in the morning???

simple, i say. i have a son who is screaming in his bed!

after about 6 weeks of calen sleeping full nights every night, he has decided that was a nice little fad, but he'd like to go back to waking up and eating, thank you very much. it started about a week ago, and all he did was wake up around 4 am every morning.

no problem. at that point he's usually been asleep for about 9 hrs. that, in my humble opinion, constitutes sleeping through the night, and he has earned the privilege of an early breakfast (as long as he's planning on going back to sleep!).

but saturday night, he decided it was time to get up after having been in bed for a scant hour (that night is a story on it's own).

sunday night, he woke up three times: 10:00, 2:30, and 4:15 - and he went to bed at 8! and had napped well! even though i knew i was shooting myself in the foot, so to speak, i fed him each time, and he went right back to sleep. but i knew i didn't want to make that a habit (again).

so tonight we are practicing the old: "you have certainly proved that you don't need to eat during the night, and you've proved you can sleep for at least 8 hrs, so don't think your crying is going to help anything" trick.

which means mommy is up at 2:30 in the morning listening to him cry - make that scream.

but he seems to be quieting.

hopefully it lasts.

good night!