Our Daenerys is sixteen months old! Life turns very busy with a little one. Our new adventure is sleep training because she still gets up an average of three times per night. I bought a book by the Sleep Lady called Good Night, Sleep Tight and it sounds more gentle than a straight cry it out method. I still feel uneasy about letting her cry at all over sleep though, so it'll be tough. We had been doing story time in the living room and then letting her play with one of our phones until she would fall asleep. Then we'd carefully move her into the nursery and into the crib. All of this was the opposite of what the Sleep Lady recommends. We had tried to move our stories into the nursery once before, but she was fussy. We're trying it again. This was our schedule today:
7:15-Wake up. Get dressed, play
9:00-Breakfast, more playing
11:00-Nurse, settle in for a nap.
11:30-1:45-Nap
1:45-2:30-Late lunch, nurse
2:30-5:30-Playing, cuddling
5:30-6:00-Dinner (picky night, didn't eat much)
6:00-6:20-Prep for bath
6:20-7:00-Bath time and dry off, pajamas
7:00-7:25-Story, nurse, sleep (She took her pacifier out mid-story to nurse then fell asleep eating. The Sleep Lady says to put her into the crib drowsy but awake, so tonight we didn't quite get there. Tomorrow our bedtime routine might need to start a little earlier.We tried to introduce her soft lamb as a lovey, but she wasn't having it.)
The main point of the blog for a while will be to document how this sleep training goes.
