Except when I'm baking, I'm not really a "by the book" kind of gal (and that's only after learning the hard way that a teaspoon is a teaspoon, not a dash, pinch or otherwise!) and so it hasn't really been any different with child rearing. Yes, I do often seek out information from sources who know better than I do and often that means consulting a book or (gasp!) the Internet, but by and large I'm a skimmer and fill in the blanks myself. I figure with something like children it's likely to be on a case by case basis anyway, so why sweat the details?
Employing the cry it out method with the chimp has been thus. And I guess it's working. But the fact of the matter is, we (or rather I) haven't really been sticking to the rules. My baby isn't always awake when I put her down in her crib and I don't feel badly about that. Yes, it likely has meant dragging this whole process out longer than necessary, but, well, too bad for us.
Despite my lack of attention to detail, things have gotten considerably better on the sleeping front (at least for the chimp). I am still waking up expecting her to wake up crying, but she's doing pretty good now. If and when she wakes before it's time for a feeding, she sometimes cries, but often finds a way to get herself back to sleep within a few minutes and for the last few nights she has been waking only for one feeding in the middle of the night and getting a good 12 hours in the mean time.
Last night, the hubby and I went out to the movies (The Dark Knight - disappointingly boring!) and my mum came over to watch the chimp. She went to bed without her usual boob and slept through the night. I'm not complaining, but I'm not going to get used to it just yet either. What I will do is hope it lasts long enough for my body to trust that it's going to keep happening, and maybe, just maybe there will be a full night's sleep in my future too!
Employing the cry it out method with the chimp has been thus. And I guess it's working. But the fact of the matter is, we (or rather I) haven't really been sticking to the rules. My baby isn't always awake when I put her down in her crib and I don't feel badly about that. Yes, it likely has meant dragging this whole process out longer than necessary, but, well, too bad for us.
Despite my lack of attention to detail, things have gotten considerably better on the sleeping front (at least for the chimp). I am still waking up expecting her to wake up crying, but she's doing pretty good now. If and when she wakes before it's time for a feeding, she sometimes cries, but often finds a way to get herself back to sleep within a few minutes and for the last few nights she has been waking only for one feeding in the middle of the night and getting a good 12 hours in the mean time.
Last night, the hubby and I went out to the movies (The Dark Knight - disappointingly boring!) and my mum came over to watch the chimp. She went to bed without her usual boob and slept through the night. I'm not complaining, but I'm not going to get used to it just yet either. What I will do is hope it lasts long enough for my body to trust that it's going to keep happening, and maybe, just maybe there will be a full night's sleep in my future too!
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