Cry It Out III

Dear B,

I think that I have underestimated you. I thought this whole cry it out would be terrible for the first week, but you are doing very well. You have fallen asleep with less than 10 minutes of crying for every nap, except for the one you are trying to take now, which has been the only one so far, in two days, that you have protested. For most naps you have cried less than 3 minutes or not at all! The hard part is you don't sleep long enough and the program I am follwing says to let you cry for 25 minutes before getting you up from your nap if you sleep less than an hour, so you are usually crying after your nap and have only cried yourself back to sleep once so far.

Last night you went down with no crying and slept until 230 in the morning. I got up and fed you and then you slept straight through until 6. That is a good night for you, but you woke up still very tired. I wish we could get you to sleep one more hour in the morning and I think you would be much happier. I can't believe how well night 2 went for you.

Overall it has went much better than planned, but it is still breaking my heart listening to you cry. Please fall asleep baby.

Love you,

Mom