sleep

Today something amazing happened that has never happened before. Finley climbed onto our bed, tucked himself in under the covers, read himself a book and then fell asleep All By Himself with the book left open on his chest.

I was busy in the kitchen and was planning on going in to do all that for him, but he beat me to it! I think having had the experience of dealing with a challenging sleeper over the last two years (although the first year was so much more difficult than the second) makes this moment all the more sweeter.

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I guess we are quite lucky that Finley wakes up some time between 6.30 and 7.00 in the morning. Sometimes he even sleeps in until 7.30. The other parents we know tell us that they get woken up between 5.00 and 6.00am, some even before that!

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A few months ago Mandy posted about Finley and his sleep habits, how we were acquiring a copy of Elizabeth Pantley's No-Cry Sleep solution. We acquired the book, we started a routine, things improved a bit; when I say improved I mean we went from waking every hour to waking every two hours. Everything got a bit muddled when we went to Durban last month. I went for a week, and Mandy and Finley stayed on for another two weeks. Finley is almost 10 months old now, and crawling, drooling, and babbling like a mad man.

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Its been a while since my last entry, mainly because the No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley arrived last Monday and I have spent the last week and a bit reading through it and establishing our sleep plan for Fin. It is a gradual process but I think we are moving in the right direction. Finley now sleeps for 3 hours straight between 11pm and 2am so getting some deep sleep definately helps!

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A couple months ago Finley was waking every 2 hours at night. After doing lots of research about babies and sleep it was clear that the two schools of thought were 'cry it out' or 'learn to live with it'. Since I wasn't willing to do the first method and tired days and a grumpy mum meant I wasn't willing to learn to live with it either, I researched further until I came across this book by Elizabeth Pantley - The No-Cry Sleep Solution.

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