She wasn't happy about it, but she didn't get fed between 7pm last night and 6.15am this morning. What made me realise she could do it was that when she bit me at bedtime and I stopped feeding her, she cried and screamed for a couple of minutes, and then just stopped! So later on when she cried really hard, I waited it out and sure enough, it never lasted more than 5 minutes. And sometimes Bill did the comforting - which he's very good at. The later part of the night, she didn't even cry very much - mostly just fussing and grizzling and restlessness. That in itself was sufficient to keep us awake for a very large portion of the night, so I'm pretty wrecked this morning and have to go to work, but nevertheless I feel we are making progress in the right direction! Will have to see if I can manage a sneaky nap somewhere in the day.
Actually, during the early hours of the morning when she was just rolling around and grumbling occasionally but it went on and on and on ..... I woke Bill and told him I was losing the will to live, and he sent me into the spare room and took over :-)
And we didn't resort to the Calpol ;-)
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Stick with it, you need your sleeep and she's big enough to work out that she isn't getting night long snacks any longer.... ithink it took Becca 3 nights then I woke up in a panic the next mornng thinking something was dredfully wrong with her cos she hadn't woken me all night.... can't win can you??
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