The Tuesday after August long weekend, Blake had a rough night. He woke up numerous times through out the night scared and had trouble going back to sleep. This went on, off and on, until last week ... We were very distraught!! We also felt so bad for Blake, because he was truly very scared and it broke our hearts. He's always been an excellent sleeper, even before we sleep trained him at 4 months. So having to go into his room during the night, sometimes lay with him, sometimes bring him into our bed was driving us CRAZY! The other odd thing was that he NEVER wanted us to lay with him nor did he ever want to climb into our bed. At times when he's been sick we've tried to do one or both, just to give us a break and he wouldn't! But after some problem solving and getting advice and information from various sources our boy is an AWESOME sleeper once again :) Phew! After talking to a few parents and friends, I was very surprised at how many people sleep with their children or have to stay in their kids rooms until their children are asleep, etc, etc. I seriously don't know how those parents do it ... kudos to them, cause we could never handle it!! We like to put our kids to bed awake, close the door and they go to sleep, sleep for at least 12 hours and stay in their beds!!!! We also stopped putting Blake for a nap a few months ago. He would take forever to fall asleep at night if he had an afternoon nap. So now he's going to sleep quite early (between 6:30 and 7 pm) and gets up between 7 and 7:30 am. Now we have one more notch on our belts ... closer to becoming sleep experts?! LMAO!!! NOT ... I'm sure there will be many more interesting bedtime/night time "encounters" in our lives ;)
Wishing you all a good night's rest too :)
Tracy
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