Click on the photo to biggify and see her two bottom teeth!
Sophie had sort of a tough week sleep-wise this week. Most of you know that Sophie has always had a bit of a problem with falling asleep. In the "dark days" she was very hard to sooth and needed some serious rocking, white noise, bouncing, you name it to get her to stop crying. As she got older, that lessened but she still had problems falling asleep for naps and falling asleep at night. We were able to get into a routine that usually worked for us but lately (ever since I've been home and not working) it has been very difficult to get her to take her naps. So, we have tried new methods. I've done a lot of drives with her out to Chadds Ford and back (because at least she would nap in the car for an hour). I've tried napping with her, I've tried to start sleep training her to get used to her crib but while I have spent 20-40 mins in there with her singing or trying to sooth her to get used to her crib, I haven't been able to last longer than seven mins max (my earlier record was two minutes) of crying and screaming and wailing when I walk out of the room. So, a week or two ago we decided to try and put her down much earlier than usual, thinking that maybe we were just letting her go to bed too late after we missed her real sleepy window and that maybe this was affecting her naps, too. So, we put her down at 6:30pm. She went to sleep. And, then she woke up at 2am. And, was up till about 4:30. Then, she got up again around 5:30 for the day. SOOO, that didn't quite work out for us and it threw her schedule even more out of whack. We started trying to get her to sleep a little earlier but not quite as early as 6:30. And, it seemed to be working. We had some luck getting her to go to sleep around 7 or 7:30 (instead of 8:30 which is when she was going to sleep previously). She would sleep till about 6am or so which is not bad. And, the big success is that after a couple of nights of us being in the room singing to her and rocking her which she was in her co-sleeper we were getting her to fall asleep on her own. But then this week, that all changed again. For the last couple of nights, she has been freaking out when we try to put her down to sleep. Wailing at the top of her lungs no matter what we do. Bouncing, rocking, singing, nursing, massage, you name it. It's been quite tough. And, very demoralizing after our "success" of getting her to fall asleep on her on with minimal crying for a few nights. So, for now we are back to the old routines. We will give it a few days and I guess try again. We have many many infant sleep books. Ironically, we don't have time to read them. We pick up bits here and there (like getting her to bed earlier). But, I guess we'll figure it out soon. She seemed to have a pretty good day today so I can't ask for more than that... Everyday is a new adventure with our little angel girl!!
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