Finally!

For the past two months we have been working really hard on Lucas's sleep habits. Last night, for the first time in his life, we put Lucas to bed and didn't see him again until the morning, 11 hours later. He actually woke up three times, but put himself back to sleep before we went into his room.

Thank goodness. This was Lucas's best night of sleep ever, but it was followed by his worst night. The night before last Jeff and I were sitting by his bed for nearly three hours trying to comfort him back to sleep. I told Jeff that if he didn't sleep well last night that I was just going to put him in the sling and wear him until he turned five and doesn't want to be near me anymore. I say this because we determined earlier in the week that he wasn't hungry at night, he just wanted mommy. After this night I sent a desperate note to our doctor asking him what to try next. He told us to wait five minutes before going into his room to give him a chance to soothe himself back to sleep. For the past two months we had gone in there immediately because we wanted him to know that we were there for him. Every baby is different and apparently all this did for Lucas was wake him up more and make him mad when we left the room.

My friend warned me this morning that sometimes you take two steps forward and one step back, so I'll try not to get disappointed if tonight doesn't go as well, but we are definitely celebrating this little victory at our house this morning!!! Yay Lucas!!