JenniferTenney

So, I have a new mission. For 11 months I have been rocking Dakota to sleep and it usually takes me between 1 hr and 2 hrs to get her to sleep at night! If I put her down before she is fully asleep, she pops right back up and starts crying. She is also still waking up 2x in the middle of the night. More than half of the time she stays asleep and will go right back in her crib, but lately more and more, she again, pops right back up and it takes me up to an hour in the middle of the night to get her back into her crib! I work full time and in the middle of the night I want to cry after I have been up for more than an hour. The only thing that keeps me calm is the thought of the angels and how lucky I am to be up with Dakota. But I don't think it is good for Dakota either ... she needs to learn to self soothe. But I don't want to use the Ferber method ... I think it is too late for that ... I think she would cry for hours and hours. So I think I will try the baby whisperer's pick up, put down method. I tried last night in the middle of the night for the first time and it took me a whole hour of her crying to get her to fall asleep in her crib (not in my arms), with me rubbing her back. Ugh! This was at 3am and my husband heard us and woke up for the day at 3am. I feel kind of bad about that (but also not ... he doesn't share the middle of the night feedings like he should and why didn't he try to go back to sleep at 4:30 am like a normal person once she was back to sleep?). So ... I think it's going to be hard work. But I want my little girl to be self-sufficient and a good person ... so I am going to try it. Wish me luck!!! (Here's to a sleepless week!)