Crib Chilin'

Yesterday was the first night that E slept in her crib (for most of the night). She did much better than I thought she would. I don't think she even noticed that she had graduated to a much larger bed area that wasn't "closed" (compared to her bassinet) or that she was in a different room than us. She slept from about 8:30 pm to about 6pm... of which then she awoke, light starting to come through the window and she didn't want to sleep anymore. So then she came to our bed... where she still didn't sleep (and kept us up instead). Oh well. Not bad for the first night I'd say.

Hopefully over the next month she'll make the connection that her crib is for sleeping and napping. And by then, we'll hopefully have figured out "the way" to feed her and get her back into her crib without her waking up. Last night, we tried to change her diaper and feed her in her room... and then the plan was to have Ian put her back to bed. We were using the baby monitor to hear if she was awake, which worked find. Then Ian would take her to the other room to change her. Then I would follow and feed her... all in her own room. Then I was to "call" to Ian through the monitor on the other side of the room ,without waking E up, so that he could get back up (I know, hard awakening) and take her to put her to sleep. That didn't work. Ok, you're probably thinking.. "Why don't you (gilda) just put her down, if you're alerady up?" Well the short answers is because it's hard to get up with her (it takes both hands), discard of the boppy (without tripping on it or soemthing) and get her down all without waking her up ... on top of the fact that if she awakes (which is half the time), having daddy there instead of mommy-food-source helps in the going back to sleep process. So back to my story, ... so, both times when I tried to awaken Ian from across our apartment through the montior with no luck, I ended up having to get up off the futon ,where I was feeding E , while holding her up on the boppy (mind you, she was still attached and "eating") and walk down the hall to the other bedroom and physically get Ian up (usually with my foot, since my hands were occupied holding up E and the boppy).

Therefore, I conclude, it is time to formulate a new plan .. and tonight, hopefully, our new plan will work. We're aiming that by the time E turns 6 months old, she'll be sleeping exclusively in her crib and enjoying it too. That gives us just over a month to work out all the kinks and for her to get used to her new slightly more lit (from lights outside), slightly noiseier (but it's a good thing to be learn, to sleep with a little noise), room of her own. We'll see!