Since "teaching" Isabella to go to sleep, we have had much success! 6 of the 7 nights she has gone pretty much right to sleep and slept through the night. She has taken to this whole thing so well, and I feel so proud of her. It wasn't what I expected at all. Now, I'm no fool. I'm sure that there will be some rough nights in the future with teething and illness, but I really feel like we are on to something good.
And through this I have learned an important Mommy lesson: I probably caused more of her sleeping problems than she did. I loved rocking her to sleep and I miss that so much that I've even cried over it. I know: I'm pathetic. But she's my baby. Every now and then I rock her when she wakes up from a nap, just so that we can have that Mommy-Baby time. Also, I would jump so soon after she started to cry, that I never gave her chance to fix things on her own. Now, I know that she is capable of much more than I gave her credit for- which makes me happy and sad all at the same time. Happy that she is learning to be a self-sufficient sleeper, but sad that she doesn't need me :(
And now as I spy on her with the help of the video monitor, I hope that this posting does not jinx me for tonight.
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