I'm so proud of my big/lil boy. He has gone to sleep by himself for the past three nights. I didn't take the traditional route of teaching CJ how to self soothe when it came to sleeping...which I later paid for. On the average night I would have to rock my baby to sleep..sometimes that would take up to an hour! Of course we had established a bedtime routine but that finally element of rocking him to sleep could really lead to rocking myself to sleep.I love playing around with CJ during the day, but when he goes to bed, that is my time. That is mommy's time to do..whatever lol.
So the other night, I read him a story, laid him down and rubbed his back for about 5 minutes, kissed his cheek and left the room. He cried..actually he screamed and cursed me out baby style. Then I heard his cries start to drift. I checked on him 20 minutes later and my lil boy was knocked out holding tight to his pooh bear of course! SO CUTE!
The next night I tried the same thing. This time he simply whined and then fell asleep. Tonight he didn't even whine!! SUCCESS! Wow..I really should have tried doing this awhile ago haha. I have to give my boy more credit and faith. He is so smart and capable...he just pushes my limits, as most kids do. So now, mommy gets so time to blog! I'm sure I will miss rocking him to sleep, but tonight I am simply proud of CJ's accomplishment.
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