Slept through the night!!!

Elin has been pretty good about sleeping at night. She would just wake to eat and go back down to sleep.

Last night she slept from 7:30pm to 6:30am. I felt like a new person. She really is a great baby.

I have been trying really hard with her to do the Babywise techinque with her. Caylin was such a hard baby in the sleeping department. it was more my fault than anything. I would always tend to her and let her sleep on me. It worked fine with Ivan but with Caylin I had Ivan to take care of and he would wake her up early from naps. She never learned to fall asleep by herself. She is still a hard one to go to sleep.

I have been bound and determined to teach Elin how to fall asleep by herself. I think we are there. Today I saw she was tired, it had been about 2 hours since she ate, I swaddled her bottom half put her in the crib, gave her a kiss and walked out of the room. After about 8 minutes of off and on crying she was asleep. She did it, she put herself to sleep!!!!! She did it again tonight. It is so rewarding to know she can do it and I can learn a new way to parent a newborn.

I definitely have my tendency to want to nurse her to sleep and hold her during naps, but I am trying hard not to do that.