Our Little Sleeping Beauty

It only took 8 months and Kimber is finally sleeping through the night in her crib. Not every night. But most nights. And it's amazing!

 

She was a good sleeper when she was a newborn. Waking up twice a night to nurse at first and then once a night as she got a little older. Usually the same time every night. She would nurse and fall right back to sleep, so I was never up longer than 30 minutes at a time. It was our routine and I was used to it.

 

In September, we moved her from the rock n play to the crib. It took about a week and we had trained her to sleep through the night in her crib. It was great!! And then in October, she got her first ear infection and everything changed. She didn't want to sleep in her crib {laying flat} and wasn't sleeping through the night. Her ear infection took 3 months {and 3 different kinds of antibiotics} to clear up - so between October and the middle of January - she slept in the swing in her room every single night. Some nights it took us 2 hours just to get her to sleep and she wouldn't stay asleep for long. Some night we were up with her in the middle of the night for hours. She wasn't crabby or crying {usually}. She just didn't want to sleep. We'd  sit with her in the lazy boy with the tv on low and hang out until she fell back to sleep.

 

After she got her next ear infection in January and was put back on antibiotics, she was a completely different sleeper. Nick decided one night to lay her in the crib to see what happened. She cried for 30 minutes and then fell asleep. And slept through the night. The next night she cried for 20 minutes. And each night was less & less until she wasn't crying at all and just falling asleep. Most nights, she sleeps through the night. Some nights, she wakes up in the middle of the night and we let her cry it out and she'll fall asleep within a short period of time. While other nights, we have to get up with her after she's cried for too long. We usually pick her up and she falls asleep on our shoulder and we can lay her back down. I guess she just needs a snuggle in the middle of the night.

 

After 8 months, we do our night time routine and lay her in the crib and she's out in 5 minutes or so. I heard rumors of these babies that you just lay in their crib and they fall asleep. And now we have one!!