Tonight (Friday) begins the "Tough love - mama's going to let you cry it out until you sleep through the night" saga. I've read this book and this book, and discarded this book and this book as retardedly hokey.
I know that she won't remember this, and this will hurt me more than her, but I have to sleep, people. Bean wakes not because she is hungry, but because she's looking for a 98.6 degree pacifier. She also has a hard time falling asleep without a binky in her mouth.
So the binky's gone at naptime and nighttime - cold turkey. This weekend and the next week (God help me if it's longer) will be hard, but she's gotta learn to fall asleep with no binky and learn to stay asleep at night.
When she wakes up in the middle of the night, I'm not going to pick her up and nurse her. She only nurses for five minutes anyway, and with my milk supply these days, that can't be any more than a few teaspoons. She's going to have to cry it out for progressively longer periods of time until she figures out that it's just not worth her while to wake up several times a night.
Wish me strength.
Posted by Jen at October 6, 2006 8:54 PM