She's been sleeping through the night for a few nights now. She usually goes down around 9 or 10pm and sleeps straight through till 7-7:30ish. So what do I decide to do? Start sleep training. She's already got half of it down, so why not. It can't be that bad. All we have to do is fight through the crying of putting her to sleep. Then she'll sleep through the night. So tonight or lastnight or whatever it is now, we decide to put her down while she is still awake, and have her learn to put herself to sleep. Up to now, she just falls asleep on us. We don't rock her, she just happens to fall asleep while we're holding her. Well, it took about an hour, but she did go to sleep. I think it was the magic bear. We have a bear that her uncle got her for Easter that lights up and sings the lullaby song. She loves it. An hour. Thats not so bad! However, at 2am, she starts whining. I know she's not hungry. That's an entirely different cry. So I wait a bit until she gets a little louder. I get up, put her soother in, and she is quiet right away. Hmm, this isn't going to be so bad. I decide to sit on the rocking chair that's in the room rather than go back to bed just yet. She started whining again a few min later, but once I saw her and goodnight, she was quiet again. This happens a few times, and after a while, I come out into the living room and browse on MSN. I was reading about criminals on facebook. This one guy logged onto facebook in the home he was robbing and didn't logg off before he left!!!! Seriously?!?! Anyways, she was doing well, so I checked on her and she was out. ahhh. Its now 2:45 and she is down. Hmm. Not too bad, I guess, although I am a little disappointed that she didn't sleep through the night, even if she didn't need a feeding. Oh well, back into bed I crawl.

3 min later....

She starts crying again, this time in btw a whine and a real cry. So I get up, pick her up, and she still is a little cranky. I changed her diaper, and put her back to bed. All is well, for about 3 min.....So I go in and kiss her on the forhead and tell her good night. 5 min later, repeat. I came out to look on the internet and maybe blog a bit. And that brings us to 3:16am.... all is well so far. I heard one squeak a few seconds ago, so she is not completely down yet.....

Part of me is thinking 'way to mess with a good thing' because she was sleeping through the night. But I guess at 3 months old, that probably wouldn't last....well, that's what I tell myself right now...... But I know it will all be worth it in the end. The sooner she learns to soothe herself, the more full night sleeps we will get.

Hmm.... she's been quiet for a bit now.... But I think I will not tempt fate and go to bed yet. Maybe I'll just crash on the couch for a bit...