Day 3

It went ok.  River woke up at 4:40 crying.  It took her 15 minutes to go back to sleep- she wasn’t very happy, and then slept for 10 minutes before waking up again and crying.  After getting her back to sleep she didn’t wake up for the day until 7:30, which wasn’t bad.

Day 4

I’m hoping last night wasn’t a fluke, because it was amazing.  She went ( Read more... )

So last night was day 2 of night weaning.  It went pretty well!  Again, I prepped River for what to expect with another rundown of “after bedtime milk goes to sleep until the sun comes up”.  She woke up at 4:00 for the first time.  She cried but seemed to understand that there was no milk (I think she may have halfheartedly signed milk once).  It ( Read more... )

River is 21.5 months, and has never been a good sleeper.  She’s always woken up in the night, but for a while now has been waking up every 2-3 hours to nurse, which is making me crazy.

I decided to do Dr. Jay Gordon’s night weaning technique, starting with step 2, since nursing to sleep wasn’t the problem, but rather just needing to nurse when she ( Read more... )