All that said, I know that Holden needs to learn how to sleep in his own room in his crib. Tonight, after his first dinner, I changed Holden, swaddled him and rocked him just to the brink of sleep. I placed him in his crib and walked out of the room. After about 5 minutes he started crying, so I went back in, picked him up and rocked him back to the brink of sleep and again placed him in his crib. I repeated this once more, but this most recent time he cried - - he put himself back to sleep!!!
I know this is just one night, and that Nathan and I will probably have to do this multiple times before it becomes habit, but I am pretty darn excited. Long stretches of sleep at night in our future - - count me in!
Way to go Meredith! That is so huge! I'm so proud of you guys! I want to meet Holden SOOOO bad! We were out of town when he was born but now we need to meet him! He is sooo cute! Don't worry about the pacifier. I know a lot of premies that had soothies and still breast fed. It might just take him a little bit to realize that one gives food and the other doesn't. :-) I hope your rashes clear up soon. I'm glad to hear you all are doing great!
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