Sleep Training: Take Two

For the past five days, we have been doing some sleep training at our house with Carina, otherwise known as "cry it out".  I have been putting this off for awhile and feeling like it was harder this time around because Carina is my baby.  Luckily this trusty blog serves as my memory and after looking back, we did sleep training for Samantha at this exact same time in her life and it turns out it was hard on me then too. 

I started sleeping in the basement on Saturday but I could still hear her cries and went to her after about 5-10 minutes the first few nights.  The third night as I was going to her, she stopped crying and went back to sleep and last night she slept through the night.  I tell you, as painful as it is to let her cry, it totally works and it works quickly.  

Carina has also for the most part weaned me.  Unlike Samantha who I nursed until she was 14 months old, this little lady is too busy to be bothered with breastfeeding.  I still nurse her in the mornings (and was in the middle of the night feedings) when she is sleepy.  But, if she has energy she has no interest in taking the time to eat.  With my pumping schedule and travel I've been doing with work, I should be relieved but I'm still not quite ready.  I am coming to terms with the idea that Carina is my last baby and it really makes all the transitions sad to me.  I think I'll try to keep it up for one more month.