*Thanks to Dan, a new dad here at Graco, for contributing this post!*
Let him cry and the tears will run down both of your faces.
Getting baby to sleep through the night is no easy task. You should know that our baby is pretty close to being perfect in the sense that he is very easy to take care of…. Except for sleeping through the night.
Poor little guy still gets up to eat, every morning around 3am. We feed him, bathe him, tuck him in, still every night we have broken sleep. Four days ago we started to do as the doctor recommended, we let him cry. Supposedly, babies will cry and then fall asleep. Over the course of a few days their little bodies get used to waiting to eat and they sleep through the night.
Well, after doing this for 4 nights in a row and sleeping only a hand full of hours, we are the ones who are crying. While this method may work for some, it isn’t for us. Not only did this method strike out, we are now more tired than we were before.
Parental instinct is telling me that he’s not ready yet… and neither are we.
If anyone out there has any ideas on how to get our baby to sleep sound through the night, we’re all tears (pun intended).
-DM
