Zero. That’s how many times Hayes woke up between 8PM and 6AM. None. Zip. I know, it’s crazy. Even more crazy is that it never got that bad. In fact, the first night he went without food and only woke up twice. By Sunday night he only awoke once at 3:45Am and was bacl to sleep in 15 minutes.
Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think it would be so easy to get HBomb to sleep through the night. Better still are the other side effects of his new sleep patterns: he eats more less often and he take longer naps without needing the 10 minutes of rocking that he used to. And you know what, I’m not even afraid of jinxing it. Yes, the Ferber Method works, and once horrible sleeping H is living proff. Thank you Dr Ferber!
Grace says:
May 31st, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Halleluia! Another set of parents can sleep through the night. Isn’t it the greatest yet weirdest feeling to sleep more than 3 hours at a stretch? Congrats on getting your little one to sleep better.
Madeleine says:
May 31st, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Yay for Hayes! Yay for you! Yay for sleep! I’m so glad I didn’t get the chance to commiserate by telling you our horror stories. Suffice to say not every child is ferberize-able. Or we waited too long to try (though really only a month longer). Or the stars were wrong.
Matthew says:
May 31st, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Now you can start yet another business - Baby Sleep Consultant! There’s gotta be a market for that right? I mean, if people will pay thousands of dollars to make sure their kid gets into the right pre-school, then imagine what they’d pay if you could link more sleep with an Ivy League Education!
Congratulations - enjoy your much-deserved rest.
Jennifer says:
June 1st, 2005 at 7:57 am
So glad to hear you got a full nights sleep. Hayes has come a long way! As for me, my 13 month old is starting to wake up now and then. After months of sleep I am now starting over again with the groggy 3am waking.
mrscrumley says:
June 1st, 2005 at 9:12 am
Sleep is wonderful! Sleeping through the night is priceless. Congratulations for toughing it out. Your sleep (and Haye’s) is well deserved.
BIYF says:
June 1st, 2005 at 1:10 pm
Congrats! Now, you just need to instill in young HBomb the importance of The Circle of Trust.
Not-For-Profit-Dad says:
June 1st, 2005 at 8:58 pm
Sleep!!! Hmmmm. [drool]
David says:
June 2nd, 2005 at 5:45 am
SHHH!!!!!!!
Don’t say anything!!! You’ll ruin the good luck.
Plus infants only do that to mess with our heads.
Jason says:
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:29 am
Congrats!
It is wonderful when they sleep the night through
Redhead Mommy says:
June 6th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Oh, I’m so glad for you! Our boy has been sleeping through the night since about seven weeks (don’t scowl at me, we did On Becoming Baby Wise, yet another method that Sear’s fans hate). But about a month ago, he started waking up at 4am (growth spurt, it turns out), but I was reminded of that first month of hellish sleep deprivation. Glad Hayes is doing better!