TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW!

I think he's got it... by george I think he's got it! Two nights in a row now Rogan has slept through the night. He's going to bed earlier than we ideally would want, but it's so are to keep a sleepy baby awake and happy. So he has been going to sleep between 7 and 7:30... we'd like to push it to 8 is possible. Up until Friday, Rogan would wake up, cry, and we would feed him. This is exactly what he wanted, so he would eat for 10 mins (if that) and then go right back to sleep. Then he would wake up at 5 again, cry, and we would move him to the swing... he would be rocked back to sleep and stay there until at least 6.

At his 6 month checkup, we told the doc that he is still not sleeping through the night... I explained his schedule, and he told us what we already knew. Rogan does NOT need to eat in the middle of the night! All people wake up 2-3 times a night, but we roll over and go right back to sleep. Rogan has to learn that when he wakes up, he's safe in his crib, and he needs to roll over and go back to bed. We started that night. No more food.

Each night got persistantly better... we could tell he was making progress, so we stuck with it. There was never a night where he was crying for a long time, and we did go in, patted him on the back, turned his bedtime music on, did what we could to soothe him, we just didn't give him a bottle.

Well the past 2 nights he's slept uniterupted until 5:45am! And even when he wakes up in the morning, he just starts cooing and talking to himself and has a big smile when we come get him. YESS!! NO CRYING! I think he might sleep even longer this weekend, cause I think he can hear when our alarms start going off and that wakes him up.

So excited. Why didn't we do this sooner! Ryan and I are really enjoying our new found sleep. Even though I woke up at 3am last night out of habit, and didnt go back to sleep until 4am... I'm so proud of my little man!

... of course now I've jinxed it, and he'll be up 12 times tonight.