Jack and Sam

I didn't get it on video, but right before this I caught Jack take the ball from Sam's mouth, put it in his own, and then give it back to her. EEEWWW. At least we know his immune system is good.

He is officially crawling

Nap Time

My Sleeping Woes

Thanks for all your advice ladies. I took a break from my "cry it out " experiment because I was loosing my mind. I am realizing as much as I wanted to parent with my brain, my heart couldn't take it. I was a wreck from leaving him to cry. Trev was coming home to an emotionally frazelled woman. (That's right...frazelled)

This week has been much better. The last two days he has had a 2 hour afternoon nap! I took a lot of your ideas and decided to let him cry for 6 minutes (because that seemed to be the point of no return) and then rock him to sooth him, then put him back down awake and repeat. This evening I only had to rock him twice. The 3rd time I layed him down he went "WAAA", and was quiet. I had to check on him because I thought he had died or something. Sure enough, he had decided it wasn't worth the effort and gone to sleep. Yay! Hopefully we will have some long term sucess. Thanks again for all your encouragment.

My Napping Woes

So as cute as our little boy is, we have a problem. During the day he won't go to sleep on his own. It is my fault really. I started nursing him to sleep at night and now I have this thirsty little monster to deal with. You would think I would learn. I did the same thing with Brook. It starts as a survival method. It is 3 am and I need to sleep so before I even think about it I just feed the baby to make him quiet. I used to be cute. I would sit and rock him for five minutes and watch him peacefully drift off in my arms. Now he is 2 months old, 15 lbs and screams to be fed or carried every time he gets tired. During the night he is fine. From 9pm to 9am he sleeps 4-5 hours at a time, eats and goes back to sleep no problem.

So this week I decided enough was enough. I wasn't going to be a human soother / swing any longer! I get him all clean, and wrapped and I put him in bed to "learn to fall asleep". Which has turned out to be 4 days of screaming. The boy can scream forever! We did this with Brook at the same age and she gave up after 12 minutes, went to sleep and never turned back. Jack must be setting records. I am not sure I can take much more of this. My nerves are raw from listening to him cry. If he does fall asleep he wakes up 10 minutes later and starts it all over again. I have searched the internet and the library and I am pretty sure I am doing all I can do for him. AAAHHH. Pray that Jack learns to sleep because either my arms are going to fall off from carrying him or I am going to loose my mind from listening to him cry.

Anyone have any advice? I am trying to do the "babywise" method as much as possible, but letting him cry for 1/2 the day for the last 4 days doesn't seem right. What am I missing?

Jack at 4 weeks

Jack was half asleep when I taped this, so just remember his eyes usually point the same direction :)