Since our sweet Colin boy hasn't been sleeping as well at night, we thought we might give the Ferber method a try, to see if he could put himself to sleep. The theory behind that thinking is that if your child can fall asleep on his own, when he wakes up at night he'll self-soothe and go right back to sleep.
Sometimes Colin falls asleep on his own anyway, so we thought he'd be ready.
First we followed through with the bedtime routine. Warm bath, lotion, jammies, story time, bottle. Laid him in his crib awake, turned on his white noise, said goodnight, left the room.
Commence screaming.
I don't even think I made it the full five minutes. I went in and offered a paci. He spit it out and continued to scream. We went through this ritual two or three times, his screaming gradually getting louder and louder, before I finally picked him up and snuggled him with tears in my own eyes.
He fell asleep on Daddy in the glider a few minutes later.
Yeah, we're not ready to sleep-train just yet.
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