Sleep Training: Night 7

Naps: After speaking with daycare, I gave them the go-ahead to let Abigail sleep if she's tired around 3pm. It seems she wakes up around 1:15ish from her nap & then is tired again around 3-3:30 but we're not allowing her to nap. As a result, she's not getting enough nap time in. So, we'll try the 3:00 hour nap & see if it messes her up at night or not. Hopefully not!

Routine: We did our routine last night just before 8pm. Abby snuck a nap in on the way home from swimming lessons at 6:40 - 7pm! Little stinker! So she wasn't very sleepy when bedtime rolled around. Eventually though, we got her to sleep. Persistence pays off!

Sleep & Night Wakings: This was the best night since we started the sleep training! She only woke up 3 times last night & one of those times I didn't have to go in her room at all! She put herself back to sleep! And at her 1am waking, I nursed her, put her down & she was still awake & fussing. I just left her in her room to figure it out herself & she did! Within 5 minutes she was back asleep! Such a good girl! She went to bed at 8:40, woke up at 12:50, 4:00am & then woke up at 5am-ish but just rolled over, "crawled" to her pacifier, picked it up, put it in her mouth & went back to sleep!!!! I watched all this on the monitor & was so proud of her! Then she woke up for real at 6am.

The positives:

• She woke up 1/2 the amount of times she has been over the past few nights!
• Put herself back to sleep twice!
• Learned how to help herself with the pacifier.
• Only once did I pick her up last night & that was just to nurse her at 12:50am. I should probably phase this feeding out eventually.

Numbers:
Total hours of nap time: 3.5 hours
Total hours of night sleep: 9 hours
Grand total sleep: ~12.5 hours