Got Sleep?

Shortly after Catherine turned four months old, she started waking up a lot during the night - like 5-6 times sometimes.  She had previously been sleeping through the night, so this was a big problem, especially because it wasn't like she would just go right back to sleep.  We'd have to pat her on the back for ages - sometimes as long as an hour - before she'd stay asleep for any length of time.  Annoying to say the least.

So we decided to "sleep train" her like we did Daniel, using the Ferber method (basically letting her learn to fall asleep on her own with no patting/rocking by allowing her to cry, comforting her at different intervals).  With Daniel, he cried for an hour and forty-five minutes the first night and continued to cry a significant amount of time for about a week, finally learning to fall asleep with no crying on night #12.  Not fun.  So we were prepared for Catherine.  We waited until things were 'stable' in our lives and prepped for long hours of crying.  We started the sleep training about a week and a half ago.  She cried 15 minutes the first night, and since then she's been rock solid, crying maybe 1-2 minutes, if at all, and only waking once per night to eat.  So wonderful!

Crazy to see the differences between the two kids.