Knock On Wood

Have you ever...Dr. Ferber... heard a baby cry?!?

I'm sooooo sorry, precious. I just listened to you cry yourself back to sleep for ten minutes. I think I cried more tears than you! I wanted so much just to scoop you up and rock you back to sleep.

He's had, no, make that us, a rough last month with sleeping. After midnight he's been waking up either every hour or every-other hour. No good. All of this is seemingly coinciding with his first two little teeth coming in. They have finally found their way out of the gum, and soon we'll see some pearly whites.

So after his 6month birthday, we decided he was old enough to start crying himself to sleep if need be. Not to mention, me, mom, is exhausted of not getting more than two hours of straight sleep! We've been sleep training the little one for about the past week. Knock on Wood. It seems to be working, at least for the last three nights; but, I don't want to jinx new-found fortune. Give it another week, and I'll pop the Perrier Jouet Fleur.

Eh, the whole time, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking, 'one day I'll be struggling to wake him up'.