Imagine my surprise when I heard Matthew stir on the monitor, rolled over to take a look to see that he was definitely getting up, and then looked at my watch and saw that it was 5:08! Holy sh*t – he slept through the night!!!!!!!
Ferber says that if you want their wake up time to be 7:00, that you should just get them up for the day if they get up after 5:00. So that is what I (sort of) did. He was awake – no question about that – so I put him in bed with me to do his morning nursing and he did that without dozing off. Then we got up at 5:42!
We are both noticeably tired, but also noticeably HAPPY 🙂 I think Matthew knows what he accomplished – he is in happy, proud baby mode! I am in happy, proud mama mode!
I know we’re not fully over the hump yet – that this will still take work – but for now, I am savoring this HUGE victory!!!!
Hi, there, I’m Courtney. I never planned to stay home with my kids, but I got sucked into motherhood when my first baby came into our lives after years of infertility and multiple rounds of IVF. His brother followed closely behind, something we didn’t plan on after having such a rough road with achieving parenthood the first time around. My boys are IVF cycle twins, conceived on the same day but born two years and one day apart (they were both transferred on the same day in October, but with two years between them). My boys are the best of friends and my husband is a terrific husband, father, and most importantly… friend. He fully supported my desire to stay home (“I just wanted it to be your idea and not mine, I totally want you to stay home and raise our kids!”) and encourages me in everything I do.
I am a lover of projects, spreadsheets, fitness, healthy cooking and eating, crafts, selling my stuff on FB (HA!), and the outdoors. If I’m active, I’m pretty darn happy!
All the Sun For You 
April 10, 2012 at 6:25 am
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
April 10, 2012 at 8:32 am
Awesome! Did you end up going back to Day 2?
April 10, 2012 at 9:35 am
No! We didn’t need to do anything because he never woke up and went down without a fight too. It was amazing! If he does get up tonight (which I expect – I don’t think that we’re 100% done yet), I think we’ll do the day 2 schedule. In fact, we’ll use the day 2 schedule for his naps today. He’s already taken one nap without needing checking (at 6:54 – he was exhausted and falling asleep on his stuffy out in the living room) but his afternoon nap will likely require some work!
April 10, 2012 at 9:08 am
Hooray! So happy for you both!
April 10, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Yay! Awesome!