Ashtyn however slept well from the beginning and even started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. We would lay her down awake and she would coo herself to sleep, and wake up about 9-10 hours later, happy. And then...we moved.
When Ash was 8 months old we moved, and suddenly she decided she didn't like sleeping in her crib. She would wake up and cry, Trey would rock her back to sleep. She wouldn't lay back down in her crib. After fighting this for about a month, we finally gave up and put her in our bed. (SIGH)
A couple weeks ago when we went for her check-up, the doctor told us we really should let her "cry it out." We decided we would wait until she was over her ear infection...
It happened a few nights ago...we put Ash to bed like normal. She would usually wake up about 2 hours later and cry and we would put her in our bed for the rest of the night. But this particular night she didn't cry 2 hours later. Trey and I went to sleep and at about 2:00AM, still no Ash... At 4:00AM I asked Trey to peek in and check on her. He came back and said "she's still asleep."
Well we got really suspicious when we didn't hear her at her usual wake time of 8:00AM. Trey went in and found her happy and awake, standing in her crib! He then came back in our room and we realized that the monitor in our room was on the wrong channel. So...we had survived a night of "crying it out" mainly because we couldn't hear her! Although, I don't think she cried that much because she obviously went back to sleep.
So, there it is...that's how we won. Every night since, we just turn down the monitor in our room so we can hear if something is REALLY wrong. She may fuss for a minute or two, but she has been going back to sleep on her own! SUCCESS!!
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