Last week, we decided to get Cade a toddler bed, seeing he will be two next week and we will need the crib for the baby in the spring. What a challenge. First we just put him in his crib and he could scale that in 3 seconds! Out he would run screaming his head off every 2 hours at night. SOMETHING had to change, hence the toddler bed. At least he could get out and back in without falling. Poor guy had a big bump on his noodle from the escape attempt. Thanks to Sheri's advice we put a baby gate on the door since he can open the door himself. The first night he'd wake up screaming every 4 hours or so, but we let him cry it out and he would finally go back to sleep. Those were long nights! Now we're at a week and he wakes maybe once and is sleeping to 7 or 7:30! What a relief! Mommy and daddy are getting a lot happier now that we're getting more sleep. I still have to sit with him so that he falls asleep, but I don't talk to him or look at him. I need to just start leaving him alone so he learns to fall asleep on his own, but its so hard!
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I am so proud of you!! You guys are doing such a great job. Have you tried putting on music for him to listen to? We have a portable CD player in the boys' room. We put in a classical CD and just hit play and walk out.
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