Sleep Training, Night 4

He cried for 24 minutes tonight and was asleep shortly thereafter. Right thing and converging series notwithstanding, this is still hard. In some some people's lives it is normal to be yelled at for half an hour every day. It is not in mine. Combined with a difficult handoff and a hard deadline of the end of this week for my job transition at work, I am a basket case. In getting Quinn to nap long enough during the day to promote night sleeping, Bec has to wear Quinn during all naps. That, and the timing and length of the naps, means she isn't able to get much exercise or go to all her mommy group activities that have provided her with such a valuable support network. Combined with 15 months of accumulated exhaustion, she is struggling too. And I feel powerless to help.

And this is just one kid. How do people do it with two? Or more, jeepers, I can't even imagine it.

He slept til 7am again this morning though. If we can all just make to next week maybe it'll all be ok...