For several reasons such as traveling and hospital visits, we never established sleeping in the crib as part of the routine for Caleb. 95% of the time he slept with someone either in the bed or the recliner. However, now we are working hard to get him sleeping in the crib so that as he is developing his sleeping habits he isn't dependent on us to fall asleep. Also, working on the whole staying awake during the day and sleeping at night thing (he prefers to sleep 4AM to noon.)
Last night we tackled both of these. After ruling out him being fussy because he was hungry, I finally got him to settle down enough to close his eyes. I put him in the crib at 1AM and he was able to fall asleep...for 20 minutes! At 1:20 I had to pick him up and settle him down but I was able to put him back down after only a few minutes. Then he slept until 2AM, which at that time I had to settle him back down. Next came 3AM, so he slept almost an hour that time. I decided he might be hungry so I fed him, and of course, he fell asleep nursing. So I laid him down immediately and he slept until I woke him up at 8AM to eat.
Now he is taking a nap in the crib and I only had to pick him up once to settle him down. The second time he was able to calm down while staying in the crib. Maybe we are making progress!
I do have pictures to post, but I've got to figure out how to get them on here.
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