We decided to make her start sleeping in her crib at night. She had been taking her naps in her crib and the only reason she was still sleeping in her pack-n-play at night was because she was still waking to eat once a night and she would lose her paci and wake up so it was so easy to just pop it back in and she would go back to sleep...and so would I. She also was fighting sleep and we were doing everything we could to get her to sleep...walking her, rocking her, bouncing her, etc... However, we decided that it was time for a change.
The first night she did really well. We put her in her crib around 8:30 when she was sleepy but still awake and just patted her for a little while. She eventually fell asleep with a little fussing. She slept all night without waking to eat and we just had to put her paci in a few times when she would lose it and start to wake up. The second night was pretty much the same but it took her less time to fall asleep. Each night she was getting progressively better about falling asleep on her own. In fact, now that we've done it a few weeks she rarely fusses at all when we put her in there and we don't even have to pat her anymore. She watches her mobile and caresses the butterflies on the sides of her bumper and falls asleep. She still wakes to eat usually once in the night around 2:30 and we still do have to go in occasionally to give her the paci but hopefully she will learn to self-soothe and she won't need it.
Another change was Sydnee had her first taste of sweet potatoes. She wasn't too sure about it at first but she eventually decided she liked it. About a week later she tried butternut squash and liked that too. Not sure what will be next...green beans, maybe???
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