And we are back to square one with the bedtime stuff... Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights the boy was only waking up once, at around 5:30am which was fantastic! And.... then we left to spend a week with Timm's family in Atlanta and the whole process was shot to hell. He was waking up 5 times a night, not going back to sleep easily, the whole nine. We stuck with the night weaning (for all but one night out of sheer desperation) so Timm was the one soothing him back to sleep. Also, he was in our room, so I don't know if that helped or hurt the situation. Also the last few days of our visit, Asher developed diarrhea and one of the worst cases of diaper rash I've seen on him (perhaps due to the constant flow of junkfood he was offered from morning till night all week long?). The funny and terrible thing about diarrhea is that when he gets upset he poos. And when he poos the rash gets worse. And the poo leaks. So there is no "crying it out" at this point. We've been home for 2 days now and he is still waking up multiple times a night.
But last time, it only took a little over a week to get to the point of sleeping through till 5, so we can see the light at the end of the tunnel still. It's just the getting there that sucks.
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I found out that a dear friend's brother-in-law died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday morning. It struck me so hard, to know that a young, beautiful, cheerful woman is so suddenly a widow. You just never expect that someone your own age will have to go through such a tragedy. I cannot fathom the pain she must be feeling. I hope I never have to.
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