He Won

So after the past several weeks of consistently getting LM to sleep in his crib, I am done. Last night he woke up as per usual; I comforted as per usual; I sat in the chair in his room shushing from just out of view, and I thought, this just is not working. I am sooooo sick of repeating "sleepytime" and waiting for him to fall asleep, and hearing him cry "mummy?????" I have been up for an hour and a half every night for the past month, except for two or three times where I was only up 20 minutes. So I got the Pack and Play and set it up in my room and threw him in it. (Aside, why do we call them Pack and Plays? Why can't we just admit they're playpens?) He howled for 20 minutes.)

Anyway, at 1 a.m. he was back in the bed and my weeks of consistency (aside from one slip up in late May) were out the window. He's got more stamina than me. He threw his skinny arms around me and buried his face in my neck and was sound asleep in minutes. And so was I, so much so that I slept for 35 minutes after the alarm went off at 6:30.

We'll try again in a few months. But for right now, we're done. Guess he wasn't ready yet after all.