This week we have been teaching ZBL to be happy in his bed so that he can sooth himself to sleep during the day.  This has been great both for his daytime naps (he went from four 20 minute naps per day and being cranky a lot of the time to having three 45 min to 2 hour naps per day and being happy baby most of the day :-) AND it’s been great for his night time sleep (which was pretty good to begin with: he has only woken up one time per night since he was born with about 7 nights of exceptions when he woke 2 times).

Last night he both put himself to sleep without crying, happily playing in his crib until he just fell asleep (I sit by his side but don’t interact with him unless he starts crying so that he’s not alone and if he cries I help him but don’t pick him up) AND he woke up at 3 am, played a bit, and FELL BACK TO SLEEP BY HIMSELF!!!?!?!  Wow.  I wasn’t sure the 3:00 waking would result in him going back to sleep by himself but I watched him on the video monitor and listened to his voice tones and he was happy the entire time.  Then I noticed he wasn’t talking to himself anymore and looked at the monitor to find him still with his eyes closed, asleep :-)

Amazing.