Unbelievable…
“It seemed to me that in the first year, just as you had things ‘figured out’ they would go and switch things around on you!” - Aunt Nancy, who wrote this to me in an email after my “Sleep” post.
Boy is Aunt Nancy right! Poor Natalie has been teething (I can see a little white spot poking through her bottom gum) and she was pretty miserable on Tuesday. She’s been rejecting the pacifier since she was about 6 weeks old, but I decided to try giving it to her because she was hurting her fingers she was biting them so hard. Much to my surprise, she took it! I am so grateful to have another way to soothe her.
Okay, here’s the really unbelievable part…after all our troubles with sleep, I actually put Natalie in her crib fully awake last night, she fell asleep on her own and slept for 4 hours! I had nursed her, and she looked like she was going to fall asleep at one point, but didn’t. Purely as an experiment, I put her in the crib with her pacifier, expecting that she would cry as she always did before when I put her in the crib awake. I was truly shocked that she got to sleep on her own!
