March 11, 2008

milestones

Lexi reached two important milestones this week. First, she started sleeping through the night! I had been using the cry-it-out method for getting her to go to sleep at night (basically, after our bedtime routine I put her in her crib and let her cry until she fell asleep, anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes). But during the night one of us, usually Gary, would bring her back to our bed so I could nurse her, and she'd stay there the rest of the night. On Friday we decided we needed to do some serious sleep training. Apparently that's the same night Lexi decided she'd start sleeping through the night, with no intervention on our part at all. She's now slept 4 nights in a row, so I am pretty confident I can say she sleeps through the night. At least until she starts teething again or gets sick.

For her second milestone, Lexi started crawling yesterday! Not very much, and not very far, but she was quite definitely on her hands and knees and moving forward. Now it's time for us to re-childproof the house.

Posted by Jen at March 11, 2008 12:50 PM
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Way to go Lexi!!!

Posted by: Mom at March 11, 2008 01:42 PM

Congratulations, Lexi! And you probably never really de-childproofed the house, did you?

Enjoy your sleep -- it's been a long time, hasn't it?

Posted by: Jessica at March 11, 2008 04:28 PM

Parts of the house (like Elliot's room) are pretty well childproofed. The living room is partly there, after I move some of the stuff from the bench by the front door. The den, though, is not very well childproofed, and never really was. I can't remember how we prevented Elliot from playing with all of the electronic equipment; maybe we just taught him to use it and let it be.

And the last time I had a full night's sleep was...the night of May 17th, 2007.

Posted by: jen at March 11, 2008 06:41 PM
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