Rock a Bye Baby

Dear Colin,

Today I called a dear friend for advice on helping to parent you to sleep because this Mommy has been struggling.  You are a wonderful little guy (though a bit moody at times) but you have a terrible time sleeping.  You are unable to sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time for naps unless Mommy is holding you and nurses you back down.  If you hear any noise or see a smidge of daylight before I am able to get to you your eyes pop open and all hope of a return to your nap is gone.  At night you often start the night out with a quick 30 minute siesta which earns you a binkie at wakening and then you might sleep for an hour at a time.  But, the last week you have been waking every 30 minutes.  Its quite difficult for Mommy to get anything done with this going on so I called in the reinforcements.

Tonight you are on your mattress on the floor.  You are swaddled with a blanket (made by Grandma Mary) over you and a warm fleece blanket under you.  I am breaking a million baby sleep safety rules but that's what a Mom must do to get her baby some much needed rest.  You simply won't grow big and strong, smart and confident if you get no sleep.  So, as I sit here and type this one eye is on my phone watching you sleep (for your own sleep and my own sense of safety).  I don't expect you to sleep all night (in fact, you have already woken once) and it is likely you will end up in my bed at some point tonight but that's ok......we are taking baby steps. 

The goal is to get another mattress and put that in Mommy's room and that way you stay on a mattress (and out of Mommy's bed so Daddy can come back and sleep in the room) but you will still be close and perhaps that will help you sleep better.  If I had another crib I would sidecar it to my bed but I don't have that so a mattress will have to do (you are too big for the co-sleeper).

I hope that this works for you Colin because I really want you to get some good sleep at night!  WE will work through this together love-bug!

xoxo
Mommy