Sleep training

For the first three months of Ava's life, she has gone to bed around 9 or 10pm. Since she was sleeping through the night and not waking up until 6am, I didn't think it was a problem -- especially since she's been doing this from a very early age, which makes other moms hate us. (Sorry not sorry.)

But now, she's almost four months old.

It's time to sleep-train this kid.

Sleep training means Ava needs to go to bed around 6:30 or 7, like a normal baby. It means she stays in the crib -- no sneaking her into my bed at the 6am feeding. It means letting her fuss instead of running in there to check a diaper, put the paci back in her mouth or rock her in the glider. It means putting her in the crib before she passes out, not after.

It means I stocked up on wine in preparation for endless nights of hell.

And yet...

Ava is doing really well so far. (Sleep-deprived moms: Stop reading now.)

The first night, we put her to bed by 6:30 because she started getting really tired. Dave was on baby duty, but Ava only woke up once or twice needing a paci and slept until 6:30. (I think. I don't really know because I slept in.)

The second night, we gave her a bath at 6, fed her at 6:15 and put her in the crib at 6:45. Al was on baby duty while we went to a work dinner for Dave's new role, but he said Ava only fussed twice before we got home at 11. She woke up around 5:30 but we gave her a paci and she slept until 7:30.

Tonight is the third night, and it's just me and Ava. I hope she's still cool about all this. We're going to follow last night's routine so we'll see.

I've got wine chilling just in case...


UPDATE: I have been informed that Ava was a gigantic shit on the first time we (Dave) sleep-trained her. Kept waking up crying so much to the point Dave had to rock her in the glider. Refused to sleep until 9:30pm. I, obviously, was blissfully unaware.