Tonight we said goodbye to bottles in our house. Lately night time has been a battle with you, Gavin. You are not wanting to sleep and just think you need more and more milk. You also want to be held but then do the alligator death roll and try to get out of it once we hold you. Because of this I just knew that you needed to be putting yourself to sleep again.
So tonight, we said bye bye to babas and did our typically dinner, bath, pajama routine and instead of a bottle we read some stories and you went down in your crib awake. You screamed for 45 min while Lucas went right to sleep. We felt bad for you luc, because brother was loud but he had to work it out on his own - we of course checked on him and reassured him we were there but he wasn't going to get picked up.
It was definately the right decision, because the next night it only took 15 min and the night after that and every night since within 5 minutes you are settled right down and happily sleep. It also seems that you have not been waking up during the night either.
We also found that 7:30 pm is the perfect bedtime, you are both just tired enough to go right down but not over tired to the point where you are hyper.
Cheers to a happy bedtime routine and less stress in our house!
Love,Mama
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