Sleeping, Sickness, and Solid Food!!

I can’t believe it’s already February!. January was a busy month for us. We tried sleep training Ryan, which was going really well, until he got sick, and we also began introducing more solid food on a regular basis.

I decided to start sleep training Ryan around the second week of January. He has never been a good sleeper; he usually wakes anywhere from 2-4 times at night and was only taking 30ish minute naps. I was spending a good 30 minutes nursing him to sleep each night only for him to wake up 30-40 minutes later and wanting to nurse back to sleep again. It was taking up a good chunk of our evening and the time Josh and I have to spend together. So, we decided to try to sleep train. We went with a modified version of “Cry it out” because it had been pretty successful for nap times. The first night he cried for about 20 minutes, and woke up quite a few times that night, but by the end of the week he was falling asleep on his own for naps and bedtime and he was sleeping for longer stretches!

Two weeks later, we had a wave of sickness in our house. Josh and Ryan both got colds and Ryan wasn’t sleeping well at all. I did a lot more rocking and cuddling and one night he slept with me so he could be upright to help him breath better. Needless to say, we got sidetracked on the sleep training. So here we are in February, he’s still not consistently sleeping through the night, but sometimes he surprises me and I wake up to my alarm clock instead of crying.

We also began introducing more solids and he loves eating dinner with us and being a part of that family time. He loves sweet potatoes, peas, and apples. We have enjoyed recording some of his reactions to different foods. I will leave you with a video of him trying pears from a jar. I think they were a little sour for him!