Starting Hudson on cereal has not helped his sleeping patterns at all. He still fights naps all day long, and then wakes up once or twice at night. The night times I can handle - it's the skipping naps that is starting to wear on me. I can spend all afternoon trying to get him down for a nap - and never win!
Yesterday I was over at my parents and let my mom try. She rocked him for 15 minutes and then came upstairs and said "He is stubborn!" And he never took a nap yesterday.
Today I rocked him for 10 minutes like I normally do. And he screamed for 10 minutes like he normally does. So I decided to try the "let him cry it out" approach. It's not working... We started naptime at 3 pm. 10 minutes of rocking and crying. Then we went for 31 minutes of full out screaming and crying in his bed. I went in every 10 minutes or so and wrapped him back up, comforted him a little, then would go back out. Then I thought he was going to go to sleep because he had about 10 minutes of just moaning a little. But as I started this post the screaming began again.
Oh wait - it stopped - nope, there he goes again.
So how long do you let them cry it out? (It's taking longer than 10 minutes Cecil!!) He's gone on for long enough now that it's time for him to eat again....it's an endless cycle!
I don't hear him now - could I have won the battle??? Nope.
Mommy's coming Hudson!!
