Sleep Training...

Gage has been a great sleeper ever since he was 6 weeks old and sleeping through the night. A little after his first year birthday, he started waking up in the middle of the night. At first, I would go downstairs to get him back to sleep, and eventually, I just started bringing him back to bed with us. Daniel and I sleep terrible when he is in bed with us. Gage is a SPRAWLER, so I end up sleeping on the very edge of the bed, and constantly wake up to move him away from kicking Daniel. So on Wednesday, we decided that we were going to let him CIO and learn to sleep in his own bed. *sigh* He woke up at 2:00 in the morning, and we just let him cry. I checked on him to make sure everything was alright, but then came back upstairs. He cried for almost an hour before I noticed that his cries started to sound different...louder...closer. I got out of bed to see what was wrong, and found Gage...sitting on the STAIRS! He had climbed out of his crib, and was sitting in the dark half way up the stairs. *cry* He was holding his blanket, all his pacis, and his Little People farm. It broke my heart. Needless-to-say, I brought him to bed with us after that. So the next morning, I got serious about our little problem, and read another book on sleep training. This book was by Dr. Ferber, and does incremental CIO. We tried it that night, and it worked perfect! He didn't even wake up once! Then we did it again last night, and he woke up 4 times. *grrr* BUT...I never got past the 10 minute mark after going in to reassure him we were still there. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, but I can see that Gage is learning how to go back to sleep on his own. I know that within a week, he should be sleeping all night. I can't wait!!!! :)