Sleep Training at 13 months???

For the past week-ish, Lydia has decided she does not want to go to sleep in her crib. We have always snuggled with her at night until she fell asleep (around 8:00) and then gently set her in her crib to continue in her restful slumber. Well, the new trend is we cuddle her until she falls asleep around 8:00pm then head up to her room to put her to bed....just like before. But now, as soon as we open her door she starts squirming and crying. We have been trying to figure out if something is wrong with her. Does she not feel well? Is she teething? As far as we can tell, she just doesn't want to go to bed in her crib. Great. Now what? Two nights ago, DH tried to cuddle her all night. Picker her up and cuddling was the only thing that got her to stop crying. So she went to bed with us. That did NOT work. She tossed and turned and squirmed and whined all night. I don't know that any of us really got any sleep. This led to crabby Thursday for a very sleep-deprived mamma.

I was curious to find out how her day at daycare was yesterday. They said she did just great! Took 2 good naps and was her happy self all day. Hmmmmm.... I think that confirms our hypothesis that she feels fine. We were hoping her sleep issues were just going to be a phase, so we were hopeful that we could go back to our normal bedtime routine. No such luck. Last night was much of the same as the night before. We needed a game plan. We decided that it might be time to do some sleep training. Ugh! So she fell asleep with me last night around 8:00, I went to put her down, she threw a tantrum, I comforted her for a little while then left the room to let her cry. We let her go for about 15 minutes at a time and then we would go in and reassure her. This went on from 8:45-10:30. Then I decided I had to go to bed. So I'm not sure how long after that it lasted. But I do know that DH and I were in our bed this morning and Bean was sleeping in hers. This might mean that I'm on baby duty tonight :-\ I'm really hoping this works....and quickly!!!

In other life news... I passed my dental boards!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippppppeeeeee! Now I have a bunch of competencies to complete at school before I graduate in MAY! Now it's time to hit the job hunt hard!

Spring break starts for me at 4:00pm today! I decided it was a good day for a half day. I slept in until almost 9:00. It felt soooo good. I have a patient this afternoon, so I couldn't take the whole day off ;)

For a little comedy - Lydia hitting the bottle: