Massive Sleep Training

So for all of you lucky parents that haven't had to do too much sleep training, i am jealous. This is our 5th? attempt at sleep training Jordon. He was sleep trained at 4 months when he was still sleeping on his back and then you know what happened after his 6 month checkup, chiropractic appointments for his flat head. I never realized how hard it would be to get him sleep trained again. After 4 months or so of rocking him to sleep and holding him until i got done with his head massage treatment, he became so used to it and very spoiled, not that we didn't enjoy the cuggle time but it was getting out of hand, now he didn't know how to fall asleep by himself anymore.

After his chiropractic treatments were done, that's when we started to do our first attempt, each time he'd do ok at night but not during the day. He would scream til he puked. And every time he'd teeth and get a cold i'd get soft on him and hold him a bit since he couldn't breathe that well, and wasn't feeling good. My bad, even sometimes he'd come to bed with us after i'd give up in the middle of the night with him screaming for over a half hour.

Now he's almost 14 months old and still not sleep trained. We put up dark curtains and always have his fan on and music playing. This week i started real sleep training. Before i'd hold him til he fell asleep during the day naps, and sleep train him at night. He got confused with why i wouldn't hold him before bed too, so i said that's it, time to make him know how to do everything himself with sleeping.

Sunday night was bad, we both had to hold him down in his crib with our hands on his back and bum singing him songs, reading him stories, telling him everything would be ok, he wouldn't let us leave until he was asleep with us still there. Monday was first day of nap training, he cried and babbled in his crib for over an hour in the morning, still wouldn't sleep, and then after lunch we tried again, he screamed for a half hour and finally fell asleep at 12 but woke up at 2 cranky with a BM. That night we put him down at 7, since he was acting tired, cried for 20 minutes puked up all of dinner. Changed everything and got new jammies on him and calmed him down a little, still had to hold him down in his crib and sang more songs. finally asleep by 8:15. Woke up 11 hours later with a few cries in the night. Tuesday he did better, he cried for about 15 minutes for his naptime at 12 and went down last night at 8:00 and slept straight til 6:45 this morning with no sounds at all at night. He cried for about 15 minutes and he was out. Today hasn't gone so well, he wouldn't take a morning nap and at 11:30 i put him in his crib and he cried for a half hour, had a BM, i put him back in his crib and he freaked out crying until finally he fell asleep at 12:30. I'm hoping in a weeks time he'll be trained before i pull out my hair. Sleep training has definitely put a toll on me, i even have a pimple to prove it!

So I hope Jordon will forgive me for all of this, i keep on reminding myself that this is for his own good, he needs to learn how to do it. I might need earplugs though, cause it's pretty tough on the Mommy! Next will be taking away his bottle. He's very attached to it. I figure we took away his binky and he's ok now, give him another week and he'll be sleep trained, and then we'll start with slowly taking away the baba's. Right now I'm trying to just morning and night bottles. Wish me luck and if any advice let me know!