Parker's Bad Night

Once upon a time, Parker used to sleep all night. Once upon a time I woke up in the morning and felt like I had been asleep. Those days are over...
Well - after nights and nights of Parker waking up every 2 hours we finally made an educated decision to embark on the Ferber Sleep Method. In this method, you let the baby cry for 5 minutes before going in. When you go in you don't touch the baby - you just tell them that you are there. You leave again and wait 10 minutes. The same rules apply when you return. You leave for 15 minutes next...and so on all night until they finally "learn how to soothe themselves and drift off to sleep".

We have tried everything under the sun to get him to go back to sleep (we even tried letting him sleep in our bed...but he just pulled our hair and screamed.)We decided we could let him cry for before going in to get him. Our logic was maybe he was not all the way awake and would fall back asleep if we left him alone. Jon and I decided to sleep out in the living room so we did not hear him until he was actually crying. We were obviously prepared for a LONG night.

Right on cue at 1:00am we hear Parker start to cry. "Do you think is a good idea?" I asked Jon. "He is fine - he'll go back to sleep. Let's just watch the clock" Jon reassured me. "I wonder what is going through his head" I said.

"Ug - why am I awake?! This just ticks me off to no end! Where is that dang pacifier? It's hot in here isn't it? Yeah it is definately hot in here. When Mom comes she'll turn on the air. Where is Mom? She is usually here by now. Where is that stupid pacifier?! Ok - this is getting ridiculous - where is she?! Maybe I should scream louder? It is so hot! Do you know what I am starting to think? Maybe she is gone. Maybe I am never going to see her again. Maybe she just left. That's what happened. I am alone. I am all alone. I will never be able to trust or love again. My heart is sad and my soul is ruined...I will never be the same again.

Needless to say - we let Parker cry for exactly 25 seconds.
Richard Ferber, obviously, is man with a heart of stone!