Monday, July 28, 2008

Prayer request

This is Nolan getting out of his swaddle blanket. This sweet child has had to be swaddled since the day he was born and is freakishly strong, so we had to resort to the blanket that velcros him in. Two months ago I tried to get him to drop the swaddle and totally gave up after 3 days. However, through that we discovered that he doesn't need to be swaddled at night, just during his two naps (this makes NO sense to me that he hasn't been able to do both). So, this is the week that I am determined to break him of this sleep habit. It just make it difficult for other people to keep him, to sleep at the nursery at church, and he is 5 1/2 month old- it's just time! But this is the problem- he will go down and sleep the first 40 minutes, but then he wakes up and can not/will not go back to sleep (his naps are usually between 1 1/2- 2 hours). Last time I would go in and try to help him go back to sleep, I would try to let him cry it out and neither would work. This time I am just going to rely on crying and eventual exhaustion. So pray for me. It is so hard to listen to him cry for an hour days at a time. That's what got us here in the first place. He cried ALL the time the first 6 to 8 weeks of his life and desperation led me to doing whatever it took to make him sleep. Please pray that I don't give in and don't go crazy. Pray that he would just figure it out and sleep. Thanks. I'll keep you posted.

3 comments:

Susie said...

sarah!!! praying for wisdom, endurance, and patience for you and sleep/self- soothing for nolan.

Teresa said...

Praying right now friend!

Dana and Chris Sheheane said...

I'll definitely pray Sarah!! I'm so sorry!!! Robyn said to hang in there b/c Max did it too! She said it WILL change. love you! Dana