Friday was the first night of Beano's sleep training. The point of the training is to make the baby sooth him/herself to sleep and to limit the number of times the parents (read The Wife) have to get up during the middle of the night. The way you train your baby to sooth him/herself is by making them cry it out and not pick them up whilst fussy and upset in the crib.
So, last Friday was the first night of sleep training and it was... loud at times. We put him down at his normal bedtime, between 19:00 and 19:30 (if you don't know the 24hr clock, hang your head in shame). After ten minutes or so we hear Beano fussing and soon it escalates to full on screaming. Since we are sleep training him, we can do nothing but let him air it out (I once went upstairs to tell him he was safe and it was time to sleep - he didn't listen). After 22 minutes of wailing, he finally calmed down and we could hear him sobbing as he fell asleep.
The following two nights were uneventful and he fell asleep by himself without any crying. Monday night I was put in charge with preparing him for bed and bottle feeding him. The result? Back to square one! I had barely walked downstairs before he started with his fake coughing which then turned into fussing and finally screaming. He didn't cry for as long this time, only twenty minutes.
The Wife doesn't like the sleep training, she says that it hurts her heart to hear him cry like that. I, on the other hand, am a heartless bastard and carry on like I can't hear him.
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