raisin kane: {Scrap Paper Schedule}

Its official! C man is on a schedule! After weeks of everyone being miserable and completely sleep deprived, we were at the end of our rope. He was not napping, barely sleeping at night, and cranky all the time. I didn't know what to do so I was feeding him every 2-3 hours! We had to do something!

I pulled out one of the many books that I bought before Cal was born, dusted it off and decided I needed to actually put things into practice! I chose the babywisperer book because it is full of testimonials and it really made sense to me! Also, the author Tracy Hogg doesn't use the CIO (cry it out) method, which sounds completely miserable! We desperately needed to figure out how to get Cal to fall asleep in his crib, and not in our arms! We used Hogg's "pick up, put down" method along with her "shush pat" method. Cal is making progress and now it only takes him a few mins to fall asleep in his crib!

Needless to say, everyone around here is happier and more rested. I found myself always looking at the book to remind myself of this new schedule, so I decided to write it down and post it to the fridge, it's a good reminder for me and especially for mikie. Sometimes I find myself wanting to stray from the schedule having it posted helps me stick to it!