sleeping

After three non-consecutive nights of letting baby Doodle cry in his crib for no more than 15 minutes -- to try to get him to go to sleep without being on my breast -- he fell asleep in his crib two nights in a row after just a few minutes of monologue (not crying, talking). I am so pleased that he seems to have caught on to the bed time thing, at least at night.

He still doesn't nap very well. He'll sleep in his stroller or in the carseat, but won't just fall asleep in his crib if I put him in there when he's tired. He fights it during the day. As long as he's sleeping at night, I'm not going to worry about the bad nap habits he has. Last night BD slept from 9:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. with one short wake up around 1:00 a.m. when Mr. Doodlebug went to him and stuck his pacifier in his mouth. If BD keeps going to bed without a pacifier or my breast, we'll try to stop giving him the pacifier when he wakes up in the middle of the night, too.