First of all, we just had 2 days of high 70s/low 80s and it was AWESOME! Julian slept much better those nights, but it's cold again and he was up every 1-2 hours despite me putting on the heater in our room.
Yesterday Dan had a conference all day, so I was alone from noon till 9:30pm. I was starving, so I set up a play area in the kitchen for Julian to entertain himself and see me while I made some stir fry. He was fussy from the begining, but as soon as the frying started, he was really crying. I finished, but he was pretty upset. I then wanted to eat what I had made, go figure, and he was so fussy that I put on Veggie Tales. He seemed to really watch the show and I ate...guilt free...until...
I put him to bed and an hour later he woke up in a full out scream. I though something had fallen on him or that he got hurt since it was such a blood curdling scream. It was awful. I ran up to the room, picked him up, and tried to console him. He could hardly catch his breath and was inconsolable. Did I mention that it was awful? I tried to nurse him, squeeze him, bounce him, everything and nothing was calming him down. I brought him down stairs and told him how much I loved him and he finally started to wake up and calm down, but he had worn himself out in just those few minutes.
What was it from? Was it the Veggie Tales that he saw? He doesn't see tv except for the morning news that I watch every day, but the cartoons had some "bad guys" in them. I don't know. I guess no more tv.
Dan said earlier this week that I'd never be able to do the CIO method, but I disagreed. I said I could for sure do it because it would mean I would get some sleep after 3 days of hell. Well after the night terror, I held Julian in my arms until Dan got home. I told Dan that I could NEVER do the cry it out (CIO) method. Those 5 minutes broke my heart so much and, like I stated above, he slept like CRAP last night :( We didn't even reap any benefit from that cry.
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