CIO day 5. so far so good.

Like... soooo good!  I got my first 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep in quite a while...  probably in like, a year.  We've tried CIO several times but the timing was always bad.  The first time, tag was just too young (I don't recommend doing CIO before 6 months).  The second time worked for a week but then tag's teeth came in.  Now, the third time seems to have been the charm.  Thanks to my friend Jess for the advice/encouragement on it.  It's so great to be able to share and take wisdom from others going through the same things!  I love it! 

Our schedule so far, which I adapted from Jess's schedule, goes something like this:

7AM- wake up
-milk/oatmeal with fruit
-play time

(tag loves live wires?)

9AM-nap
-10-10:30AM wake
-milk
-play

(did I mention he's crawling?  yep.  everywhere.  these pillows were an attempt to barrier him into the living room.  that worked for maybe 2 days.) 

12PM-nap
-1-1:30PM wake
-milk /veggie baby food 
-play 

3:30pm-nap

-4:30-5pm wake

-milk/fruit or veggie baby food

-play

(bath time is so fun now!)

-bath

-milk

-books

8pm -bed



Now, I'm sure a few type A personalities would look at this and say, "ha. that is not a schedule..." and I'd say, "well for me, it is."  I'm barely a routine person.  I hate being locked into a schedule, so this is pretty good for me.  I did sort of take into account what our day looked like before we did CIO, and I took into account the things that we have going on each week like church, homegroup, my work out time, etc.  An 8pm bed time just works best for all those things and adds flexibility in there for all the other things that come up every week.  Ideally, I'd like it if tag slept till 8am and then only took two, two hour naps instead of waking up at 7 and taking 3 1 to 1.5 hour naps, but we'll get there.  Or we won't?  Either way, it's all good because I'm sleeping.  Whoop whoop!