Learning to Sleep

Ian is now a month and a half old! He is growing and changing every day. One thing we are grateful for is that he is learning to sleep on his own thanks to the baby whisperer (and to the Bosankos for giving us that book). Before we were bouncing, rocking, pacing, singing, shushing and holding for hours. BUT NOW...we can swaddle him and place him in his crib and he can put himself to sleep most of the time. We used the shush/pat method for 2 weeks. All we did was swaddle him tightly both arms tucked in...he would cry, we would shush and pat at the same time until he fell into a deep sleep. It took about 20 mintues each time, but eventually he learned on his own. This made a world of difference for us!