We're trying something new.
David & I came to this decision about 2 weeks ago when it was taking a ridiculous amount of time rocking Lucy to sleep. So that night so i crawled in her crib and told her she needed to fall asleep on her own, but that i would be there so she wouldn't puke from crying if i walked out of the room or throw a big tantrum if i just sat on the floor next to the crib. About an hour into laying her crib she fell asleep so i crawled on out and decided that maybe we should start doing this every night rather than rocking her. The first couple nights took about an hour for her to settle down and stop wiggling all around, the first couple naps only took about 20 minutes... the days to follow were a roller coaster of unpredictability if she were actually going to fall asleep or not and in what time frame that would happen. As of yet we haven't seen too much of a pattern of this actually being a quicker way of putting her to sleep but we will continue to do this to see if it works.
Our next steps will be to actually step outside of the crib. David put her down for a nap this afternoon and used this technique- it took about an hour and a half but someday we'll get closer to the door and maybe even one day we'll be able to put her in her bed and she'll zonk out without us.
