Modern Family Let the Baby Cry it Out

So if you have not seen this show... you are missing out! Tonight's episode is so great... it touches on whether you should let your baby cry it out at bedtime or go in and comfort her when she cries. It is the funniest show I have seen in a very long time. So anyway... the gay couple in the show have an adopted daughter and one of the father's wants to try "ferberizing" which I have never even heard of, but basically it is the "let the child cry it out method so they learn how to cope". The other father cannot stand to hear her cry for so long and will go in and get her and bring her out to watch the movie "Scarface" of all things.

Now I have to admit that we may have done this once or twice and there have been more occasions than I can count that he has spent the night in our bed, but there were never times that I had to wrestle Mama T to the ground to prevent her from going into his bedroom and comforting him by picking him up out of the crib. Ha ha ha

There were times though that we were afraid he would never sleep in his own bed in his own room. But why would he when he had the sweet set up where he could take up 3/4s of the bed and leaving the other 1/4 for Mama T and I to fight over. I mean we did keep him in our room in a pack n play for at least ten months, but that is besides the point. :-)

It was not an easy decision to move him, but he seemed uncomfortable in the pack n play and too comfortable in our bed so we made the move for him for his benefit. I didn't like the fact that he was so far away from us, but I knew that he needed his space and that space was in his own bed in his own room.

Now the only time he sleeps with us is when he is sick or is just having a rough night, which is not that often. It normally happens when he is running a fever or is teething really badly. Once he finally did move, it was a fairly easy transition and there was not much crying that we had to listen to in the monitor. We just made sure he had numerous choochies and a consistent schedule that we made sure to stick to.

Our lil guy is growing up... too fast!