This past week we made the decision to try letting the Bean sleep in his big boy bed. To be honest, it wasn’t the Bean that was the concern. It was me. Every time we talked about moving him out of the bassinette in our bedroom, I got all teared up. What if he cried in the middle of the night and I slept through it? What if he got scared? What if a giant bug flew into his room? What if he thought we abandoned him? Oh, the agony of the big boy bed!
But lately, he has been sleeping for 5 and 6 hours at a time pretty consistently and so I felt a little better about it. At least I knew he wouldn’t be waking up all night long wondering where everyone had gone. So, Thursday night Chris and I set up his Baby Einstein CDs so that he had some music to keep him company. I put a little fan in his room so he wouldn’t get hot. We changed his sheets and hung his mobile. Then we gave him a nice warm bath, put him in fresh jammies, gave him his bottle, and rocked him until he was just about to fall asleep. Then very quietly, I laid him in his big boy bed. He looked up at me with those big, blue eyes and for just a second, I almost backed out. But I summoned all the strength I could and I kissed him goodnight and tip toed out of the room.
I carried his baby monitor downstairs with me and sat with it pressed against my ear like a telephone, just so that I was sure I didn’t miss a single peep from him. Five minutes passed and I hadn’t heard one noise – not a coo, not a cry, not a sigh, nothing.
“This thing isn’t working!” I told Chris and I marched up to the nursery.
The Bean was sound asleep. He had never fallen asleep so fast before. I didn’t know what to say. I just stood there staring. And then I poked his cheek to make sure he was breathing. He moved a little bit, which made me feel better, and so I left the room and went back down to the living room with Chris. It was 9:00 PM and the house was quiet. It was amazing. Chris and I watched the Deadliest Catch (love that show!). I paid some bills. Chris worked on the computer. I did some laundry. It was amazing! This could be the greatest thing to happen to us in 5 weeks!
WE WERE FREE!!!
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