Sleep Update

Thanks to Good Night Sleep Tight by The Sleep Lady (and to Mandy for reading the relevant chapters for me) we now have a plan of action to eliminate the hours long drama of putting Charlie to bed. In conjunction with limitting his afternoon naps to no more than 1 1/2 hours and setting his bedtime a half hour earlier, I have started "checking" on Charlie, first 5 minutes after I put him to bed, then 10 minutes, and then in 15 minute intervals until he falls asleep. Last night it took 3 checks before he was asleep and he got out of bed 2 times. Tonight it took 3 checks before he was asleep and he got out of bed zero times!!! (As compared to say, 20 times a night last week.)

He still wakes up in the middle of the night with nightmares, but we are tackling one thing at a time.

Thank you Sleep Lady!!