Justin and I made the big mistake of, up until now, giving our one-year-old John a bottle every time he woke up at night. This morning was his 12-month well-baby and the pediatrician said that now is the time to stop giving formula at all and especially using it as a crutch at night.
Well, I've been listening to John cry for ten minutes now. He's happy enough without a bottle if I'm holding him, but when I put him back in bed, he started back up again. Even now, he'll cry, then stop for a minute like he's listening for a reaction, then start up again. I told myself that if he's still crying at 1:55, I'll go make a small bottle.
Thankfully the silent time between cries is getting longer as I write this. Its kinda like how you know a storm is moving away from you if the time between thunderclaps gets longer. And he's started babbling to himself interspersed with that halfhearted, whiny crying.
I hate hearing him cry. He does it so infrequently that I'm spoiled.
I've been having a bit of insomnia tonight. It figures that when I finally rolled over to sleep, that was when he started crying. I swear, the kid is psychic. Always has been :-P
Hopefully sleep comes to us both soon!
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