An update regarding our sleep (or lack of it)...

Tuesday evening before bedtime we suddenly decided to take Andréas soother away. Why wait for the weekend? She cried in anger and of course because she was tired. We checked on her every 5th minute and said "Go to sleep!" with a firm but not angry voice. After 15 minutes her whining and crying stopped and after 20 minutes she slept. During the night she woke up three times, and two of them she actually fell back to sleep on her own, we didn't even go in to see her. So the first night felt very good! Yesterday evening she fell asleep in 10 minutes (H told me, I was out running!). The night was worse but mostly because she pooped around 1:30 am, something she never normally do during the night, and of course that woke her up and disturbed her. Apart from that I think she woke up around three times and like the first night, two of them she fell back to sleep without help.

One of the benefits of this is that we had to limit Lovisa's soother time too, it's not fair she has the soother now and then and Andréa can't have it at all! So now Lovisa's only aloud to have it when she's going to bed. It's been a bit of a struggle, mostly with Lovisa. I'm really surprised that Andréa seems to be pretty satisfied without the soother and she's not whining much more than usual. I'm sure there are going to be times when we'll miss having the soother to put in her mouth but what a relief it is not to search for that stupid tiny thing in the middle of the night, or rush back home when we're on our way to daycare, only because I forgot it!

Anyway, it's to early to say if this method really is working but I'm feeling positive and I think after the weekend we might be able to say if there really is a difference or not. Keep your fingers crossed!

She's pretty happy without her soother...