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Future nudest?

I mentioned in my last post that we are doing the cry it out (CIO) method with Channing right now.  Luckily the past few nights have gone pretty well with little to no crying.  Maybe it's working?  I've been setting my alarm to wake me up at 3:30am so that I can do an extra dream feed with him.  This seems to help him sleep longer so I don't have to be up at 5 or 6am with a hungry baby.  Last night, or I guess it was very early this morning, I was feeding him when I felt Channing's tummy get really warm.  I touched his PJ's and they were drenched in pee!  I guess he pee'd while I was feeding him and his Target cheap brand diaper couldn't handle it. What goes in must come out right? 

In order for Justin and I, mostly me, to not hear Channing while we do this CIO thing we have to close Channing's door and our door.  Which means that I can only hear Channing if he is really crying hard.  Something that I don't like about this method is that I feel like I don't know how Channing slept at night or how long he's been awake when I get him out of his crib in the morning.  But hey, if it means I'm getting more sleep, then I'm okay with it.  And Channing is learning how to put himself back to sleep. 

This morning when I woke up Justin showed me a video he had taken of Channing when he went in to his room.  Apparently Channing is not only learning how to put himself back to sleep but he's learning how to undress himself.....   How he was able to get one arm out of his pj's is beyond me.  Next time we might just find him totally naked with his pj's thrown over the side of the crib. 


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