What a night last night. Poor Tyler, he is cutting *three* teeth at the same time right now. I am assuming they are his one-year molars coming in. He woke up around 10:30, screaming and crying. We gave him some motrin, and then a bottle. He went back to sleep for about 45 minutes, then woke up again, screaming and crying. I didn’t know what to do, since he had just had the motrin and bottle, and that has always worked in the past. First I sat in the glider and rocked him. He started to fall asleep and I put him back in the crib, which immediately led to a new round of spazzing. I tried again (another 20-30 minutes of rocking), and the same result.
Desperate now, I tried taking him with me into our bed. that almost worked. But every time he’d move around, I think he would get confused because he wasn’t in his crib, and he would lift his head and look around in a daze. so it was back to the glider. another round of “almost asleep but spazzed as soon as he touched the crib mattress” and I had to take a break. I walked downstairs intending to wake Kevin (who manages to sleep through all this, despite the monitor downstairs being turned all the way up). So I sat on the couch for a few minutes, my heart being ripped out by the screams and cries of my child. Then – it happened — silence! I held my breath… nothing. Complete silence. Could it be? Is that what he needed, he just needed to spazz for a few minutes before he would calm down and drift off?? YES! I snuck up after another minute of two and he was out, sound asleep. Lesson learned – the experts are right, a few minutes of crying won’t do any permanent damage, and will save your sanity!