My birthday present

My birthday was this past Friday and for my birthday I decided the present I really wanted was a baby boy who did not wake up two to three times a night, but just kept on sleeping right on through it. Unfortunately you can't just blow out your candles and wish for this to be so, you have to make it happen yourself. So Friday night after a wonderful birthday date night with my beautiful wife, we decided to ferberize our little baby boy. It's kind of crazy that it even came to this, because at three months old he was actually sleeping through the night, but then he decided to turn things around at about five months and start acting like a normal baby. He starting waking up two or three times a night, and we would give him a bottle but he would only eat one or two ounces, so I knew he wasn't really hungry. So without even doing any research on the internet or reading eighteen books we ferberized, with our only knowledge of the subject being to let the little man cry it out and not pick him up. Which in our case is especially difficult because we are still sharing a room with baby boy. I am sure having to hear your child cry and scream bloody murder no matter where they are is not easy for anyone, but when they are doing it five feet away from you I know it is really hard. And in that extremely long hour of bawling my wife and I both had moments of weakness, but luckily we were each able to convince the other not to give in. In my wife's case it was a lot harder because she is still breast feeding in the mornings and evenings so she not only had to try and sleep with ear plugs in and a pillow over her head, but also while holding her boobs at the same time so they would not explode. But we did get through that first night, and the past two nights as well, each getting a little bit easier. The second night he cried for about forty five minutes and then last night for about half an hour, and all we have to do is get up and shove the pacifier back in his mouth a couple of times. So even though it is taking a bit of work I am getting a wonderful birthday present, almost a full night's sleep!