Week of November 20, 2006

The experiment and learning experience continues this week with me trying to ignore Neil's cries at night so he learns to put himself to sleep. Slowly, he is definitely stretching his intervals between feedings to 4-5 hours at night. But now, he has learnt something new - he has found his fingers and he seems to enjoy sucking on them constantly! We are worried that he may cultivate this into a long term habit, so we try distracting him. But at night with no one to watch over him, I often wake up to these sucking sounds, coz he is busy sucking his fingers! Not a sound from him when he wakes up - no cries, no sounds, just plain ol' sucking! :-(