night number Who Cares!

alright its been 7 nights, well tonight is night number 7 and katie just finished crying for 45 minutes. ughhhhhhh lets see night number 1,2,and 3 were awful but night number 4 she slept through the night. we started on a friday and bri was home so it was easy to follow the routine the doctor gave us and the 3 nights we started (friday, sat, and sunday) we followed it perfectly. dinner, playtime with daddy, nurse, bath, then rock for a few minutes and then cry it out. come in every 5 then 10 then 15 minutes and by night number 4 katie figured it out. my pediatrician says that's pretty text book. it takes 3 nights and it did! but come monday, tusday, wed, bri was workign late, katie had started teething, and we just didn't follow the schedule as well...we mixed up nursing, she was teething so she didn't' wanna eat, we skipped a bath one night, bri wasnt' home so he didn't get the hour of playtime with her so basically we screwed up.
so the past 3 nights i feel like we are moving backwards. like we are starting all over again. well tomorrow is friday night so i guess we will be able to start back up again the right way. was this whole week a waste??? ughhhhhhhh the one good thing that came out of this was that i know she can sleep through the night without food. that's a good thing to know and it makes me feel good about the amount of food she is getting.
one other good thing that has come from this week is when she does wake up in the middle of the night she doesn't need to be rocked for a long period of time. she can be laid down and given her paci, or worst case, i pick her up and she is asleep in a few minutes which is a hell of a lot better than rocking her for 30+ minutes. except for night number 5... holy moly katie was up from 1-2 screaming. ughhhhhh whatever besides the point. all in all she is doing well when she does wake up and for that i'm thankful.
another good thing that came from this week is her naps have been GREAT! she is taking an early nap around 930ish and then another one in the early afternoon before 2. no more 11 and 330. she is doing great during the day. i can't believe her schedule is coming together so well during the day and her naps have been consistent as well as lengthy. no more 3 and 4 naps for 30-45 minutes. she is taking 2 good naps! oh i'm so happy about that! well lets hope after tonight's 45 minutes of crying tonight she will sleep through the night. she needs to be well rested because daddy decided to take the day off tomorrow to play with us! yeahhhhhhh 3 day weekend with bri. we are soo excited!
well.... tomorrow i'm gonna write about fun stuff. no more talking about sleeping. i'm over it. it will happen when it happens. all i can do at this point is say a prayer and hope i have the strength to keep this up and teach katie about bed time. wish me luck. god knows i need it!