Today I bought Kirsty a set of bath ducks in Asda, it’s a mummy duck with 2 baby ducks which sit on her back.

I went in the bath with her tonight and looked at her… she had a baby duck head in her mouth, sucking like it was a dummy, whilst playing with other bath toys

OMG she was so funny!!

We had a good night again!! She went to bed easily at approx 8pm. She woke for her feed at 11:45pm, was back down by 12:30am. She woke at 4:20am so I got up, popped the dummy in, tucked her in, put on her music and she went back to sleep until 6:50am!!!

I’m so proud of her this week!!!

It went well! Yesterday Kirsty started accepting the dummy for actual sucking purposes rather than playing. It meant she had 2 daytime naps yesterday without BFing to sleep. This was a HUGE step for her as she tends to BF to sleep most of the time unless out in the car or pram!

So last night… I BF her, and went to lay her down & she woke up (in one respect I’m glad because the whole point of this sleep training is she should go down awake).

So I tucked her in, said “sleepytime darling”, music on, put her muslin square in her hand, left the room. That was at 7:35pm, she cried 5 mins, went in same thing but didn’t talk, left her, she cried 5 mins again, went in same thing again, left her. By this time she was getting quite distressed so I left her another 5 mins… went in, popped a dummy in her mouth, muslin square in her hand & she zonked immediately. I think dummy & muslin square might be our new best friends?! She woke around 2ish for a feed, when I laid her back down she was wide awake with that “i wanna play” look on her face. I popped the dummy in, gave her the muslin, music on and went back to bed. That was her til 5:30! I went in and gave her the dummy at 5:30, music on and I got another hour in bed. She didn’t sleep but was happy in her cot.