What a night!

Last night was rough!!! Trey and I have been going back and forth on how we want to put Aubrey down for naps and at night. I have been asking everyone what they did with their baby and get pretty much the same answer. I have to do what works for us. Up to now we have been holding her for her naps or she sleeps in her car seat or bouncer. At night we have been rocking her to sleep and then oh so carefully been putting her in her crib. This sometimes takes a while and we have to hold our breath and pray that she goes down the first time. She has been sleeping through the night since she was 6 weeks old so we did not want to mess with what we thought was a good thing. Last night though we decided to start putting her in her crib while she is still somewhat awake so that she can learn to fall asleep on her own. Everything we have read tells us that we will be so happy later on if she can do this. It is so hard though!!! I had to go and sit in our closet. We had the bathroom vent on too to drown out her cry! Trey would go and check on her every five minutes, each time adding five minutes before he went in. I was a mess! I kept praying that God would just calm her sweet little mind and body. It was so much harder than I thought it would be. I hate to hear her cry! I really don't think she has cried a total of more than 2 hours in her life. I know! I know! Time to do this! We thought 3 1/2 months was a good time to start. I really did not think it was going to work, but after 45 minutes of crying on and off she fell asleep! Trey and I felt like we had just conquered Mount Everest!!! She was asleep! Yay!!! She woke up this morning around 8:00 as happy as could be.
Today we are going to try it out at nap time. We have only done one nap so far this morning and it was hard. She again cried for about 45 minutes and is now asleep! I can't wait untill she does not cry at all when we put her down.