Controlled crying - progress report

We finally bit the bullet last night and, with a free weekend ahead of us, decided we should put Maddie through the saga that is controlled crying.

It obviously filled us with dread, thinking we were going to have to listen to our baby scream for up to 2 hours according to some sources, but we steeled ourselves and prepared for the worst (i.e. we hid in the kitchen with Alicia Keys playing really loudly).

Key stats are as follows:

Friday night

Down by: 19.45

Duration of crying: 25 minutes

Checked in: 20.15

Slept until: 06.30 (with a dream feed at 23.00)

Saturday morning

Down by: 08.50

Duration of crying: 15 minutes

Checked in: 09.10 (awake, but chilling in the cot)

Slept until: 10.00 (forced wake-up as we had to head out)

Fingers crossed tonight continues on this downward path - night 2 can often be worse than night 1, I'm told.