Camille’s sleep habits

We finally had Camille’s nine-month check up last week. She was sick so I had to cancel the first appointment. The checkup went well. She is 17 lbs 2 ounces and 27.5 inches long. She is getting big. The doctor and I talked a lot about her sleeping. She is still up twice a night a few nights a week to eat. Part of it is that I don’t totally mind. I feed her and put her back to bed. Total awake time is 10 minutes. Plus I like the time with her and I don’t want her to grow up so in a way it is keeping her a baby to me. The doctor told me though she is too old to be doing this and I was creating a monster. He also said it would be a lot harder to stop the longer I did it and that it was kind of cruel to her to continue and then just stop someday when I was over it. So I cut her off this weekend. The plan was for John to go in there and comfort her. We started Friday night when John didn’t have to get up for work the next day. She did wake up Friday night but never really cried hard. We heard her talking and complaining but she went back to sleep so he didn’t have to do anything. Sat night she slept all the way through without making a peep. 8 pm-7:30 am. It was great. John bragged that he was that good he got her to sleep all night. I say she realized she might as well sleep if she wasn’t getting Momma. Again she tricked us. She was just waiting for a workday to keep us up. She woke up about 5am this morning. John went in there and it just made her mad. Very mad. We even got desperate and tried a pacy but it was a joke. She didn’t know what to do with it. It kills me laying there listening to John and her struggle when I know I could go in there and solve the problem in seconds. Especially when John has to get up early and has so much pressure on him at work, I know he needs to be sleeping. After about an hour of John going in there she finally gave up and went back to sleep. When she woke for good at 7:15 she didn’t even want to eat right away. So I know she does not need to eat in the middle of the night. It has been 3 nights no turning back now.