Bedtime

It is amazing how different Brody and Delaney are in so many ways.  We can lay Delaney down wide awake in her bed and not hear a peep other than her sucking on her fingers (whichever ones she can get into her mouth), and then Brody is a whole other story.  He is so high maintenance!  I always make sure he is topped off, taken to the bathroom, dry diaper, completely burped, feet covered, right temperature...and he still fusses when I lay him down!  I am hoping that he will learn to soothe himself like she does...but it is really hard for me to stay out of the room and not just go pick him up and rock him or top him off again!  I hate hearing him cry--I know, what mommy does not  hate hearing their baby cry--but I know that I cannot be his pacifier forever, nor do I want to.  He is full and dry and warm, and there is no reason that I need to go in there...  He finally went to bed after about 15 or maybe even 20 minutes of crying...after I went in there and did rock him and top him off once already!  And I went in and patted his tummy to try to comfort him once; I think he cried harder after I went out!  So much for that great advice.  Supposedly his crying will get shorter and shorter...Scott says we did this with Azbrielle really early and she did great.  I vaguely remember this, and she was in her own crib sleeping most of the night at around a month or so.  But Scott also says I fell off the wagon with Weston and would not let him cry at all.  That period of time is a blur in my memory with two babies so close together and Scott on nights all the time at the mine...but I do remember holding Weston and swaying with him right by his crib singing my goodnight song that I made up.  So he is probably very right.  I am trying to save my sanity by teaching the twins how to self-soothe.  We'll see how it goes...