All-night buffet at our house!

"I like to eat at 4:30pm... and at 7... and 9, 12 and 4!"

Aaron.  Aaron.  Aaron.  You are such a joy!  So smiley.  So content.  You just have one small flaw.  Sleeping at night.  You would think that by child number three, I'd have a magic formula to get babies to sleep through the night, but this child has me mystified.  With JM and Noah, if they cried during the night, I'd go in and give them a pacifier.  With Aaron, he spits the paci out, like it's covered in poison.  Aaron's preferred method of falling asleep and being comforted is nursing.  So, at midnight or 4am when he wakes up from a sleep cycle, he wants the boob.  And, because I am dog tired and don't feel like trying anything else, I give it to him.  I feel mostly grateful, because sometimes he sleeps all night.  I know it could be worse.  JM woke up around the clock every three hours until 7 months!  But, Aaron is all over the place.  Sometimes he has a long stretch in the early evenings.  Sometimes he has a stretch in the time between 12 and 4.  The past two nights he wants to eat around midnight, which is really not working for me, since I an Olympa-holic (Olympic junkie) and have gone to bed at 10:30.  1.5 hours of sleep and then waking up to nurse is not fun.

I do know this.  Both Aaron and I need predictability.  Aaron needs to be able to fall asleep on his own.  The time has come.  At almost 4 months into this, Mama is tired and we know that Aaron can in fact go all night!  He has done it here and there, but just not every night.  Mama is counting down the days until we can do sleep training.  Sorry, Aaron, but soon your all-night buffet is going to close!  And, it's going to be painful at first for both of us, but then it's going to be AWESOME!  Sleep training rules!