Five Out Of Five

That's my success rate for putting Bryan down for his naps WITHOUT having to rock him. So I will say this:

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must really say that I'm proud of myself and of that little monkey too. It wasn't as tough as I had imagined to be, no tears even. What I did was after milk in the morning and evening, I will put him on our bed and let him roll around. He would be talking non-stop (bla, bla, kor, kor, grr, grr....it's amazing to hear all the noises that he makes - sounded like I was at the zoo!) and performing acrobts. But each time he tries to get up, I will put him back down on the pillow again. It's not exactly easy because I had to do this for what seemed like forever. After about an hour, he would finally settle down and let me pat him to sleep, while holding my thumb of course.

Although it takes a lot of patience and time, I am very happy that Bryan is able to sleep on his own plus his naps have extended themselves from 1.5hrs to 2hrs! Must be his non-stop babbling.

I don't know whether my MIL will have the same commitment to do this during the weekdays but at least when Bryan is with me during the weekends, he knows that his mummy still loves him although he will have to sleep on his own.