sleep.

We are having sort of an issue with sleeping in this house.  Miss Ellee just does not like her bed.  for the last few months she would only sleep if she was in bed with us.  Which has exausted me!  I don't sleep very well and I don't think she sleeps very well.  She doesn't sleep through the night.  I have been told that she should be sleeping at least 8 hours in a row but, she doesn't.
Every night she starts out in her bassinet but, no longer than 2 hours later she will end up in my bed.  She will wake up crying.  I try to rock her back to sleep and then put her back in her bassinet but she will just not have it.  So, she ends up in my bed because I'm just so tired and want some sort of sleep.
I have been told by several people I should read the book On Becoming Babywise: giving your baby the gift of night time sleep.  I was told it was amazing and worked wonders on getting babys as young as 6 weeks to sleep through the night.  I ordered it a couple of months ago but, just wasn't finding the time to read it.  Well the other night I was so frustrated about Ellee not sleeping in her bed and through the night that I decided I need to make time to read it.
Last night was the first night that I went along with the bedtime "plan" in the book.  I put her down in her bassinet when she was sleepy...she went to sleep.  But, then an hour later she woke up crying....I cheated at first...I picked her up and held her until she calmed down and then put her back in her bassinet.  She immediatly started crying again.  This time I just got back into bed and let her cry.  I have to say this is the hardest thing ever...listening to her cry was horrible!  But, the book says that there is nothing wrong with letting her cry herself to sleep.  She cried for 20 minutes before she finally went to sleep....and she slept for about 4 hours until she woke up....I say this is progress!  When she woke up she just fussed a little and I let her...she eventually fell back to sleep and didn't wake up for another couple of hours.
Tonight was a little harder....I put her down and she started crying....she cried for probably 45 minutes before she finally fell asleep...I had to leave the room.  We will see how long she will sleep.  The book says it will take about 5 days or so to see her sleep pattern change.  It has you establish a daytime schedule to help with the night time sleeping....we will see if this works....I will keep you all posted.

Sweet dreams!!  I'm off to bed! :)