The experiment

Well, with daddy sleeping in a different room and allowing Ty and Gretchen to snuggle all night- however he was up a 4:15am one time, and then 3:00am the next time...

we quickly said, no more, everyone has gotta sleep!

The problem is even though Ty has a double bed, Gretchen is a big dog!

She takes up a lot of space.. and Brian was quickly over that and trying to come up with new solution!

So the full jump wasn't successful, so we thought, how about a mattress on the floor, daddy sleeping in the same room (for now) but not in the same bed... giving everyone more room and maybe this will help Ty adjust to "this change and still feel comfortable to KEEP SLEEPING!!"

And I know, it's only been one night- but yeah, he slept until 7:00AM

This is huge because Brian was not in the same bed, he was on the floor next to the bed, and it was only Ty and Gretchen.

Now let's just hope it repeats, and once we have established a positive pattern of this sleep arrangement, then we can again try Daddy out of the room.

I guess we just underestimated the power of the comfort Ty still needs in order to "sleep"....

but baby steps, baby steps!

it's just nice to see progress in the right direction!!