The secret's out and cry it out!

First off, I've been composing several posts but not "posting" them until I was ready to share the news. But now that the word's out (we wanted to share it with friends and family via the every popular "i'm going to be a big brother" t-shirt method which we did over the weekend), I'm going to publicly post those posts.

But yes, Kaua is going to be a big brother! I'm 10 weeks pregnant and due Aug. 5, just one day before my 32 birthday. (I'm hoping this kid doesn't come on my birthday because that'll mean I'll never have a birthday celebration again). While this pregnancy is a blessing it sure is different than my last. With a little one to take care of already, there is definitely a lot less time spent thinking about this pregnancy. Not that my love for this second child will be any less, it's just different now that it's my second. I haven't taken any belly photos, and while I am not quite flat stomached (not sure if I ever was since kaua), I'm not really showing much. I just look pudgy. I dont really feel much nausea, unless I haven't eaten breakfast in the morning (which is almost never, b/c I always eat breakfast). I did feel fatigued more than before these past few weeks, but thankfully, I've gotten my energy back. I also feel what I believe is sciatic nerve pain in my lower left back, almost near my tailbone. I'm not sure if that is sciatic pain, but I think it is. I go back to the docs to confirm all is well with this pregnancy in a couple weeks, so till then, I'm just going on faith that all is well. My first appointment to confirm the pregnancy went well, so the doc had no reason for me to come in for extra appointments.

And on to my next topic of the post. Since there is going to be a number 2 (yup, I've been referring to this child as the ever 'original' "number 2), we've decided that we really need Kaua to sleep on his own in his own crib and in his own room. We are on night number two of sleep training and we're doing a cry it out method with checks. Man-oh-man is it tough! This boy has a scream and he is strong willed. Tonight he didn't go down for about 1 hour of crying, checking, getting him to sleep for a few seconds, then repeating the cycle. Kaua like to stand in his crib to get his point across, so everytime I went back in after letting him cry for a few minutes he was standing. He cried so hard that he pretty much exhausted himself. The last time I went in to lie him back down, he protested halfheartedly and didn't attempt to rise up. He finally fell asleep around 9pm and we started this at about 7:45pm. He also woke up about 3-4 times last night and DH was the champion because he did most of the MOTN waking sessions. He also got up early with kaua to let me sleep since he knows how tired I've been. I'm hoping that tonight will be better, but who knows. DH goes back to work Friday so that'll be my first night alone with the new sleep training pattern. Yikes! But we've resolved to get this habit settled so that we dont have two kids sleeping with us. (our goal is to also not have number 2 sleep with us and we're hoping that since we have our own house, we'll be able to better manage their sleep schedule). I'm definitely not looking forward to the week ahead, but I remember when we weaned him from BFing at night it was a horrible 1 week, then everything went well since. I'm hoping the same happens with this sleep training. I know in the long run, we'll all be much happier.