On to Something?

We may be on to something here. I have never been a fan of the "cry it out" method; it just broke my heart to hear sweet girl just crying away. Lately, she's been a lot more fussy around nap time, really fighting to go to sleep during the day. Usually we rock her to sleep, but didn't like that we were getting her in a habit of being rocked to sleep. There would be a day when that would have to stop.

Yesterday afternoon, after rocking for like 15 minutes, Kaylynn hadn't fallen asleep (although very content just laying on me). I decided to lay her down and walk away, just to see what happened. She fell right asleep, like she does at night. So this morning, as usual, she starts to fight her nap. She was crying (but not screaming bloody murder!) so I layed her down in the crib, gave her soothie (pacifier), turned on her "go to sleep music thingy" (that needs new batteries), and walked out. As she's crying, I told myself that I'd give her 5 minutes and if she was still wailing, then I'd go back in there. Lo, and behold, she's asleep.

Maybe we are on to something here...